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(Alternate words: None.) “Okay, now spin the central kitchen island three-quarters. Good. Now back it up half the width of the range.” Minil Cendriane looked around the floor of her house, checking gaps and eyelines revealed by the AR overlay. “No, that still doesn’t clear enough space. Save this
trope-a-day
Unreliable Expositor: My version of the Imperial Repository of All Knowledge is exactly, 100% correct, complete, and conclusive. Despite their best efforts, however, the Repository of All Knowledge isn’t quite that good, and anything any individual person, publication, or professor in-universe may know comes with that same lack of
blogging from a to z
(Alternate words: Undeath, universal, ugly, ultimate.) “I’m not sure I understand why you’ve come to see me.” “As I said, I’m the undertaker for Cantrel Steamweaver, of Socket City, Golden Groves.” “I have had some dealings with him in the past, but -” “Ah. I see. Perhaps
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Tastes Like Purple: Comes along with switching bodies and having sensory modalities available to you that aren’t part of your natural heritage. Until your mind and brain both adapt to the new information they’re receiving, you tend to spend some time staggering around babbling about how everything tastes
blogging from a to z
(Alternate words: Tear, terms, thinking, tutorial. Actually, I have a pretty good idea for tutorial, but the darn thing just won’t gel. So you get this bit of silliness instead.) The music was pounding again – not that it ever stopped – on the main floor of Polythalience, enough so that
governance
(Still working on actual posts, but here, have a snippet…) “One perpetual confusion among external Empire-watchers is the confusion between the Ministries of Throne and State and the Shadow Ministries – for example, between the Ministry of Harmonious Serenity, which is a duly empowered governance instrumentality and enforcer of rights and
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Screw Yourself: A remarkable percentage of people who have access to forking technology try this at least once or twice, with or without gender-flip, just to decide if that qualifies as sex or masturbation. (Hint: it’s sex. Narcissistic, quasi-incestuous, oddly symmetrical sex.)
blogging from a to z
(Alternate words: Sports, singularity, safety, spectrum.) The world was a blank. An infinite plane stretched out in all directions, hard and smooth, white as polished ivory… only visible in context to the pure, bright, unstained white of the sky. No shadows fell, for vision here was observer-dependent, images radiating from
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Ramscoop: The classic ramscoop as a starship drive is not a terribly common design feature, since they are (for reasons explained at Atomic Rockets) awfully draggy and power-hungry and thus limited in top speed. Much more common is using the technology as a magnetic sail brake to decelerate a fusion
blogging from a to z
(Alternate words: range, relay, racing, and reinvent. In this case, repair was chosen because it was the only word which was submitted independently twice. With special thanks to Jennifer Linsky on G+, whose article post finally let me break a week-long creative block.) Spiders. Why did it have to be
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Quirky Town: Outside the arcologies, they’re all quirky towns, just about. Most of them, as you might expect, were founded by people with ideas. And then the people with ideas had memetics to help reinforce community and the local idea, which then gets to interact with the cast of
blogging from a to z
(Alternate words: none.) The zeppelin’s motors whispered as it drifted slowly away through the dusty butterscotch sky, the setting sun glinting off its outriggers. Lumenna hung just above the horizon, casting long shadows on the ruddy dunes, while Súnáris shone bright near the zenith. And I shivered in the