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Sorry, no fiction today. This is because of the release of KSP 1.1 preview, and consequently my spending the entire day testing out its new many-parts and many-mod 64-bit support by resurrecting working versions of my Behemoth, Megalodon, and Surprise Eclipse! 10m-parts-as-liquid-fuel-boosters-for-an-Orion heavy-lifters. I’d apologize, but honestly, I
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So anyway. This is from the being-even-weirder-than-usual department – at least for those of you outside the group of my readers who are also My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fans, a group which to my awareness numbers one. Maybe two. Because, see, if you follow me on Goodreads, or at
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Seen in the referrers, some kind words said here about The Iron Concord. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t link to such things simply to flatter myself – oh, who am I kidding, of course I would – but in this case I’m doing so because in the course of checking out said
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In light of today’s science news, incidentally, it’s probably time for me to repost Yelling at the Sky. (Because now we can hear them.) Edited to add: also, today’s xkcd seems oddly relevant —
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Actually, there’s one other thing I could append to the previous post, with regard to Earth and why it’s probably a good thing that first contact ain’t gonna happen any time soon: As has been pointed out to me, the thing that would truly make the Imperials
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So, we have entered the unofficial Christmas Quiet Period here at the Eldraeverse, in which I am running around doing not-working things for Christmas, leading to a shortage of peaceful writing time, and in which so is everyone else, leading to a noticeable drop-off in reading, by the statistics. So,
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So, if you’re one of the nine people subscribed to /r/eldraeverse, there’s a chance you clicked through from a link post there and came here. Uh, hi. Well, that works then. (If you didn’t come from there, I am delighted to be able to inform you
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In a moment of lunatic whim I seem to have made this – – so, y’know, if you want to talk about this over on Reddit, it’s there.
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This is answering a metaquestion, hence the odd prefix: More of a “how the sausage is made” question than anything relevant in-universe, but what’s your procedure for arranging the Trope-of-the-Day order? I’ve been thinking of using the idea for a world-building / possible writing project of my own that
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…I wrote an entire post. Then I posted it. Then it vanished into thin bytes. Bugger. Apologies, but it’s late, so I’ll be rewriting this tomorrow. Dammit.
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…is today’s meta-post. These are the rules I live by, or at least the rules I write by. One: If it violates the laws of physics or other natural laws in the setting, you can’t have it. On the other hand, you’re entitled to buy all the
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Just to keep everyone informed of what’s going on, things may be a little quiet around here over the weekend, because I’m going to be at our local Dr. Who convention, Time Eddy, with our other business, Foam on the Range. And sadly, I am incapable of crossing