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Apologies
Sorry, folks, but Xenognosis will be out tomorrow, along with whatever I think of for Y. It’s just not gelling for me today.
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You Want This. You Need This.
Those of you who have bought and read a copy of The Core War and Other Stories may have noticed the reference to Kerbal Space Program in the acknowledgements… (Those of you who haven’t – go buy a copy! Right now! Seriously – I’ll wait for you. Got it? Okay.
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Missing The Obvious
Y’know, in asking for prompts there – thanks, by the way, I appreciate them – it occurred to me just now that I’ve really been missing the obvious. It’s Christmas. And even though they don’t have Christmas in the Associated Worlds, it’s still a time of year
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Prompt Me
My muse has been… somewhat cranky and uncooperative recently. (As those of you who have subscribed to my works know, and for which I apologize, but you will still get your full purchase, that I guarantee.). My own fault, really – been allowing too many external things to get in the
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Casting Frustrations
Frustration is coming up with a starship crew for a piece of writing only to realize you’ve recreated half the cast of Firefly. Redo from start.
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Things I Enjoy About Writing SF
Sitting here at 2:30 am trying to figure out if it would even be possible to survive firing the theoretically-possible-to-make-from-off-the-shelf-parts thousands-of-rounds-per-minute multibarrel antimatter-grenade-launcher full auto. (I mean, no-one in their right mind would assemble the thing, much less fire it, even if they could afford the ammunition – but still,
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Eldraeverse Subscriptions #3: The Darëssef (1/2)
And now number three is out – some vignettes explaining the Eldraeic not-caste-but-often-misglossed-as-caste-in-translation system, or rather, people from the various darëssef talking about what it means to be one of them. This is the first four of the eight, with the rest coming later. Original post on this here, if anyone
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Eldraeverse Subscriptions #2: Welcome to the Empire
For those of you who remember this post, number two is out – a metafictional document which, in a fictional universe, someone might have just handed “you” a copy of when you stepped out of the starship. For those of you who don’t remember that post – well, if you’re
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Eldraeverse Subscriptions #1: ElmirĂĂ«n’s Truths
For those of you who remember this post, you might like to know that I’ve just sent out the first of those works of fiction to my subscribers: ElmirĂĂ«n’s Truths, a key excerpt from what is probably the most important historical religious document of Eldraeic (or Imperial) history
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On Star Trek
The Star Trek Federation is a dissolute slaveholding state, living high on the hog while the conveniently non-human and inorganic AI slaves are cut up for scrap when their ship-bodies are obsolete, killed for amusement in holodecks, and aren’t even recognized as sentient. – Peter da Silva (Seriously, as you’
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Grubbing for Money in Textual Places
As long-time readers of my assorted blogs will be aware, I’ve been engaged in large-scale worldbuilding and committing occasional acts of fiction for many a year. Thus far, except for that one competition, it’s been just for my own personal benefit, it being a satisfying creative outlet in
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The Unbearable Lightness of Ferelden
(Strictly, this isn’t about my worldbuilding, but about BioWare’s worldbuilding for their Dragon Age series.  Nonetheless, I think it covers some important territory about worldbuilding in general, and so, it goes in the Relevant category.) So, having pleased some people with my post on Dragon Age and sexuality