The president and council of the Free Selkie Republic had been remarkably easy to convince of the need to obtain a shuttle, once they had decided that he was to be trusted and the Kemonomimi had to be warned, Richard reflected as he waited for the sub to surface.Hmmm. That sentence really could be a …
Splendid news! John C. Wright has agreed that Marseguro qualifies me as a bona fide member of his fledgling Space Princess movement. Our motto: “Nobody Likes to Read About the Beautiful Daughters of Elected Officials!” Which Emily Wood is not. (Her mother is on the ruling council, but she wasn’t actually elected to it.) I …
Emily woke to the faint brightening of the cabin that signaled morning in the Free Republic, and for a moment wondered where she was; then smiled as she remembered.Words yesterday: 2,414Total words (more or less): 61,509Percentage complete: 51.3 It’s all downhill from here! And again, I suspect I’m going to come in closer to 100,000 …
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Robert Silverberg is 74 today. His children’s book Revolt on Alpha C is one of the first science fiction books I can remember reading (it was his first novel, published in 1955, four years before I was born). Much, much later, I learned quite a bit about sex I didn’t previously know by reading his …
After what seemed both an eternity and all-too-brief an instant, Emily disentangled herself from Richard and stood back, grinning at him.Words yesterday (more or less): 2,164Total words: 59,102Percentage complete: 49.3
The indefatigable Don D’Ammassa reviews Marseguro and isn’t entirely happy with it: Although this was well enough written, I found myself uncomfortable with elements of the story. The fanaticism of the theocrats seemed a bit forced, even though current events should have convinced me that their excesses are entirely plausible. I think my problem is …
Just over 138 years ago, on Thursday, November 4, 1869, the prestigious science journal Nature published its first issue. Now Nature’s entire archives have been digitized and made available online. (Not for free, alas: although you can browse the contents, you have to pay for complete articles.) Back in 1991, when I was communications officer …
Why didn’t Victor Hansen just remove our violent tendenices, while he was at it? she thought.Words over the weekend: 3,279Total words: 56,925Percentage complete: 47.4
This is cool: the great science magazine Nature is putting its entire archives, all the way back to issue one, number one in 1869 (which I wrote a column about years ago when I came across a facsimile copy at the Saskatchewan Science Centre) online. You can browse it to see what’s in each issue, …
The motley fleet of ships and boats carrying The Avatar’s remnant force of Holy Warriors reached the mainland at first light.Words today: 3,232Total thus far: 53,633Percentage complete: 44.7 (for 120,000 words), 53.6 (for 100,000) It’s beginning to feel like the book will come in closer to 100,000 than 120,000 words, which is fine. It’ll probably …
“We’ve got to rescue him,” she said. Words today: 2,984Total thus far: 50,405Percentage complete: 42 A pretty good day: past the 50,000-word mark, and thus 42 percent of the way to 120,000 words (but remember, I’m only contracted for 100,000, and if that’s what my total ends up being, I’m past halfway!). I hope to …
