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July 11, 2022
In the Mail: ASPECTS.
I got to page VIII in Neil Gaiman’s intro before I realized I was about to start weeping. So that’s where we are this morning. Damn, I miss Mike. We never met face to face, only knowing each other from a long-defunct SJG in-house forum, and I still miss him terribly. He was one of the best of us, and it’s just not fair.
Anyway, here’s the book (non-Tor edition). Just so you know, going in: ASPECTS is unfinished. Dammit.
#commissionearned
July 10, 2022
No snippet today…
…instead of writing text for 2084, I was actually getting the plot down in actual words and stuff. Which I should have done from the start, but sometimes the trick is getting started. At least I now have a roadmap for the blessed thing.
I might also put it down for a few days, let the thoughts percolate. It’s not like I don’t have anything else to do, honestly.
Patreon!It’s July 10th in the Patreon Pledge Drive!
Patreon!Simply put: I’m trying to get my Patreon up to $200/month. That means an extra 2K words a month, in the form of (right now) an ongoing Space Opera serial adventure (THE BOLD MARAUDER: the work to date can be found here). Patrons already enjoy a monthly short story, monthly game material, and weekly microfiction. It’s a bargain! Sign up today!
Patreon!Tweet of the Day, No Lies Detected edition.
This really is why women live longer. And the only reason my own kids never did this is because we never had that kind of garbage can when they were the right height for it.
It starts really young.
— Deplorable 'Crack Pipe' funder (@SassyMichgnGrl3) July 9, 2022https://t.co/rIeJxr79hU pic.twitter.com/l23Bcn1pN4
Via @MelissaTweets.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Why There’s A Second Contact Team.’
‘Why There’s A Second Contact Team’ doesn’t really go into it, but I bet there’s an entire division of Starfleet that has to go around and smooth out all the rough spots left over when the hotshot loose-cannon heavy cruiser captains are through with this week’s adventure. I wonder whether LOWER DECKS ever got into that. I wonder when I’m going to sit down and watch LOWER DECKS, for that matter. From what I’ve seen, the writers of that show get it about Star Trek.
Patreon! And we have a pledge drive going on this month!
Patreon!#commissionearned
July 9, 2022
‘Uptown Funk.’
#commissionearned
07/09/22 Snippet, 2084.
Guns!
Patreon!Jim told himself that as he grabbed the battle rifle. And the five full magazines the sepoy still had with her. Alex reacted to that. “Better armed than we are, dammit!”
“But not, I think, better trained,” responded Jim. He pushed the selector switch back to single shot. Some unsung saboteur had convinced the Invaders to copy the fully-automatic version of the FN FAL, and damn the recoil. “Where’s the rest of them?” — and, as if on cue, a burst of gunfire went off, far too close to them. Jim ducked behind the cover Alex was using. “Never mind. How can they see anything?”
“They can’t. Invader smoke bombs are good like that. You can even breathe in it. I wonder what species they stole it from.” Alex nodded at the corpse. “Did the seedy have comms?”
“Nothing obvious, not even a phon. So we need to find those other sepoys, before this smoke clears. Maybe the others are better shooters. Speaking of…” he handed Alex the rifle. “I haven’t fired one of these in a year.”
“Tsk, tsk, Sir James.” She shouldered the FAL. “Those shots came from over there. I’ll take point.”
Book of the Week: Aspects.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: ASPECTS was written by John M. Ford but not published during his life, and that is both a good and a bad thing to hear. I am happy to get one last book out of Mike after all, you understand. It was a rough day when we heard that he had suddenly passed. But… I’ve written my own books, since then. I know what a good editor can do for a manuscript. And I worry that a proper editing job wasn’t done here.
But I ordered it in paperback, so I guess we’ll see how it goes.
Video of the Day, Sorry Not Sorry edition.
I really am. And, somehow, I also am not. AHT! AHT! AHT!
God bless America. https://t.co/RzMf2uYej5
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) July 9, 2022
