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Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower is on Kindle Super-Sale!

Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower is only 99 cents for the next week! Set in the same world as FROZEN DREAMS and MORGAN BAROD, this sprawling anthology stretches over 900 years of future post-apocalyptic fantasy history! There are ten stories, including several never before published; and, for fans of FROZEN DREAMS, there’s a new novelette starring Tom Vargas. You won’t need it to appreciate the upcoming TINSEL RAIN, but it won’t hurt!

#commissionearned

Tweet of the Day, Collect Call From Yuggoth edition.

I’d rather Sandy was wrong about this, but his mind is made up. So I don’t know what we’re gonna do. Hide behind Jupiter, maybe?

My theory is – natural sources don't make random noise. It's always cyclical or predictable. Randomness must be from an intelligent source. So Voyage has been compromised by a monstrous alien. Do not try to talk me out of this theory. https://t.co/7bwPeKYvUV

— Sandy Petersen (@SandyofCthulhu) May 20, 2022

Up to Chapter 5 on TINSEL RAIN edits.

Things proceed. Which is good: Balticon isn’t exactly looming, but it’s coming up in a bit more than a week… huh. I really need to get that banner made up next week. And get one of those things to hang it from.

Do your surveys! Check out the TINSEL RAIN preorder store! Brush your teeth! — Oops, sorry, got that mixed up with the daily reminders to my kids.

Tweet of the Day, The Secret Ingredient Is Looting edition.

I was wondering if they were going to be deliberately obtuse in the article…

Ancient Roman bust found for $35 at a Goodwill in Texas https://t.co/vFO1rCAokm pic.twitter.com/iGxz1mtHyB

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 20, 2022

…but no. As the article notes: the bust disappeared in 1944 Germany, and clearly it ended up in some GI’s possession. And since it finally ended up in a Goodwill, it’s probably safe to say that the guy who looted it never told his kids that it might be valuable. I’m going to assume that he took the story to his grave, in fact. It’s a better story that way.

:solemnly: Don’t loot Roman artifacts from Axis locations! Bad GI! Bad! No biscuit!

Moe Lane

PS: …Did anybody check the rest of the stuff at that Goodwill? You know. Just in case.

Getting some work done on DUTIES.

While I’m waiting for edits for TINSEL RAIN, I’d thought I’d work on the upcoming chapbook DUTIES. It’s the usual four-story job, and features some of my earlier work. Which means the stories have to be gone over, fixed up, and fleshed out more. Back when I started, I was struggling sometimes to hit 3K words on one of these. Now 8K is a much more reasonable goal.

05/19/22 Snippet, SCENES FROM THE ZOO.

I wrote 2000 words on this again without trying hard. Shoot, I have the story blocked out now. Weird.

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George was always surprised just how much beef tasted like… well, the word that he had for it was ‘beef,’ because this body he was in couldn’t properly pronounce the language of Home. It was hard to even think in it, because there were scent cues that human noses couldn’t pick up. But from what he remembered, this was a lot like the ‘beef’ he used to eat, in his old body.

Human beings ate it a lot rarer than he had been used to, though. Although, after three years on a five-year Tour, George was starting to see their point. He might try real beef that way, when he went back Home.

“I wish they’d make something DIFFERENT.” :monkey paw’s finger curls:

Well. It’s certainly different.

‘NIGHTBITCH’, starring Amy Adams, will be directed by Marielle Heller and released on Hulu.

The neo-horror thriller follows a woman who is convinced she is turning into a dog. pic.twitter.com/XmKtuQjRvu

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 19, 2022

Via @SonnyBunch, who also wonders how the hell can you even advertise a movie like this without riots on social media. Note that Marielle Heller directed It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, which picked up one Oscar nomination (Best Actor), and Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which picked up three. So, this project is, like, serious. Despite the fact that it sounds like the sort of over-the-top parody film that you’d have a fictional misogynist director make in a novel…

‘Ghosts in the Machine.’

Indeed.

Further commentary is, I feel, largely unnecessary.

Thunderstruck (And BATTLESHIP).

Have I… have I gotten this movie wrong? Because this clip of BATTLESHIP looks awesome.

#commissionearned

Up to Chapter 3 on the second set of TINSEL RAIN edits.

This should go faster; at this point, the idea is to look for sentences that can be simplified, and the occasional missed typo. I have a bad habit of over-using semicolons. Why, there’s even one in this paragraph!

…And now I want to remove it, even though doing so would thoroughly spoil the joke.