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First Starship orbital tests in January.

But let me translate Elon Musk, here:

It was announced earlier this month that Elon Musk, the creator of SpaceX, will make an effort to launch his company’s futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship into orbit in January, but he is not optimistic about the outcome of that maiden test flight.

(Via Instapundit) Translation: that sumbitch gonna blow up. Which is why there’s not going to be a single thing on that prototype that won’t be a sensor to help engineers better understand why it blew up. Fortunately for Musk, by now it’s understood that SpaceX routinely incinerates a few rockets on its way to the next step. That has proven to be quite valuable to his long-term plans…

12/01/21 Snippet, TINSEL RAIN.

A smart one.

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“I want to know everything, Mr. Vargas.” The Banshee sipped her drink. “So start lying to me.”

“Sure,” I immediately replied. “There’s a plot by the other Archmages to go after you before you can get settled down here. Probably you’ll get assassins in the night. Unless you strike first.”

“Not bad,” she allowed after a moment, “but I said to lie. High-probability guesses and basic common sense I can do myself. You’re the barbarian from a tribe of shrieking storytellers; surely you can come up with at least mildly diverting nonsense.”

My gut doesn’t always like me, or maybe it just enjoys being punched. I ain’t judging. But it doesn’t try to get me killed, so I listened when it told me to push things a little: “All right. The Castle’s cleaning up after the Royals. They got a little careless with their toys, and I’m the trained seal, barking away and blowing the horn so the rabble won’t figure it out.”

“Much better, Mr. Vargas.” She actually sounded pleased. “That is exactly the nonsense you people would spew, for the usual fools we’ve sent. They’d eat it up with a spoon, the smug buffoons. And they’d probably compliment themselves on coming up with such a clever ploy of inadvertently getting the truth out of you. Because who would dare lie to a Dominion ambassador?”

The “THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS” THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS trailer.

I was going to do an elaborate meta-joke about THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS, but I got it out of my system with the title. Really dodged a bullet there, huh?

…This might not suck?

12/01/21 Snippet, THE DOOM THAT CAME TO LUNA CITY.

I like the title, if I do say so myself.

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Heinlein Station
American Administrative Zone
Luna
2103 AD

Once upon a time, Tobias would have glared at the broken bit of gadgetry as if he thought doing so hard enough would magically put it back together. These days, he didn’t dare. Doing so might have actually worked, and then things would start getting so much worse.

Besides, he was too tired to glare. They all were.

“All right, Major. What do we need to do about this?” he said.

Major Abhiti Kazimi raised an eyebrow. “Just like that, sir? I was expecting to have to get you up to speed.”

“Why bother, Abby? It’s broke, we must need it for something, and if we had a spare already you wouldn’t be bothering me. You’re the chief engineer, God help you: so go ahead and tell me what we need to do to unstick this situation. You’re here in person, so I already know I won’t like hearing it.”

Yeah, I got nothing.

I am tapped, slacked, and ready for the rack. And tomorrow I have to bite the dang bullet and start up the TINSEL RAIN hurdy-gurdy. I put down money for the cover. I gotta get going on fixing up that puppy, now.

Open thread.

The second “Remember RUMBLE” RUMBLE trailer?

I was not aware that WWE’s animation studio produced RUMBLE. Of course, I was also not aware that the WWE had an animation studio. Although there’s no reason it shouldn’t, I guess.

Anyway, this may be more of a wrestling film than I thought. Works for me.

The November Patreon stuff is up!

I kinda wish NaNoWriMo wasn’t in November.

MONSTER WAR DOOM, PART 6: THEMES! RPG stuff! This may be the last entry in that particular campaign world!Chapter 1 of GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND! Sci-fi horror! Patreon!

Tweet of the Day, Oh God This Makes Me Happy edition.

Classical reference.

Nicolas Cage to Star as Dracula in Universal Monster Movie ‘Renfield’ (Exclusive) https://t.co/iTJHOUei5s

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 30, 2021

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Video of the Day, I Am Glad These Glorious Lunatics Exist edition.

(Via Fark) We need people who can say, Do you know what the world needs? A Power Loader, that’s what the world needs. And God bless them for that.

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My illustrated chapbook DECISIONS is *not* on sale.

But the novel super-sale is proving to be successful enough that I thought I’d mention DECISIONS again, too. My latest chapbook, and it has some of my best stories in it. And the price is right!

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