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09/17/21 Snippet, ETERNAL NIGHT OF THE MOON-BEASTS.

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Something moved, down there in the windy dark. No: something grabbed, and pulled, yanking the drone back and forth as its thrusters automatically fired. Those thrusters were designed to clear a space quickly, but Tobias couldn’t pull the drone away. The thing that had grabbed it wasn’t very strong, but it clutched with awful determination.

Tobias shuddered under that horrible grip. Tactile data didn’t come through the drone link, but he could feel the corruption and decay coming through, and trying to drag him down. For one awful moment Tobias was frozen, the nauseating sensory information overwhelming his consciousness — and then he screamed and fired the hopper’s own emergency boost system with a shout that was half scream. Another scream followed as he overrode the thrust safety interlocks with a spastic mental effort which left blood streaming from his nose. That was as irrelevant as the dangers of a full gee’s worth of sudden acceleration on a lunar-adapted body. What mattered was to go.

They’re remaking THE LOST BOYS. Whee.

Too soon, my friends, too soon. As in, everybody still remembers how good THE LOST BOYS was. A remake is just going to be glaringly awkward:

Warner Bros. is moving forward with a feature film reboot of the classic 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys. The reimagining will star Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Jaeden Martell (It). That’s a talented young cast, but there’s no information on who they’ll be playing in the film.

Look, there’s a reason why they never even made a sequel to the original…

INTERRUPTION, OFFSTAGE: Umm, wasn’t there some stuff a few years back?

…I said, THEY NEVER EVEN MADE A SEQUEL TO THE ORIGINAL. YOU ARE MISTAKEN, OFFSTAGE VOICE. Anyway, this all seems rather silly. Why not just remaster and rerelease the first movie? That at least would be a good thing.

I have physical copies of DECISIONS to sell at @FrightReads!

Huzzah!

This is good, because Fright Reads in October is primarily a horror/spooky book show. Oh, fantasy authors are welcome, too, but I want to have my chapbooks on call and ready to be sold. DECISIONS isn’t as flat-out horrific as REVISIONARY was, but I’m pleased by how the Mythos story in it came out. Hopefully I’ll be in a position to move some product next month.

Moe Lane

PS: MORGAN BAROD should be available, too, but those books aren’t coming until next week.

In the Mail: Alan Moore’s PROVIDENCE.

Legendary. The first edition: almost impossible to find, even in digital form. By all accounts, keep out of the reach of children.

You can pick up the softcover Alan Moore / Jacen Burrows PROVIDENCE now, obviously. And they straightened out the digital option. But this is from the Indegogo and I don’t know how much the hardcover version is really worth. I suspect it’s going to be ‘a lot.’ Oh, well, I’m sure my kids will be happy to sell it for a tidy sum, after I’m gone. After they read it, and cringe: one last mortification for them, from beyond the grave…

In the E-Mail: 1637: THE COAST OF CHAOS eARC.

Finally.

THE NEW WORLD FALLS INTO THE RING OF FIRE. All new stories set in the Ring of Fire series, edited by New York Times best-selling series creator Eric Flint.
Check out the eARC here: https://t.co/lMAf2eMqZx pic.twitter.com/atm7Bf9ocx

— Baen Books (@BaenBooks) September 17, 2021

Meh, today was a bye day.

It was a school holiday (Yom Kippur) and there were a ton of chores to do anyway. I need to figure out the best way to be on call if necessary, but sufficiently away to get work done. I suspect I’m going to end up needing to upgrade the Chromebook for that, but I’m reluctant. That’s, like, half a book’s production costs.

Civilian orbital space mission going fine.

…Damn, but I love living in the future sometimes.

The crew of the first all-private orbital space mission has spent Thursday, the first full day of the mission, circling the Earth every 90 minutes at over 17,000 mph.

SpaceX reported the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule with four civilians inside was traveling 363 miles high over Asia as of mid-morning, quickly moving over the massive continent. The altitude is a full hundred miles higher than the International Space Station.

Four civilians in a orbital mission is nice. But what we need is a few years when there’s always at least one civilian mission in orbit all the time. Or four missions. Or as many as we need up there. There’s a legitimate place for NASA, up there. But there are places for everybody else, too.

Via Instapundit.

Oh, nice: @shaenongarrity scores a book deal.

Shaenon, of course, did the cover for my first novel FROZEN RAIN — and will be doing the second Tom Vargas cover, once I’m ready to rev TINSEL RAIN up to speed. I’m glad she’s found something to keep her busy until then:

Karen Wojtyla at McElderry Books has bought world rights to Steam by The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor author Shaenon K. Garrity (l.), illustrated by Emily Holden. The YA graphic novel follows the adventures of Ruby, a “hypercognitive humanoid” designed to solve science’s greatest problems, who escapes from a university lab and finds a job as a barista in a kooky coffee shop, where she finds plenty of problems to solve.

Tweet of the Day, Vicki Embraces The Storm edition.

This will not end quietly. It will probably end hilariously, but not quietly. And as one of the wondering responders to the original tweet noted: Vicki does not, in fact, hate to be this person. This is why she was put on the Earth.

Vicki just ordered spike strips so people will stop using her circular driveway to turn around pic.twitter.com/Fyu4dgvBYW

— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) September 16, 2021

Via @BrianFaughnan.

Had to spend some time thinking about the new story.

I know where it’s going to end up; but I think that 8K words is barely enough time to deal with the monster in front of our hero — what’s that? Yes. Of course there’s a monster. Obviously. I’m not calling it ETERNAL NIGHT OF THE MOON-BEASTS because it’s a cowboy-nurse romance story*.

Anyway, spent time thinking about how to make this scene a real short story instead of, well, just a scene.

Moe Lane

*Do those exist? …Well, they probably do now. You’re welcome?