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March 7, 2021
S.M. Stirling’s DAGGERS IN DARKNESS now available!
Go here for the e-book, here for the paperback. I have already read SM Stirling’s DAGGERS IN DARKNESS – in fact, I was one of the first readers for the book, and that was one of the top ten things that I got to do last year* – and if you like the ‘Is this whole thing gonna slide into an Orwellian nightmare?’ alt-history that is the Black Chamber series you will find this latest tale quite diverting. I look forward to future books, even if I don’t get to be a first reader again.
Moe Lane
*It was a tougher contest than normal. I mean, I also self-published four books last year. That’s gonna skew the results.
Patreon Microfiction: Ninjaspace.
I feel that if something is called ‘Ninjaspace,’ you should probably be wary of it. Not necessarily afraid, of course. But definitely wary.
Patreon!March 6, 2021
Book of the Week: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest is Alan Moore’s and Kevin O’Neill’s final foray into the world of the League, and I somehow missed it when it came out. Well, actually, there was a pandemic. It’s kind of understandable, really.
PS: How is it? Ummm… very strange? As one might expect, really.
Album of the Week: I Follow the Moon.
It’s by Malukah, who’s done or been involved in three of my absolute favorite videogame-derived songs. I FOLLOW THE MOON is more mainstream, but I’m listening to it now and it’s very neat. Vivacious and soothing.
Moe Lane
March 5, 2021
‘How It Is.’
I like these folks. I can’t listen to them and not cheer up.
Gonna be light posting this weekend.
I’m starting a campaign for my group – shock! In Nomine! It was requested! – Saturday and Sunday I’m talking with a book group (mom’s side of the family). I’ve been good about not nagging family members to buy the books, but they absolutely will buy some now for this. So, gonna be a busy weekend.
I should also get some writing in. Those books ain’t gonna write themselves.
Oh, and Twitter stopped false-flagging the links to this site.
I presume that my habit of reporting it every single time a link was false-flagged eventually flipped a switch somewhere. The trick is to make it consistent, but irregular. Eventually it all piles up to the point where a human has to take a look.
Or so I theorize. Anyway, the links work now. (Now watch, they won’t.)
The week is over!
Massive stress and much difficulty actually doing anything. But today I actually sat down and figured out the plot of the story for the Baen contest. Now that I have, I can actually write the damn thing properly. I also straightened out something with the Portland Fermi Resolution story that had been bugging me.
Oddly, all of that helped. Or maybe not oddly. Clarity is useful.
Moe Lane
PS: My wife also flat-out told me she had a nigh-insurmountable problem with a character in MORGAN BAROD. I said, “Well, what if he was [x] instead of [y]?” and then there was no problem at all. And then I had to admit to myself that she was right. Still, easily fixed.
My thoughts on WandaVision.
I enjoyed it. Quite a lot, actually. Avengers: Age of Ultron gets sneered at, quite a bit – a bit too much, in my opinion – but it set up this series nicely. WandaVision actually mined quite a few of the mid- and bottom- tier MCU flicks for characters and concepts, usually to the show’s benefit. There was some good dialogue written for this show. Also: there was one particular scene that made me almost yell “BEEP BEEP, MOTHERF*CKER” at the screen, so there’s that, too.
Bottom line is: I didn’t waste my time watching WandaVision. I had a good time. Just bear in mind that I watched all the movies. I don’t know how comprehensible it was to people who didn’t, although my wife’s liking the show, too.
