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January 26, 2021
BEHOLD! The TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION proof.
TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION (that link is to the Kindle).
The maps look good, so I’ll do one last print check and then start the approval process for the physical books. Huzzah! Hopefully I’ll be able to get the actual books for signing and sending out soon.
January 25, 2021
Tentative 2021 Book Schedule.
I want to get this down, because I’ve been meaning to. Right now I have three projects in mind:
MORGAN BAROD (Tentative release date: June 2021). This novel is currently in alpha read territory, and it will probably need beta readers soon. I’m generally happy with wordcount (80K).TINSEL RAIN (tentative release date: late 2021 or early 2022). This novel needs serious work (it’s currently at 60K), and I expect I’ll be working on it a bit while I wait for the alpha readers to do their magic.Another chapbook (Summer or Fall 2021). I have a bunch of stories to pick from; the real trick is finding an artist. And, I guess, paying for the art.So there’s where we’re at.
This is an awesome Werner Herzog interview on skateboarders.
Today was a bit of a dumpster fire – the Internet was giving us grief all day, which is more of a problem now than it was in the Time Before – but this is… nice. Not in a wishy-washy sense, but in an ‘everybody’s chill and cool right now and man but I’d like to grab a beer with Werner Herzog.” He seems like a Righteous Dude.
I am once again fascinated by Werner Herzog. I’ve never had an affinity for skateboarding but his take here has completely opened me up to its poetry – perseverance through failure. https://t.co/53JSmOQ721
— NerdingAround (@NerdAround) January 25, 2021
01/25/2021 Snippet, THE WAR OF OLD MAN TYLER.
Yeah, the short story got away from me. Again.
Patreon!The band had about two dozen men and women in it, with about half as many horses — and three times as many guns. American guns, too, which made Nacho raise his eyebrows and Bailey shrug. “Not me,” he said, more or less truthfully. “Never seen these folk before. Maybe they raided a caravan.”
“Or maybe you Yankees slipped some guns to the Apache, with hints to have them ‘dropped’ somewhere helpful when they raided south of the border.” Nacho said that slightly sourly, which made Bailey give him a quick glance. This was not the place for a quarrel.
“I don’t know, friend. Maybe we did, maybe we didn’t. Either way, they’re better off with ‘em, don’t you think?”
Nacho shook himself. “Sorry. You are right, but…”
“But?”
“But they would not need the guns if your people had only shot more rebels.”
My knee-jerk reaction to a EA/Bioware-less KOTOR 3.
But that’s the rumor: there’s gonna be a KOTOR 3, and it’s not gonna have either the Empire or the First Order making it (or Morgoth/Sauron, if you’d prefer that metaphor instead). But is it true? …Maybe. There’d be money in it, at least. The Mouse likes money.
Tweet of the Day, It’s Just So Damned Beautiful edition.
It truly is.
Alas, the one bad thing about there not being a USSR anymore is that you can't put a metaphorical thumb in the metaphorical eye of the USSR. pic.twitter.com/sdbnQ5TVFo
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) January 25, 2021
January 24, 2021
01/24/2021 Snippet, THE WAR OF OLD MAN TYLER.
This is starting to feel like a book. Alternate history books set in the 1860s are bad to write. And not for the reasons you think! They’re bad because of the buttons. God help you if you get the uniform buttons wrong. God help you, because nobody else will…
Patreon!If Nacho had similar concerns over his guns, he hid it well. “Tell me, Bailey,” he asked as they rode, “have you ever dealt much with bandits?”
“A few,” Bailey said, evenly. “Just never for long. Houston ain’t a settled-down place but we don’t let folks run too wild, either.”
“That’s what I thought. Up in Houston, you faced lawbreakers, thieves, murderers, people who cannot live in peace. Men with nothing to die for.” Nacho took a swig of water (Bailey reflexively followed suit. “Friend, we will not be dealing with those kinds of bandits. They will die so that their children might be free.
“And these are hard men — and some women, too; they can tell their own tales of outrages — who have lost much since the time of their fathers. They hate your former countrymen, but they do not love Yankees, and they do not have faith in the Republic, either. The band we are going to are not fools, so they will help us, to their profit. But they are not our boon companions. They will barely be allies.”
“Foolish of ‘em,” Bailey said. “I’m sorry, Nacho, but that is the truth. I understand why they wouldn’t feel obliged to tell one kind of gringo from another.” Especially since the USA grabbed everything from Texas to California and snapped up Cuba, too, he thought. Hell, you probably don’t like that much, either. “But Mexico and the Yucatan’s still in there, swinging. Who else do they got to watch their backs?”
“Well, as I said: these fighters, they are not fools. We will get their aid… once they know the price has been paid for it. Their word is good that way.”
I am suspicious of this GODZILLA VS. KONG trailer.
It seems determined to make me root for Kong, which is of course ridiculous. I have nothing against the personalized metaphor for American involvement in Southeast Asia, but I am firmly on the side of the personalized metaphor for the Pax Americana. I can only assume that something – probably the personalized metaphor for… ah, well, people are holding out hope for Mechagodzilla, so whatever that metaphor is – is responsible for the problem, and once fixed Kong and Godzilla will turn around and pound the crap out of that.
Moe Lane
PS: This and Wonder Woman ’84 (which I still like!) and Justice League is why we got HBO Max. Although the rest of the DC stuff is popular with my wife and kids.
