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November 14, 2020
11/14/20 Update, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.
Welp, it’s the last weekend. Was I hoping for more from the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter? Yes. Was it a success anyway? Yes. Have I learned some useful things about my expectations, going forward? Yes. Does noting all of this help? …Yes, I think so.
And, yeah, this is a process, not an event. That, I need help remembering.
Day 14, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 30307/60000.
We are halfway there! Huzzah!
Patreon!“SHAAAAAMUS!”
“Come on, Louie,” I said. “I’m right here.” I’m two feet from your mouth, I could have added but didn’t. You had to make allowances for maestros.
Not that Louie — Louis de Vaudreuil to us parvenus — looked like a maestro. He looked like a short, fat man who’d spent his entire life becoming the best laundryman in Cin City. Hell, the man smells like steam and starch by now. And he is the best, if you don’t take points off for excitability.
Like now. “Observe! OBSERVE!” he shouted, pointing at one stain. “What monstrosity, what perversion of the natural order produced this disgusting mark?”
I looked at it. “That one? Zombies.”
He squinted at me. “Necromantic, or abomination of science?” he asked, in a much more normal tone of voice.
“Necromantic.”
“Ah.” He circled it with some chalk, made a cryptic note.
Tweet of the Day, They Found The Guy Who Sucker-Punched Rick Moranis edition.
Reading between the lines, I think the guy might have mental issues.
JUST IN: Police make arrest in violent sucker-punch attack on actor Rick Moranis https://t.co/SPpXrRX5n1
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) November 14, 2020
Via @BaseballCrank.
Book of the Week: Salamis.
Salamis is Harry Turtledove’s latest Hellenistic historical fiction novel. Come, I will conceal nothing from you: the last four years have not been awesome for either Turtledove’s mood, or his demeanor. But the book itself remains free from all of that. Worth checking out, as is the series itself.
November 13, 2020
Anybody playing CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR yet?
I’m not gonna lie: CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR looks tempting, on a meta-level. I don’t play shooters, you see. But I do kind of want to be sent out by the Gipper to covertly fight Commies in a suitably deniable fashion, so I’m not sure.
I also suspect I should wait a few months until the bugs get shaken out of the game. Which would be smart, because I have books to put to be anyway. But since when do I go for extra smartness?
Folks have any thoughts on this?
11/13/20 Update, TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter.
Five days left on the TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter! Soon I can figure out how I’m gonna be doing all of this. Okay, I know how and the general steps involved; but the devil is, as they say, in the details. Everything is moving along well, which is the important thing. December’s gonna be busy, though.
Day 13, TINSEL RAIN NaNoWriMo: 28275/60000.
Back on track, I think. But this is going to be a 80K word book, at minimum. I’m not sure why they picked 50K as the target number.
Patreon!“…Whenever we get a new ambassador, there’s always a list of people at the Castle who ‘get’ to meet them. This time,. your name was on the list, for two nights from now.” Dory looked very unhappy. “And you won’t be attending on her at the Castle, either. You’ll have to go to the Embassy itself. Should I bother to tell you to be careful?”
“If it makes you feel better. Or we can use that head of yours. You’re the hotshot Court Producer: what’s her angle here?”
“Good question.” Dory began to pace, not that there was any room for that. “Well, we know she wants to be seen meeting you.”
“We do?” I said.
Dory didn’t even bother to answer that, so I guess we did know it. “And she doesn’t want the Palace to know what she talked to you about. Got it!” She actually snapped her fingers. “She’s going to try to vamp you.” Only Dory didn’t use the word ‘seduce.’
You hear about people going pop-eyed, but you never see it. You never see yourself doing it, either. Well, all right, you can’t see yourself doing it – but you know what I mean. “That’s insane!” I almost yelled.
“Why?” said Dory, innocently, and then spoiled the effect by giggling. She doesn’t giggle often, so it’s younger than the rest of her. “Sorry, Tom. But it was worth it, just for the look on your face.”
“Funny. Ha. Ha. Ha. I’d rather bed a scorpion,” I said sourly.
“You might end up doing that. I hear Dominion archmages are good at shape-changing. It’d probably be lively, at least.”
“Dory.”
“What, you don’t want to lie back and think of New California?”
“DORY!”
“…
DUST studio to do MOREAU series.
This sounds promising:
Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi label Dust is developing a modern take on the classic H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. The series will be titled Moreau and will be written by Zack Stentz (X-Men: First Class, Thor, Rim Of The World, Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).
“The double helix wasn’t even a twinkle in Watson & Crick’s eye when H.G. Wells first wrote The Island of Dr. Moreau, but his 1896 novel proved astonishingly prescient about how unlocking the secrets of DNA would open the door to humanity playing God with the natural world in strange and frightening ways,” said Stentz. “And now, in the shadow of the CRISPR revolution, it felt like the perfect time to revisit Moreau and bring it into our own 21st Century world of transgenic animals, designer babies and other scientific advances Wells never could have dreamed of. I’m delighted to be working with Eric, Geoff & the Gunpowder & Sky team to welcome a whole new generation to the good doctor’s terrifying island.”
Via Geektyrant. They’re apparently going to gender-swap Moreau’s character, which I’ve decided I’m okay with: as long as there’s this vibe involved, of course. Probably not, but I can hope.
