Martha Wells's Blog, page 62
July 25, 2018
WFC Ballot
In good news, the World Fantasy Ballot is out and it's awesome! Congrats to all the nominees!
https://www.tor.com/2018/07/25/2018-world-fantasy-award-finalists/
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https://www.tor.com/2018/07/25/2018-world-fantasy-award-finalists/
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What I've Been Doing
All of last week and this week so far I've been either busy with the kitchen renovation (which is weird that I've been so busy since I don't do anything but open doors and move things out of the way) or I've been out of town. (I went to visit friends who were having birthdays, and we went shopping, wandered around creek beds, drove to fun places, and flirted with heat stroke.) The kitchen is almost done but now we have to wait an extra week for the painter because I screwed up the scheduling, so I feel dumb.
The WorldCon situation was/is really, really upsetting. It was basically finding out abruptly that some people in the programming team made some of the Hugo nominees feel unwelcome and unwanted and did a crap job on the program, and this was a huge disappointment and really upsetting. After a 25 year career with a lot of ups and downs, I never expected to ever have one Hugo nomination, let alone two, and this has really tarnished the whole experience for me and a lot of others. A Hugo nomination, particularly in the writing categories, is a huge, material boost to a career, and it's especially important for marginalized writers, and even more important for the newer marginalized writers on the ballot who are starting off their careers with this boost in visibility and getting well-deserved accolades for their brilliant work.
Someone who decides to screw up the WorldCon programming for the nominees for whatever reason of their own can't change that, but it does hurt, and hurt a lot, to be made to feel unwelcome at a convention where there is supposed to be a big party to celebrate you.
The convention is trying to fix the situation, and to fix it a lot of the program has to be thrown out and redone. (This is a con with 5000+ people and there's a lot of programming.) Some awesome people, like Mary Robinette Kowal (who does the programming for the Nebula Award conference) and artist goh John Picacio (who ran the Mexican Initiative to bring 50 Mexican-American writers and artists and other creatives to WorldCon) and a team of others are having to drop everything to get this done in time. Which is really incredibly awesome of them to take on this workload to make this better and I know they'll do a good job. But I still really wish it hadn't happened.
ETA: Also wanted to post a link to this: Amal El-Mohtar's WisCon 2017 speech, about Steven Universe, feminism, and conversation: https://marthawells.tumblr.com/post/176263721102/wiscon-guest-of-honour-speech-2017
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The WorldCon situation was/is really, really upsetting. It was basically finding out abruptly that some people in the programming team made some of the Hugo nominees feel unwelcome and unwanted and did a crap job on the program, and this was a huge disappointment and really upsetting. After a 25 year career with a lot of ups and downs, I never expected to ever have one Hugo nomination, let alone two, and this has really tarnished the whole experience for me and a lot of others. A Hugo nomination, particularly in the writing categories, is a huge, material boost to a career, and it's especially important for marginalized writers, and even more important for the newer marginalized writers on the ballot who are starting off their careers with this boost in visibility and getting well-deserved accolades for their brilliant work.
Someone who decides to screw up the WorldCon programming for the nominees for whatever reason of their own can't change that, but it does hurt, and hurt a lot, to be made to feel unwelcome at a convention where there is supposed to be a big party to celebrate you.
The convention is trying to fix the situation, and to fix it a lot of the program has to be thrown out and redone. (This is a con with 5000+ people and there's a lot of programming.) Some awesome people, like Mary Robinette Kowal (who does the programming for the Nebula Award conference) and artist goh John Picacio (who ran the Mexican Initiative to bring 50 Mexican-American writers and artists and other creatives to WorldCon) and a team of others are having to drop everything to get this done in time. Which is really incredibly awesome of them to take on this workload to make this better and I know they'll do a good job. But I still really wish it hadn't happened.
ETA: Also wanted to post a link to this: Amal El-Mohtar's WisCon 2017 speech, about Steven Universe, feminism, and conversation: https://marthawells.tumblr.com/post/176263721102/wiscon-guest-of-honour-speech-2017
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July 17, 2018
Kitchen Stuff
After twenty years of living in this house, we're finally getting some work done on our fifty year old kitchen. We had the countertops and backsplash done earlier this year, and now we're getting new cabinet doors, removing a set of cabinets, and getting a set added. If you have Facebook, you may be able to see the photos there, otherwise I'll try to get some posted here or on Tumblr when the whole thing is done: https://www.facebook.com/martha.wells
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July 16, 2018
New Murderbot Announcement
https://www.tor.com/2018/07/16/more-murderbot-on-the-horizon-announcing-a-new-martha-wells-novel/
In 2017, Murderbot broke onto the SF/F scene with All Systems Red, the first in Martha Wells’ wryly funny, breakneck scifi series about a deadly robotic construct who frees itself from its governor module… in order to double down on grumpily bingeing TV shows on its media feed and studiously avoiding its curious human crew. By turns thrilling and touching, the Murderbot novellas are both a shoot ’em up rollicking space adventure and smart, sneakily intimate portrait of how we construct our identities through storytelling and the surprising places where humanity can be found.
With the initial novella series wrapping up with Exit Strategy in October 2018 (and Rogue Protocol before that in August 2018), Murderbot fans have been clamoring for news on what’s next for scifi’s most relatable robotic construct.
Tor.com Publishing and Senior Editor Lee Harris are proud to announce that Murderbot will return, making its full-length debut in a new novel.
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In 2017, Murderbot broke onto the SF/F scene with All Systems Red, the first in Martha Wells’ wryly funny, breakneck scifi series about a deadly robotic construct who frees itself from its governor module… in order to double down on grumpily bingeing TV shows on its media feed and studiously avoiding its curious human crew. By turns thrilling and touching, the Murderbot novellas are both a shoot ’em up rollicking space adventure and smart, sneakily intimate portrait of how we construct our identities through storytelling and the surprising places where humanity can be found.
With the initial novella series wrapping up with Exit Strategy in October 2018 (and Rogue Protocol before that in August 2018), Murderbot fans have been clamoring for news on what’s next for scifi’s most relatable robotic construct.
Tor.com Publishing and Senior Editor Lee Harris are proud to announce that Murderbot will return, making its full-length debut in a new novel.
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July 13, 2018
Home Renovations
We're getting our kitchen cabinets worked on, after being in this house since the 90s. We got the backsplash and countertop replaced earlier this year, and now we're getting the cabinet doors replaced, one set of awkward and uneven cabinets removed, and one new set added. This is starting Monday, and the new doors are here and stacked up in the dining room. Now I just need to get everything out of the kitchen. It's not going to be finished for a while, since we're waiting for a piece of butcher block to come in for the new cabinet and its doors can't be ordered until after it's built. Also, once everything's done, we have to schedule the painting.
The house is over 50 years old and this kitchen has always looked like it was assembled by amateurs, but when they did the measurements, you could really see how nothing was square or level or centered right. It generally looks fine, because there's an optical illusion effect. From the place where you normally stand when you come in, everything looks fine. It's only when you stand directly across from the cabinet sections that you can see nothing is centered.
We're also finally getting the fence fixed after the storm last month knocked it down.
(Oh, and there's a write up of the Nebula Awards Conference on the Locus web site, with pictures and some detail about the ceremony: https://locusmag.com/2018/07/2018-sfwa-nebula-conference/)
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The house is over 50 years old and this kitchen has always looked like it was assembled by amateurs, but when they did the measurements, you could really see how nothing was square or level or centered right. It generally looks fine, because there's an optical illusion effect. From the place where you normally stand when you come in, everything looks fine. It's only when you stand directly across from the cabinet sections that you can see nothing is centered.
We're also finally getting the fence fixed after the storm last month knocked it down.
(Oh, and there's a write up of the Nebula Awards Conference on the Locus web site, with pictures and some detail about the ceremony: https://locusmag.com/2018/07/2018-sfwa-nebula-conference/)
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July 12, 2018
It's Book Rec Time
(If you've been following my book rec and new book listing posts for a while, you may have noticed this already, but while most book lists emphasize books by popular straight white men, this one emphasizes everybody else. I include books by straight white men, but in about the same percentage that other book lists include everybody else. I also try to highlight books that are less well known.)
(I only link to one retail outlet in the book's listing, but most books are available at multiple outlets, like Kobo, iBooks, international Amazons, Barnes & Noble, etc. The short stories are usually on free online magazines.)
* Terra Nullius edited by Kate Coe and Ellen Croshain
Land belonging to no-one. An anthology of speculative fiction that explores the colonisation of our Solar System and far beyond, where pioneers carve out a new existence under other stars. New worlds and new challenges bring out rich stories filled with alien races and strange technology, but against this backdrop there’s the many facets of human emotion as colonists struggle to make a new home. This is human life on the final frontier.
* Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine
To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a game of cat and mouse with the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. With the world catching fire, and words printed on paper the spark that lights rebellion, it falls to smugglers, thieves, and scholars to save a library thousands of years in the making...if they can stay alive long enough to outwit their enemies.
* Heroine's Journey by Sarah Kuhn
The third book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series completes the "Heroic Trio" as Bea Tanaka joins her sister, Evie, and diva Aveda Jupiter in their quest to free San Francisco from its demon portal problem. If there's one thing Beatrice Tanaka never wanted to be, it's normal. But somehow, her life has unfolded as a series of "should haves." Her powers of emotional projection should have made her one of the most formidable superheroes of all time. And she should have been allowed to join her older sister Evie as a full-fledged protector of San Francisco, pulverizing the city's plethora of demon threats.
* Lost Gods by Micah Yongo
In this extraordinary fantasy debut, a young assassin finds himself hunted by the brothers and sisters he has trained alongside since birth. Neythan is one of five young warriors trained and raised together by a mysterious brotherhood of assassins known as the Shedaím. When Neythan is framed for the murder of his closest friend, he pursues his betrayer – and in so doing learns there’s far more to the Brotherhood, and the machinations of the rulers of the warring kingdoms, than he’d ever thought possible. His journey will lead him across the five realms, from the Forest of Silences to the Ash Plains of Calapaar, and reveal the breaches that lie beneath the world, and the hidden truths of his oath.
* The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.
* Secrets of the Dragon Tomb by Patrick Samphire
Edward and his sisters set out on a perilous pursuit across the Martian wilderness. Together they must evade Sir Titus's minions, battle mechanical nasties, and escape deadly Martian hunting machines. If they can't, they will never uncover the secrets of the dragon tomb and rescue Edward's family.
* Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Amelia dreams of Mars. The Mars of the movies and the imagination, an endless bastion of opportunities for a colonist with some guts. But she’s trapped in Mexico City, enduring the drudgery of an unkind metropolis, working as a rent-a-friend, selling her blood to old folks with money who hope to rejuvenate themselves with it, enacting a fractured love story. And yet there’s Mars, at the edge of the silver screen, of life.
* Preorder: A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna
Raised alone and far away from her home on Kali, Esmae longs to return to her family. When the King of Wychstar offers to gift the unbeatable, sentient warship Titania to a warrior that can win his competition, she sees her way home: she’ll enter the competition, reveal her true identity to the world, and help her famous brother win back the crown of Kali.
* Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation edited by Ken Liu
The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon Award-nominated “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, add up to astrong and diverse representation of Chinese SF. Some have won awards, somehave garnered serioius critical acclaim, some have been selected for Year’s Best anthologies, and some are simply Ken Liu’s personal favorites. To roundout the collection, there are several essays from Chinese scholars and authors,plus an illuminating introduction by Ken Liu. Anyone with an interest ininternational science fiction will find InvisiblePlanets an indispensable addition to their collection.
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(I only link to one retail outlet in the book's listing, but most books are available at multiple outlets, like Kobo, iBooks, international Amazons, Barnes & Noble, etc. The short stories are usually on free online magazines.)
* Terra Nullius edited by Kate Coe and Ellen Croshain
Land belonging to no-one. An anthology of speculative fiction that explores the colonisation of our Solar System and far beyond, where pioneers carve out a new existence under other stars. New worlds and new challenges bring out rich stories filled with alien races and strange technology, but against this backdrop there’s the many facets of human emotion as colonists struggle to make a new home. This is human life on the final frontier.
* Smoke and Iron by Rachel Caine
To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a game of cat and mouse with the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. With the world catching fire, and words printed on paper the spark that lights rebellion, it falls to smugglers, thieves, and scholars to save a library thousands of years in the making...if they can stay alive long enough to outwit their enemies.
* Heroine's Journey by Sarah Kuhn
The third book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series completes the "Heroic Trio" as Bea Tanaka joins her sister, Evie, and diva Aveda Jupiter in their quest to free San Francisco from its demon portal problem. If there's one thing Beatrice Tanaka never wanted to be, it's normal. But somehow, her life has unfolded as a series of "should haves." Her powers of emotional projection should have made her one of the most formidable superheroes of all time. And she should have been allowed to join her older sister Evie as a full-fledged protector of San Francisco, pulverizing the city's plethora of demon threats.
* Lost Gods by Micah Yongo
In this extraordinary fantasy debut, a young assassin finds himself hunted by the brothers and sisters he has trained alongside since birth. Neythan is one of five young warriors trained and raised together by a mysterious brotherhood of assassins known as the Shedaím. When Neythan is framed for the murder of his closest friend, he pursues his betrayer – and in so doing learns there’s far more to the Brotherhood, and the machinations of the rulers of the warring kingdoms, than he’d ever thought possible. His journey will lead him across the five realms, from the Forest of Silences to the Ash Plains of Calapaar, and reveal the breaches that lie beneath the world, and the hidden truths of his oath.
* The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.
* Secrets of the Dragon Tomb by Patrick Samphire
Edward and his sisters set out on a perilous pursuit across the Martian wilderness. Together they must evade Sir Titus's minions, battle mechanical nasties, and escape deadly Martian hunting machines. If they can't, they will never uncover the secrets of the dragon tomb and rescue Edward's family.
* Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Amelia dreams of Mars. The Mars of the movies and the imagination, an endless bastion of opportunities for a colonist with some guts. But she’s trapped in Mexico City, enduring the drudgery of an unkind metropolis, working as a rent-a-friend, selling her blood to old folks with money who hope to rejuvenate themselves with it, enacting a fractured love story. And yet there’s Mars, at the edge of the silver screen, of life.
* Preorder: A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna
Raised alone and far away from her home on Kali, Esmae longs to return to her family. When the King of Wychstar offers to gift the unbeatable, sentient warship Titania to a warrior that can win his competition, she sees her way home: she’ll enter the competition, reveal her true identity to the world, and help her famous brother win back the crown of Kali.
* Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation edited by Ken Liu
The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon Award-nominated “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, add up to astrong and diverse representation of Chinese SF. Some have won awards, somehave garnered serioius critical acclaim, some have been selected for Year’s Best anthologies, and some are simply Ken Liu’s personal favorites. To roundout the collection, there are several essays from Chinese scholars and authors,plus an illuminating introduction by Ken Liu. Anyone with an interest ininternational science fiction will find InvisiblePlanets an indispensable addition to their collection.
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July 9, 2018
The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol
It's less than a month now to The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol, the next 160+ page novella in the series. It comes out on August 7, 2018.
Preorders really help and are really appreciated, and reviews and ratings for the previous novellas in the series really help and rea really appreciated.
SciFi’s favorite crabby A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah’s SecUnit is.
And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.
Martha Wells’ Rogue Protocol is the third in the Murderbot Diaries series, starring a human-like android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk.
Read Rogue Protocol and find out why Hugo Award winner Ann Leckie wrote, "I love Murderbot!"
Cover art by Jaime Jones, cover design by Christine Foltzer.
Available at:
Barnes & Noble, Amazon US and all other Amazons, Waterstones, Powells, Mysterious Galaxy, Chapters Indigo, BooksaMillion, Book Depository, and from a local independent bookseller through Indiebound.
ebook (DRM-free): Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, iBooks, Amazon Kindle, Kindle UK, Kindle Canada, Kindle France, Kindle Germany, Kindle Spain, and all other Kindle retailers.
Audiobook: Recorded Books, Audible.com, Audible UK, and Amazon.com, narrated by Kevin R. Free.
eBook and AudioBook available on iTunes
Excerpt:
I have the worst luck with bot-driven transports.
The first one had let me stow away in exchange for my collection of media files, with no ulterior motives, and had been so focused on its function that there had been hardly more communication between us than you'd have with a hauler bot. For the duration of the trip I had been alone with my media storage, just the way I like it. It had spoiled me into thinking all bot transports would be like that.
Then there was Asshole Research Transport. ART's official designation was deep space research vessel. At various points in our relationship, ART had threatened to kill me, watched my favorite shows with me, given me a body configuration change, provided excellent tactical support, talked me into pretending to be an augmented human security consultant, saved my clients' lives, and had cleaned up after me when I had to murder some humans. (They were bad humans.) I really missed ART.
Then there was this transport.
It was also bot-driven, no crew, but it carried passengers, mostly minimum to moderately skilled tech workers, human and augmented human, traveling to and from transit stations on temporary work contracts. This was not an ideal situation for me, but it was the only transport going in the right direction.
Like bot-transports that were not ART, it communicated in images and had allowed me onboard in exchange for a copy of my stored media. Because the manifest was in the transport's feed and so available to the other passengers, I asked it to list me for the duration of the voyage in case anybody checked. There was a field in the passenger form for occupation and in a moment of weakness, I told it I was a security consultant.
Transport decided that meant it could use me as onboard security and started alerting me to problems among the passengers. I was an idiot and started responding. No, I don't know why, either. Maybe because it was what I was constructed to do and it must be written into the DNA that controls my organic parts. (There needs to be an error code that means "I received your request but decided to ignore you.")
Initially, it had been pretty easy. ("If you bother her again I will break every individual bone in your hand and arm. It will take about an hour.") Then it had gotten more complicated as even the passengers who liked each other started to get into fights. I spent a lot of time (valuable time I could have been viewing/reading my saved entertainment media) arbitrating arguments I didn't give a shit about.
Now it was the last cycle of the trip, all of us somehow having managed to survive, and I was heading into the mess compartment to break up yet another fight between idiot humans.
Transport didn't have drones, but it did have a limited range of security cameras, so I knew the positions of everybody in the galley/mess area before the door slid open. I strode across the room, through the maze of shouting humans and overturned tables and chairs, and stepped between the two combatants. One had picked up a food utensil as a weapon and in one careful non-finger-ripping-off twist I had it, instead.
You would think the person they knew as a security consultant slamming in and disarming one of them would cause everyone to stop and reassess their priorities in this situation, but oh, you would be wrong. They staggered back, still screaming profanity at each other. The others in the room switched from shouting profanity at the combatants to shouting at me, all trying to tell me different versions of what had happened. I yelled, "Shut up!"
(The good thing about pretending to be an augmented human security consultant instead of a construct SecUnit is that you can tell the humans to shut up.)
Everybody shut up.
Then, still breathing hard, Ayres said, "Consultant Rin, I thought you said you didn't want to come back up here--"
The other one, Elbik, was pointing dramatically. "Consultant Rin, he said he was going to--"
I'd had Transport list my name as Rin on the manifest though I'd used Eden at RaviHyral. I was fairly certain RaviHyral transit station security had no reason to associate that identity with any sudden deaths taking place on a private shuttle, and even if they had, wouldn't pursue anyone out of their jurisdiction unless contracted to. But it had seemed best to change it.
The others, starting to come out from behind tables and hastily assembled chair barricades, all tried to chime in, and there was more pointing and shouting. This was typical. (If it wasn't for the shows I download from the entertainment feed, I would have thought the only way most humans knew how to communicate was by pointing and shouting.)
The objective twenty-six cycles of the journey had felt like a subjective two hundred and thirty, at least. I had tried to distract them. I had copied all my visual media into Transport's passenger-accessible system so it could be played on all their display surfaces, which at least kept the crying to a minimum (for children and adults). And, granted, the fighting had decreased dramatically after the first time I pinned someone to a wall with one hand and established a clear set of rules. (Rule Number One: do not touch Security Consultant Rin.) But even that usually left me standing there helplessly listening to their problems and their grievances against each other, against various corporations they had been fucked over by (yeah, tell me about it), and against existence in general. Yes, listening to it was excruciating.
Today, I said, "I don't care."
Everybody shut up again.
I continued, "We have, at most, six hours left before this transport will dock. After that, you can do whatever you want to each other."
That didn't work, they still had to tell me about what had caused the latest fight. (I don't remember what it was, I deleted it from memory as soon as I could get out of the room.)
They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn't want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.
A SecUnit's job is to protect its clients from anything that wants to kill or hurt them, and to gently discourage them from killing, maiming, etc., each other. The reason why they were trying to kill, maim, etc., each other wasn't the SecUnit's problem, it was for the humans' supervisor to deal with. (Or to willfully ignore until the whole project devolved into a giant clusterfuck and your SecUnit prayed for the sweet relief of a massive accidental explosive decompression, not that I'm speaking from experience or anything.)
But here on this transport, there was no supervisor, just me. And I knew where they were going, and they knew where they were going, even if they were pretending all their anger and frustration was caused by Vinigo or Eva taking an extra simulated fruit pac. So I listened to them a lot and pretended to be launching major investigations into incidents like who left a cracker wrapper in the galley restroom sink.
They were heading to a labor installation on some shitshow world. Ayres told me they had all sold their personal labor for a twenty-year hitch, with a big payout at the end. He was aware it was a terrible deal, but it was better than their other options. The labor contract included shelter, but charged a percentage for everything else, like food consumed, energy use, and any medical care, including preventative.
(I know. Ratthi had said using constructs was slavery but at least I hadn't had to pay the company for my repair, maintenance, ammo, and armor. Of course, nobody had asked me if I wanted to be a SecUnit, but that's a whole different metaphor.)
(Note to self: look up definition of metaphor.)
I had asked Ayres if the twenty years was measured by the planetary calendar or the proprietary calendar of the corporation who maintained the planet, or the Corporation Rim Recommended Standard, or what? He didn't know, and hadn't understood why it mattered.
Yeah, that was why I was trying not to get attached to any of them.
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July 6, 2018
Friday
I have various news I still can't post yet, which is always frustrating.
In other news: I'm still building my patio, very slowly. The arthritis makes me really cautious about trying to do too much. Our fence is still down after the storm a few weeks ago and were sort of sharing the neighbor's dogs. I like the way they improved Duolingo. (It probably was an oversight that you could be that far into the lessons and they still hadn't taught you the words "where" and "bathroom" yet.) I'm not going anywhere this weekend, yay!
And now I need to get to work.
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In other news: I'm still building my patio, very slowly. The arthritis makes me really cautious about trying to do too much. Our fence is still down after the storm a few weeks ago and were sort of sharing the neighbor's dogs. I like the way they improved Duolingo. (It probably was an oversight that you could be that far into the lessons and they still hadn't taught you the words "where" and "bathroom" yet.) I'm not going anywhere this weekend, yay!
And now I need to get to work.
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July 3, 2018
Couple of links
A couple of things:
* A GoFundMe for an online fandom friend who is in a tight spot and needs a little help with car repairs:
https://www.gofundme.com/39qkup-car-repairs
* GetHerElected
Get Her Elected (GHE) is an initiative where people from all over the world offer their skills pro bono to progressive women candidates running for office at all levels of U.S. government. Skill sets from our current volunteers include everything from writing, editing, and graphic design to web design, data analysis, and fundraising strategy—and that’s just the start. By having people with these backgrounds fill in these gaps for no charge, we level the playing field and allow progressive women candidates to focus on bigger issues within their campaigns.
https://www.getherelected.com/about
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* A GoFundMe for an online fandom friend who is in a tight spot and needs a little help with car repairs:
https://www.gofundme.com/39qkup-car-repairs
* GetHerElected
Get Her Elected (GHE) is an initiative where people from all over the world offer their skills pro bono to progressive women candidates running for office at all levels of U.S. government. Skill sets from our current volunteers include everything from writing, editing, and graphic design to web design, data analysis, and fundraising strategy—and that’s just the start. By having people with these backgrounds fill in these gaps for no charge, we level the playing field and allow progressive women candidates to focus on bigger issues within their campaigns.
https://www.getherelected.com/about
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Murderbot in Translation
I keep forgetting to mention it here, but The Murderbot Diaries will be coming out in a bunch of different countries soon:
Turkish Edition: Ithaki Yayinlari
Hebrew Edition: Nova Press
Hungarian Edition: Fumax
Japanese Edition: Tokyo Sogensha Co., Ltd
Spanish Edition: Alethé
There's actually two more pending, so I'll post about that when I get the word that they're final.
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Turkish Edition: Ithaki Yayinlari
Hebrew Edition: Nova Press
Hungarian Edition: Fumax
Japanese Edition: Tokyo Sogensha Co., Ltd
Spanish Edition: Alethé
There's actually two more pending, so I'll post about that when I get the word that they're final.
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