Question, Rec, State of Me
There was a question I answered on GoodReads about All Systems Red where part of what I said was:
It was originally intended to be a short story (with a sad ending) but while I was working on it I realized it needed to be a little longer to really tell the story. And I decided I wanted to give it a hopeful ending.
In a comment, Marti Dolata asked: Out of curiosity, would you share with us your original sad ending?
The sad ending was going to be that Murderbot died to protect Mensah and the others. But as I was writing I realized I didn't want to do that to the character, and it was a better story if the character lived.
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In Dreaming Bound by J. Kathleen Cheney just came out this week. It's the sequel to Dreaming Death, and the books are fantasy-mysteries in a complex secondary world society, where some people have telepathy and other powers. It's set in a city-state with three different distinct cultures (with different customs, different levels of technology, different everything), about two characters who, through psychic connections, dreams, and an ability to psychically draw images from dead bodies, end up helping the constabulary solve murders, while navigating their own complicated places in their cultural hierarchies.
If you like murder mysteries, fantasy, cultures in conflict and cultures figuring out how to get along, you should check out these books. Also, if you like The Steerswoman books by Rosemary Kirstein, it has the same feel. I really enjoyed the first one and I'm getting ready to read the second soon.
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I'm finishing up the ending of Network Effect and my stress has hit maximum levels. Yesterday I was trying to write and would think of a line and forget it before I could finish the sentence. I'm better today, but augh.
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It was originally intended to be a short story (with a sad ending) but while I was working on it I realized it needed to be a little longer to really tell the story. And I decided I wanted to give it a hopeful ending.
In a comment, Marti Dolata asked: Out of curiosity, would you share with us your original sad ending?
The sad ending was going to be that Murderbot died to protect Mensah and the others. But as I was writing I realized I didn't want to do that to the character, and it was a better story if the character lived.
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In Dreaming Bound by J. Kathleen Cheney just came out this week. It's the sequel to Dreaming Death, and the books are fantasy-mysteries in a complex secondary world society, where some people have telepathy and other powers. It's set in a city-state with three different distinct cultures (with different customs, different levels of technology, different everything), about two characters who, through psychic connections, dreams, and an ability to psychically draw images from dead bodies, end up helping the constabulary solve murders, while navigating their own complicated places in their cultural hierarchies.
If you like murder mysteries, fantasy, cultures in conflict and cultures figuring out how to get along, you should check out these books. Also, if you like The Steerswoman books by Rosemary Kirstein, it has the same feel. I really enjoyed the first one and I'm getting ready to read the second soon.
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I'm finishing up the ending of Network Effect and my stress has hit maximum levels. Yesterday I was trying to write and would think of a line and forget it before I could finish the sentence. I'm better today, but augh.
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