This is a copy-paste of my Goodreads review of "WWW:Wake" by Robert J. Sawyer ( Read more... )

I've been working on this Traipah story called "Culture Shock," which is about humans moving to Traipah without enough preparation, and finding it very difficult to adjust. I have the human characters hailing from a colony world that's a lot like our society now, so they're like a stand-in for us. I've been having fun remembering existing Traipahni ( Read more... )

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I just had a funny thought: An Ah'Koi Bahnis, new to Earth, doesn't really understand the concept of gender, keeps using the wrong pronouns. Gets frustrated at one frustrated human and goes "Well how do you expect me to know which you are? One guidebook says males have a grahbihn and females have a duen, but it is rude to ask. Another guidebook ( Read more... )

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The OryCon scifi convention is tomorrow! Brooke has paid my way in, so I get to go! WEEEEEEEE!!!

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The people who made Babylon 5 always did an excellent job on the effects. Even when you could tell it was CGI, it didn't matter, because it was good enough that the excellent story made us ignore the effects. (Though I have had a lot of fun, this time around, spotting who amongst one race played another. Like the Narn character who was obviously ( Read more... )

One of the things I love about the Babylon 5 series is that nothing is simple. At first, we're led to believe that the Vorlons are lawful good and the Shadows are chaotic evil. And then things get more complex. It turns out the Shadows, while still evil, are... hard to classify. They believe in furthering evolution through conflict. Whereas the ( Read more... )

The Ah'Koi Bahnis have a long, retractable, prehensile penis that looks like a very large green roundworm. The Centauri males of Babylon 5 also have a large, retractable, prehensile penis, which looks a little like a squid tentacle. I find myself in the strange position of wondering what a, uh... "swordfight" between the two would look like ( Read more... )

Traipahni social group types to be aware of:

Guilds (AKA Jiijahnglah) - Guilds are a bit like corporations, except that Traipahni society would never tolerate most of the crap that Earth corporations (at least in the 20th and 21st centuries) do. All profits of all Guilds are mandated by Traipahni society to go into one of three things, if not all ( Read more... )