What's in a Title?
So I'm doing some pondering about the next two FYS releases. As the plan currently goes, I'm going to divide them into separate collections of my various shorts, the first in the period just before and during the Groupmind Uprising, and the second after everyone wakes up on the Ring.
At the moment, the tentative title for the first collection is The Fall of Man. Generic, but I can live with it.
The best I can come up with for the second will be The Rise of the Ring. Which I don't like for two reasons. One, it's alliterative, which tends to annoy me for no rational reason. The second is that the Ring isn't a character or an iconic backdrop, in the way that Niven's Ringworld was. The thrust of the stories are about Man, the Morphs, and the Groupmind. And Rise of the Groupmind doesn't make sense either because it's already done all the Rising it needs to.
Meh. Maybe The Fall of Earth and then The Rise of the Ring?
This is what I do instead of finishing the damned stories...
At the moment, the tentative title for the first collection is The Fall of Man. Generic, but I can live with it.
The best I can come up with for the second will be The Rise of the Ring. Which I don't like for two reasons. One, it's alliterative, which tends to annoy me for no rational reason. The second is that the Ring isn't a character or an iconic backdrop, in the way that Niven's Ringworld was. The thrust of the stories are about Man, the Morphs, and the Groupmind. And Rise of the Groupmind doesn't make sense either because it's already done all the Rising it needs to.
Meh. Maybe The Fall of Earth and then The Rise of the Ring?
This is what I do instead of finishing the damned stories...