Worldbuidling
Three major projects weigh down my writing table:
1. The "sequel" to Three Parts Dead, on which more later.
2. A serial novel I'm cowriting with alanajoli for the Baeg Tobar website
3. A webcomic with the estimable Mel, who (after a glance at her blog) has been wasting almost as much time playing Robot Unicorn Attack as I've been recently. Warning: don't follow that last link unless you've got some time on your hands, or have exceptional self-control.
I'm excited about all of these, but the webcomic project deserves special mention. Mel's art is brilliant, of course, and the world we're playing in is vast and contains a multitude of conflicting factions. The main action is set in a desert called the Shift that stretches between worlds: you get lost in one of a number of dimensions, and you end up in the Shift. If you ever make it out, you can end up in your own world, or in a number of other realms across the cosmos, or in different dimensions (it's unclear to the inhabitants). Think "Great Game" style central Asia spy machinations on a cosmic scale, with giant insectile monsters, fanatical singularitarians, and plucky reports -- Zelazny-esque science fiction, pulp, and posthumanism.
In preparation for our eventual launch, I'm keeping a public journal with some development sketches and bits of "found text" from the world: newspaper articles, excerpts from scientific journals, snatches of conversation, some multimedia eventually. Check it out and tell me what you think: theshiftremembers.blogspot.com.
1. The "sequel" to Three Parts Dead, on which more later.
2. A serial novel I'm cowriting with alanajoli for the Baeg Tobar website
3. A webcomic with the estimable Mel, who (after a glance at her blog) has been wasting almost as much time playing Robot Unicorn Attack as I've been recently. Warning: don't follow that last link unless you've got some time on your hands, or have exceptional self-control.
I'm excited about all of these, but the webcomic project deserves special mention. Mel's art is brilliant, of course, and the world we're playing in is vast and contains a multitude of conflicting factions. The main action is set in a desert called the Shift that stretches between worlds: you get lost in one of a number of dimensions, and you end up in the Shift. If you ever make it out, you can end up in your own world, or in a number of other realms across the cosmos, or in different dimensions (it's unclear to the inhabitants). Think "Great Game" style central Asia spy machinations on a cosmic scale, with giant insectile monsters, fanatical singularitarians, and plucky reports -- Zelazny-esque science fiction, pulp, and posthumanism.
In preparation for our eventual launch, I'm keeping a public journal with some development sketches and bits of "found text" from the world: newspaper articles, excerpts from scientific journals, snatches of conversation, some multimedia eventually. Check it out and tell me what you think: theshiftremembers.blogspot.com.