Okay. Well. It's November. Dear Gods, kill me now. Hates November. Hates it forevers. On the plus side, it has been a remarkably mild November for the state of Nebraska weatherwise. Or, at least it was. The last two days have brought in the cold, grey, icky, half-assed-drizzliness-that-may-or-may-not-become-snow that characterizes November ( Read more... )

If I've not mentioned it before, I loathe autumn. LOATHE it. Winter takes a second-place photo finish. And lucky, lucky me is stuck in a state that can't seem to decide between the two. This is quite literally THE coldest October on record in 122 years. We have had measurable snowfall. Some places barely an hour or two away are in winter- ( Read more... )

So. The world spins. An unseasonably cold summer segues into an unseasonably cold autumn complete with the earliest measurable snowfall since 1987. If not for Lucian, I'd probably just forget the whole bloody season (I never liked autumn anyway; the only positive points are my birthday, my son's birthday, and Halloween--that's it) and head into ( Read more... )

Greetings all ( Read more... )

Oy! Hey, all, sorry I've been behind. Been a little behind in everything recently. Hopefully it'll all pull together more or less well in time. ^_^; Anyway, I owe you fine folks some Lucian! I've BEEN doing the translations (averaging around seven lines a night), I just haven't been POSTING them. Due to this, you're going to get a chapter ( Read more... )

I must say, my patrons annoy the snot out of me sometimes. I did finally get the rings back from Mercury (based on where and how they reappeared, this was definitely HIS doing, the obnoxious little twerp), so that's a plus, though ( Read more... )

We'll be starting the narrative of the True History today, but first, just a couple of updates ( Read more... )

First, before we get into Lucian, I just have to say that this is bloody fricking awesome. You go, Vermont! ^_^V

And now, for the True History! Yes, today we get to finish the introduction, so after today's posting, everything from here on out will be Actual Narrative! Anyway, today is Day 10, and we're through Line 53.

( True History, Book I, lines 25-53 )

Okay! We've got a few things to tackle on today's post ( Read more... )

Okay! Ladies and gentlemen, as you've probably heard me mention from time to time, I am the proud owner of a copy of what is arguably the World's First Recorded Science-Fiction Novel. The novel is question is the Alethes Historia a.k.a. Vera Historia a.k.a. True History by a curiously-obscure satirist named Lucian who probably wrote it sometime ( Read more... )