Livejournal's been weird lately, so I've got a bit of random stuff saved up.

Thing the First: I submitted A Silent Dog to Penguin today. I won't know they'll have rejected it until March, however. Getting published is such a tedious process ( Read more... )

I have fan! As in a device that moves air around, not an admirer. It's huge. I've been sleeping awfully these past few nights, but my old fan was too dangerous to use. I'm not kidding. If you switched it on or off or changed settings after the lights were out, you could see the spark jumping around inside ( Read more... )

I have returned from cold and rainy Melbourne safe and sound, and luckily it wasn't quite as cold and rainy as it could have been ( Read more... )

Half Life came out when I was a teenager; I remember reading an article about it in the newspaper, and playing the demo. Our computer could barely run it, and as I found out years later, the demo itself was famously difficult. These things meant that I'd never played Half Life ( Read more... )

CD Projekt have released a trailer for their Cyberpunk 2077 game. Last I heard they were making something cyberpunky but I didn't know what.

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Standing by to lose my shit.

Shit is now officially lost.

I know, I know, it's a prerendered cutscene, it's nothing, etc etc. But but but. Want. Did you know Snow Crash was originally going to be a game ( Read more... )

So, during my week at the beach, and in the week following, I covered my manuscript in red pen. I really enjoy the physical act of editing on paper. So much of writing nowadays is ephemeral digital data, easily erased, easily copied, and taking up no physical space ( Read more... )

( And thus a brotherhood of bros was born. )

( Tasteful censorship. )

( Best of bros. )

( Part the second. Again, heaps of pictures. )