Forgot my password for a couple of years there. Oops.

2018: Black Panther (and really the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole) Avengers: Endgame in 2019 may have been the ultimate love-letter to the fans who watched every single one of these movies since 2008 but Infinity War was a better movie, in the sense of assembled better from the sum of ( Read more... )

https://www.inc.com/magazine/19970615/1416.html - farmers' barbed wire fencing pulling double-duty as telephone wire in the 1920s. Frontier ingenuity at its finest. Makes me think of that Warren Ellis quote from Crécy, his woefully under-read comic/history text/treatise- ( Read more... )

Been far too long. Busier than ever, new ventures, new efforts and LJ is pretty much dead anyway ( Read more... )

Incidentally, the title doesn't refer to Game of Thrones but to Worm because ... yeah. Bad shit happens. All the time.

Even more incidentally, 2013's yearlust is Worm. Read it. You will (not) be sorry.

sex with hiveminds is severely underrepresented in science fiction: On the day the universe died, I was making love to a planet beneath a broken sky.

a God moment in retail: the first thing is always to strip away the surface chaos. if you've done your job right, underlying order will emerge within two or three phasesAnd now, from ( Read more... )

Sprinklefiction nanotale continues from the cut. Written April 12th 2005. Enjoy:

( The war you say? Alright, I'll tell you about my war, all one day of it )

I've been looking over my three Orion's Arm stories and I couldn't help noticing a significant amount of improvement from first to third. First one opens with a cliche and is a little sparse on the scene-setting. On the other hand, they are in space.

Each one's roughly two thousand words, +/- 200. Or thereabouts.

Ephemeral Skin
( In space, no one ... )

... "Look, it’s not like I’m some Luddite passing himself off as a mystic. I don’t justify a disdain for technology because I happen to fall outside its present ambit. I love technology. I love all the cool stuff it puts in my hands, the egalitarian power and convenience of it all. Ever heard of the Singularity?" The speaker sniffed disdainfully, ( Read more... )

Currently Reading: among other things, The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan by Ivan Morris ( Read more... )

Considerations of irony aside, only the green gelpod and nanometal skin separated Hethuj from the battle. He could shuck egoself, lose himself to the incandescent calculus of targeting solution and flash ambush. But Immedeist doctrine said otherwise. He _had_ to see what was going on ( Read more... )