We - I - live in a world commensal to the everyday. There are entire stealth nations out there and in here, whose citizens fly no flags, sing no anthems and profess no creed but perfection. We find each other by gait and aura and markers subtler still. Should we desire to meet, we do not pick a place or arrange a dead-drop. Travel paths intersect, ( Read more... )

What's a nice one-word title for a superpowered/chi-adept martial artist? The answer is obvious and I can't believe I never thought of this before: A Boxer.

The capital letter stays on at all times.

I'm trying to come up with a nice monosyllabic verb for extramundane sensory perception. Note, this is not ESP because, logically, there is no such thing. If you are perceiving something, you are doing so with a sense. The fact that that sense isn't one of the default five is irrelevant. Okay ( Read more... )

"You’ve small hands for a guy ( Read more... )

(Just think of this essaylet as in-character. The alternative would be that I went insane sometime in 2003 ... and don't nobody wanna hear about thatLLI is so common among us Kirlian adept types it’s considered a feature, not a bug. OCD masquerading as perfectionism is also pretty common. Then there’s the really weird shit: synaesthesias so ( Read more... )

Serious Question: how do you justify the failure of the Boxer Rebellion in a world where the Boxers really did have supernatural abilities?

Answer: you don’t. The Boxer Rebellion succeeded. The Boxers, with their Iron Body and Wind Over Seven Waters and Jeweled Dragon Descending shattered the forces of the Germans, the British and the Americans ( Read more... )

If Spook Country and the Bourne movies had taken place in the Whiskey & Water universe, the outcome would look a lot like the book I really should have finished writing by now.

Except, of course, with more jump-kicks and chi-blasts.

(Why yes, I _am_ rereading W&W for the fifth or so time, why do you ask? Say, did you know Fionnuala was really-- * ( Read more... )

*perusing National Geographic Holiday 2006 Catalog*

If you want to see the future of clothing, look at today's travelwear.

In other news,

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... the protagonist of Lemniscate (the WIP formally known as Weepee Prime) is a manthanophile i.e. one who is obsessed with learning. This is different from epistemophilia, which is an obsession with knowledge.

And now, bed.

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Coming soon: my review of Blood & Iron by Elizabeth Bear, a book that gives (me) the impression of a black, ( Read more... )