Three Things For Today.

[elfs]

No great announcements, just a few writerly things I saw today:

#1: Regarding my recent reviews of Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, Jo Waltonnails my opinion to the floor:

The techniques of writing and reading [science fiction] have developed in that time. Old things sometimes look very clunky, as if they’re inventing the wheel-because they are

Comments

[lucky_otter]

I have a minor critique of that opening to offer.

"I met him in the one place where we could possibly have met: on a de-orbiting shuttle." In or on? Too many prepositions. I say drop the "on".

There was a panel at Arisia entitled "the next punk". The uses "punk" has these days are many, perhaps too many, such that it's losing its meaning.

[bolindbergh]

Blackout during re-entry? How retro! :-)

[elfs]

Aw, man. Go ahead and ruin my plot. Well, I'll have to figure out some other way to get them to talk to each other.

[ljtourist]

Why not a glitch? Just have the relay satellites fail. To me, this makes it even more plausible. If a business traveler is expecting a 15-minute network interruption, then it seems likely that they'd have taken along some work they could do offline. If they suddenly find themselves trapped in realspace, then resorting to chatting up their seat-mate seems a logical next move...

[chaosss]

Could use

[chaosss]

Sorry - overly helpful feline.

Could use some tightening and editing but could be interesting.

[en_ki]

The second paragraph in your opening: intentional sadism toward crypto nerds?