Karen Joy Fowler: Cory told me that you, and I quote, "knocked it out of the park" last week.
Me: (flustered) Uh … I … well, I, uh, wrote a story I thought he might like. As I did with Bob … I mean, I don't TAILOR my stories to each instructor but–
KJF: –but you thought @KellyLink and I would enjoy a story about eating children?
Me: Uh …
Anyway, the story that @pluralistic liked is in ParSec #10 today:
@angusm@KellyLink@pluralistic This reminds me of a barnstormer of an argument I had with my agent circa 2008, culminating in her sending me an email saying "FOR GOD'S SAKE, YOU CAN'T HAVE THEM EATING THE BABY'S FACE! YOUR READERS WILL HATE YOU!"
(My reply was something like, "Caitlin, are you projecting much?" (She'd just had another baby.))
@angusm@KellyLink@pluralistic We agreed to submit the MS to an editor of mine who had three toddlers. They agreed the baby-face-eating was in the best possible taste and published the book. (That was 10 Laundryverse novels ago.)
I began to make the logic of the interaction of the cable with the protagonist. I don't want to make a rope that will wrap around objects. I probably add the cable to the inventory, and not drag it behind the character
@glassbottommeg I tried to do something similar based on a Cable component before, but I realized that it is difficult or impossible, some parameters cannot be changed dynamically... the Cable component shows itself well for tasks where it is not necessary to change the position or length, more for creating an environment or connecting two points
The first book of Ann Leckie's Radch trilogy, Ancillary Justice (2013) offers an interesting plot of AI, identity & insurrection. Leckie builds an interesting (political) world/universe for her tale of revenge & becoming, which while at times a little too tricksy, overall remains a compelling bit of space-opera. If at times the plot seems a little too convoluted, the central idea(s) is/are intriguing & developed interestingly
@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon Librarian friend loaned it to me with the warning (apparently common for this book) “OK, just trust me, get throught the first 100 pages.”
Oddly, the second was my favorite. The trilogy remains one of my top reads of the past decade.
Really love this show. It's not perfect and some of the plot decisions I could criticise, but it's one of the best #scifi TV shows I've seen. Great characterisation and brilliantly conceived #AltHistory
Very happy to learn #ForAllMankind has been renewed for another season — even tho I was hoping it would get the funding for at least one additional season to bring its alt-history inline with our current decade