“Empire Building” is cynical, accusatory, and is only spared from being potentially libelous because it ain’t libel if it’s true. Or it would be true, if the scenario found within was both possible, and actually happened. Against bureaucracy, the gods themselves contend in vain.
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As per “And Don’t Come Back:” i find that, as I get older, I get just a little less tolerant of letting bygones be bygones. Sometimes you just can’t let things get away with things. Even if it’s the utilitarian answer.
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Didn’t I put up “Smuggling Run” run already? I could have sworn that I had – but it’s not in my files here. Ah, well.
As “Changes In Taste” suggests, it must really suck in the modern world if your self-identity is esoterically dependent on humanity’s collective vision of you. No wonder most contemporary fantasy is so gritty, really. Nobody’s even taking the trouble to give them any metaphysical aspirin.
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“Billions and Billions” demonstrates why you should always ask about the fine details. Also, the importance of remembering that not everything’s a nihilist. Many fictional nihilists make this mistake, honestly.
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“One Small Lurch For Man” is a little weird, but… OK, it’s very weird. But, when you think about it: what’s the biggest problem when it comes to manned interstellar exploration, in an universe without faster-than-light travel? Exactly. Wouldn’t they honestly be better choices when it comes to making the trip?
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“A Rocky Start” is, in its way, hopeful. Why is it that we assume that Good is the only one that can screw things up, after all? Evil is just as capable of producing embarrassing congenital screw-ups, after all.
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“Open for Armageddon” was inspired by this:
This is the only good eclipse picture please delete all your other ones. pic.twitter.com/0uv3PKO4cw
— MC (@ThulsaGloom) August 25, 2017
…and I don’t think that the Tweet oversells it. I dunno who took that photo, but he or she was a goram artist.
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I suppose that literary situations like “This Is Too Easy” aren’t common because they’re not very dramatic, are they? How do you get an entire book out of people realizing in time that they’re being messed with? Honestly, 100 words seems to be about right for that sort of thing.
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