Is there some way to check? I mean, my Patreon uses a $1 base level, so it’s not as infuriating to me as it’d be to some creators. The subscription model is more annoying, but it’s more annoying to me. If my patrons don’t actually care about that, then that’s livable. But if nobody is buying subscriptions via iOS anyway, then why should I change at all?
‘Songs of The Orcish Steppes’ would make for a decent Western. I could see orcs as cowboys. More importantly, I figure that so could they. …I obviously don’t mean Tolkien orcs, here. I mean their more civilized literary descendants.
“First Contact” is set in the same Unfiltered univers as GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND. …I really need to find a better name for this series than ‘Unfliltered.’ It’s a joke that I get, but possibly nobody else does.
As I said, it finally gelled. Next month’s is probably going to be set in the same world as GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND, by the way. That should be fun.
Anyway:
Moe Lane
Fun not-actually-fun fact: I started seeing the odd Face in AI slop after I wrote “We Don’t Talk About The Face.” …Yeah, I’m sure that’s nothing. It’s got to be some sort of coincidence.
One of my favorite things in the world to have happen.
I heartily endorse both Shaenon/Jeff’s and Eric/Wednesday’s Patreons, as well. Shaenon does my Tom Vargas covers (she’s looking forward to starting on BANSHEE BEACH), and Wednesday is my increasingly long-suffering editor tasked with tempering my atrocities against the semicolon. Good folks, good creatives, check them out.
Lucidity is not sanity. You can be perfectly clear and intelligible, while at the same time quite mad. For that matter, even if our protagonist succeeds he’s still going to be quite mad.
A little smaller than usual, but it’s the end of Chapter 10. Finally. Now we can get back to death and derring-do. Whatever that is. (Alas, now paywalled.)
Is what’s happening in ‘Market Equilibrium’ a good thing, or a bad thing? I’m not sure. Mostly it’s just a thing. That’s a lot of time just how the world works.
People usually decide that a Cuckoo city is just something weird that the Precursors do, for their own reasons. The Precursors generally don’t do much where the younger species can see them, anyway. Besides, they’re not inherently bad, just… weird. You learn to let it go.
