Tag: science fiction
Lodestar 62, Kestrel & Ahni
Here’s where we switch back to Kestrel’s and Ahni’s stories. Ahni rides a camel, blind-folded in front of Lyris, who is getting paid to take Ahni through the Party Dome. This a short chapter … let me know if the switchover from Ahni’s POV to Kes’s POV makes sense and is not too disruptive?
Why The World No Longer Makes Sense
Does it seem that the world no longer makes sense? That may not just be you. The world may in fact no longer be making sense. In the late 1960s, …
Why The World No Longer Makes Sense
Turns out I’m not alone in this, that it isn’t just due to my recent experiences (last 4-5years) that I can’t get a handle anymore on who I now am.
Lodestar 61, Scrim
About five years ago, I reworked what would’ve been the next couple of chapters to submit to Worldbuilding Magazine, for an installment they were running on relationships, V3I3: Gender & Relationships
Since I was extracting the story from an ongoing Lodestar Saga and wanted eventually to be able to come back to it—as I am doing now—I changed Srese’s name and backstory. But, although she is called Kate in this chapter and has a whole different history, she is still Srese. As you will see.
Scrim’s parts in the whole deal have not changed, and that part of his life–as it is described here–fits in well with what’s coming for him.
Enjoy!
Lodestar 60, Srese
Lodestar 59, Srese
Having got all the other characters hovering in place for the next big push, it is now Srese’s turn again for a spell in the lime light.
Reading: ‘The Lathe of Heaven’
I love Ursula Le Guin’s writings. I have The Lathe of Heaven on my shelves and as soon as I’m done with The Revenger series–any day now– I’ll be re-reading The Lathe.
In the meantime read this fabulous review by Sam Matey, and his reminders of how much ‘we’ (humanity) have/has progressed since the 1970s … And even though we’re trying to get used not progressing, not using more resources, these kind of progressions are needed.
https://sammatey.substack.com/p/unpaywalled-book-review-the-lathe/comments
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