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Hunter’s Garden: Behind the scenes.
“Hunter’s Garden” is the name of the first work of fiction that I posted here on this website. It was posted in chapters as I wrote it. I learned that this was a terrible way to write and share a book. I will not be doing it this way again. A book is formed slowly…
Universal paperclips. A Clicker.
I like clickers. I especially like GOOD clickers. By good I mean the kind that eats you every waking moment until its made its way entirely though the addicted part of your brain and out of the other side leaving you feeling reborn. This is exactly that in something that takes about two to ten…
Book Club: Dune – Messiah by Frank Herbert
I enjoyed Dune. The first one was excellent. It was a little long in places but overall it was cohesive and enjoyable. It put forward interesting ideas and was a verbose but carefully told story. While not totally to my tastes I basked in it’s verbosity and left thinking it was a master piece; though…
Book Club: Dune by Frank Herbert
As much as this is out of character for me I am going to try and keep this brief. The reason is that there is no way anyone hasn’t heard of this book and most people who give a shit will have already read it, or bounced on it already. I tried to read Dune…
The opening line: Stranger in a Strange Land
I love this novel, I think its one of Robert A Heinlein’s finest offerings. I have wrote about it in great depth in the past, but were only here to talk about the first line today. “Once upon a time when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.” Once upon a time…
The opening line: Foundation
There are two opening lines in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. The first is the extract from the Encyclopedia Galactica (the fictional book that chronicles the universe. Asimov uses it to fill in the gaps for the reader) and then the actual first “in universe” line. It feels a little like cheating that Asimov gets two cracks…
The opening line: Neuromancer
I had a conversation with a friend today. He was talking about writing and how its done, I went off on my usual rant about how I think the opening line of a novel is the scariest moment any writer is faced with. It is in my opinion the act of looking at all of…
Deliveries, Gifts and thanks.
These last few days I’ve been having some meandering thoughts about how nice people are. These thoughts don’t quite make up an entire post. So I thought I would write a post… I don’t think I make big enough woots about all the cool things people send to me. Since talking about my Amazon wishlist…
Steam Deck has ruined my Switch.
The future is looking good. I don’t want to become of of those tiresome ‘content creators’ (ewe) who is going to be banging on about the Steam Deck for the rest of the year and does nothing except build hype for Valve. But I can’t not talk about this topic. Just a little bit. With…