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Anxiety Update
Sep. 16th, 2003 03:12 pmE and I are back in touch! After the Weekend of Silence I sent a short "What's up and should I be sorry?" email yesterday. Turns out she accidentally deleted my last missive on Thursday in a general junkmail sweep and then wondered why I hadn't emailed her back! She hoped she hadn't sounded too crazy. I had to re-construct what I'd sent, which wasn't too hard, and hopefully we're back on the correspondence track.
Read "The Return of Santiago" by Resnick last night. He does lovely character work, all the legends of the inner frontier are truly larger than life and a joy to behold. But aside from the color, the plot was really predictable, I'm afraid. Basic idea: Guy on a search. End result: I knew where he'd end up by about 1/4 of the way through the book...and I had my suspicions even earlier. Subtle it was not, despite the characters varied cluelessnesses (let's see the spellchecker choke on that!).
Recently my thoughts have trended towards a ballet of continental drift. One of my long-term world-building projects is your basic Hyper-Venusian Jungle Planet. Here Be Monsters, etc. etc. The trick is actually making it believable.
( Stop Here Unless interested in scientific meanderings )
And to all my readers on the East Coast (all...four of you?), I've got my fingers crossed for you. Hope Isabel turns mild.
Read "The Return of Santiago" by Resnick last night. He does lovely character work, all the legends of the inner frontier are truly larger than life and a joy to behold. But aside from the color, the plot was really predictable, I'm afraid. Basic idea: Guy on a search. End result: I knew where he'd end up by about 1/4 of the way through the book...and I had my suspicions even earlier. Subtle it was not, despite the characters varied cluelessnesses (let's see the spellchecker choke on that!).
Recently my thoughts have trended towards a ballet of continental drift. One of my long-term world-building projects is your basic Hyper-Venusian Jungle Planet. Here Be Monsters, etc. etc. The trick is actually making it believable.
( Stop Here Unless interested in scientific meanderings )
And to all my readers on the East Coast (all...four of you?), I've got my fingers crossed for you. Hope Isabel turns mild.
