i really am still alive
May. 20th, 2008 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zanzjan...just very, very busy and with few opportunities to sit at the computer for any length of time.
OTOH, I'm discovering that it's not impossible to read while holding one or more babies, so I've been doing a fair bit of that. Which is the reason for this post: Karl Schroeder's Virga series, Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce so far, are so entirely freakin' brilliant (particularly in terms of worldbuilding) that it makes my head spin. I could only ever dream of writing something even half that clever.
And, ah, yes, I'll be getting back to my own feeble attempts at writing sometime eventually. The stories in the backbrain are simmering away again, but I haven't been able to get my fingers close enough to keyboard long enough to do much about any of it. I think once my parents have left (another few weeks, it looks like) I might just set up the laptop semi-permanently on the kitchen counter.
But hey, if you're looking for some good SF to read, go check out Schroeder. Bonus: space pirates! How can you go wrong?
OTOH, I'm discovering that it's not impossible to read while holding one or more babies, so I've been doing a fair bit of that. Which is the reason for this post: Karl Schroeder's Virga series, Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce so far, are so entirely freakin' brilliant (particularly in terms of worldbuilding) that it makes my head spin. I could only ever dream of writing something even half that clever.
And, ah, yes, I'll be getting back to my own feeble attempts at writing sometime eventually. The stories in the backbrain are simmering away again, but I haven't been able to get my fingers close enough to keyboard long enough to do much about any of it. I think once my parents have left (another few weeks, it looks like) I might just set up the laptop semi-permanently on the kitchen counter.
But hey, if you're looking for some good SF to read, go check out Schroeder. Bonus: space pirates! How can you go wrong?
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Date: 2008-05-21 04:51 am (UTC)Tor was giving away Sun of Suns a couple weeks ago as part of their big giveaway, and Schroeder himself is giving away Ventus on his site. It's amazing what's out there for free. So if someone's looking to try before they buy, there you go.
Of course if you like it you should promptly then give him money. Buy his new books!