Billions of tons over Robert's islands

[sovay]

My Oppenheimer-in-space review "It's Good to Know How the World Works: Star Trek: Voyager's 'Jetrel'"—written originally for Patreon, slightly revised for publication and graced with illustrations—is now available in The Stellar Beacon: The Trickster Issue. It appears alongside a very nice essay on tricksters and radical empathy by Alexandra Rowland, another on the necessary nature of escapism by Priya J. Sridhar, an extensive compilation of resources for accessibility in gaming by Jennifer Kretchmer, and some neat even to my non-gaming self systems and scenarios by editor Mark Sabalauskas. Check it out! I don't do this nonfiction thing officially as often as I should.

Comments

[dramaticirony]

The nicest thing about being an editor is being able to juxtapose different things, and hopefully introduce a few Alexandra Rowland fans to people who love Sonya Taaffe, and vice versa. And, more generally, bring indie narrative gamers and SFF fans closer together.

And, definitely, other publications would be lucky to get non-fiction pitches and submissions from you!

[sovay]

And, more generally, bring indie narrative gamers and SFF fans closer together.

I hope everyone enjoys the issue! I did.

And, definitely, other publications would be lucky to get non-fiction pitches and submissions from you!

Thank you!

[selkie]

The Alex Rowland intersection is one of those delightful confluences of internet and real world friends! They're part of a podcast other friends of mine do, among other things.

[dramaticirony]

I'm really happy that Be The Serpent got a Hugo nomination again this year.

I only wish Alex got a bit more recognition for Choir of Lies, that book is so good, fun and original. With the meta bonus of a snarky unreliable narrator in the footnotes commenting on the unreliable narration of the protagonist.

And they wrote it in only four months. (With Navah Wolfe editing.)

I'm hearing good things about Freya and Macey's respective forthcoming books.

[selkie]

I can’t waaaaait. And I haven’t read Alex’s last one either yet. On account of pandemic brain.

[sovay]

They're part of a podcast other friends of mine do, among other things.

Wait, which one?

[selkie]

Be the Serpent with Macey and Freya, whom we’ve known since she was 16 (aaaaaaagh).

[sovay]

Be the Serpent with Macey and Freya, whom we’ve known since she was 16

That noise I make to indicate mind blown over the rim of the galaxy.

[selkie]

...so when I say I failed to live up to any potential in the early-aughts mythpunk movement, I am... not joking. All those people I can never now catch up to are old friends.
(Freya, now well into majority, last crashed with us in 2018 and has offered mates’rates on editing the sex scenes if I’ll just move the fuck along already.)

[sovay]

...so when I say I failed to live up to any potential in the early-aughts mythpunk movement, I am... not joking. All those people I can never now catch up to are old friends.

Yeah, but I don't do cover modeling for them.

[selkie]

*hugs*

But you do it so precisely perfectly.

(I heard just the faintest whisper just now of “Move the fuck along already,” how strange.)

[minoanmiss]

*makes a note of this awesome*

[sovay]

*makes a note of this awesome*

*hugs*

[dhampyresa]

Congrats!

[sovay]

Congrats!>

Thank you!