Category Archives: Long Dark

Growing up Green

This was my halfway prize from my municipal liaisons for passing 25K words for NaNoWriMo last night. Continue reading

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An Americano in Australia

The difference between interstellar space and a good cup of joe.

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Reading (& writing) spacy

Writing science fiction (as opposed to science fantasy) requires research & reading. Here’s some of the spacy stuff I read, so that I can write spacy too.

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Hallowe’en: The night my writing is raised from the dead

In which I celebrate the imminent start of NaNoWriMo 2012 — & the resurrection of my writing life.

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Space travel can mess up your digestion

In which I channel my character Esti Gusev — or at least I channeled something. I.e., sometimes the hazards of space travel can come right down to Earth. (A la Neil F. Comin’s book The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist’s Guide).

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“Pushaway” published in the anthology Subversion

My story “Pushaway,” which tells the story of how my character Esti Gusev grew up in a toxic religious community on Mars, has now been published in the anthology Subversion: Science Fiction & Fantasy Tales of Challenging the Norm, edited by Bart Leib.

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Whatever in hell I’ve been doing…

I haven’t been writing many posts on Henkimaa lately, but I have been (1) writing on Bent Alaska; (2) organizing my writing; (3) writing; (4) thinking about writing posts on Henkimaa.

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Integrity, violation, healing

This excerpt from Rachel Meikäläinen’s Whole Numbers delves into the meaning of the word integrity.

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Jane Doe, Finnish style

How the main character of Mistress of Woodland became a philosophical forebear of my fictional Consensus society in Long Dark and Cold.

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Storyminded

Two things bring on storymind tonight: a cool new blog called Science in My Fiction by my pals at Crossed Genres; & the story of murder, an interstellar spaceship, & Lord Shiva that I’m about to start working on.

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