Review: Saturn’s Children, by Charlie Stross
I read Saturn’s Children by Charlie Stross last week, and after having thought about it some, I’ve come to the conclusion that the book is shallower than I wanted it to be.
The book follows the adventures of Freya Nakamichi, a sex ‘droid designed to please her human masters. Unfortunately for Freya, human beings have been [...]
Sorry about that…
Operator error. A story that I’d posted a while ago somehow made it into the ‘pending’ pool. My mistake. I’ll review the process before putting anything else up. There will be another story soon. I’m just not sure which one.
Defining Deviancy Up: The Red Rose Conviction
I write erotica.
Sure, I write science fiction and fantasy and pirate romances and now I’m writing contemporary alt history, but all of those are frames for the picture, and in the picture are two (well, usually two) people having sex. I tend to enjoy huge, ornate, justifying frames, sometimes to the point of having [...]
My Baby! My Baby!
Sigh. I had this “great idea” for re-writing Honest Impulses as one of the Purpose Wars novels, the first one, in fact, and the novel was going along really well until I re-read the first draft.
There’s a phrase in writing called “kill your babies.” It means, figuratively, to double-check that your favorite scenes are actually [...]
Pluck me!
I spent my study time this morning writing a series of Plucker toolchains for various Usenet and storiesonline outputs. One of the neat features of plucker is its ability to bundle a whole collection of chapters, books, or series into a series of pages, like web pages, that you can then distribute or upload [...]