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Jun. 7th, 2012 12:27Wednesday June 6, 2012 "Caliban's Occupation's Gone" is a title I've had for a while. I now have the seed of a story to go with it. (Still needs characters, setting, and a few other details.) In the queue.
****Miss Daisy's Place is the thrift store closest to me (the only one in walking distance) and usually the cheapest one; but it's not always open during its official hours. Today it was.
From there to Dollar Tree and Rainbow Foods, and then home.
***Naomi Kritzer reading at DreamHaven Books. She began with "Scrap Dragon," which appeared in the January-February issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
There was a heckler. After a while, I realized the heckler had a script and was part of the reading.
Then Ms. Kritzer read a not-yet-published science fiction story about someone approached by her future self.
***Realization: The fall of the Berlin Wall could have been predicted the day it went up.
I couldn't have predicted it myself, for two reasons. First, I didn't have the necessary knowledge and experience yet.
Second, I didn't know till the next day what had happened. I was listening to Radio Moscow's news; but the newswoman kept explaining why this step was necessary. I kept waiting for her to explain what this step was; she never did.
***From Twitter: Elizabeth Bear @matociquala
I'm terribly sorry about the transporter accident. Say... I've always had a thing for twins. #startrekpickuplines #hopingyouretheevilone
****People of Rimrock: A study of values in five cultures. Editors: Evon Z. Vogt & Ethel M. Albert. Harvard University Press, 1966.
The "five cultures" are "Navaho, Zuni, Spanish-American, Mormon, and Texan homesteaders" in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. (Some of the "Texans" were from Oklahoma, and those actually from Texas were apparently all from the Panhandle.) Since the study began in 1949, the anthropologists and other scientists may be as strange to modern readers as the two English-speaking groups.
****Miss Daisy's Place is the thrift store closest to me (the only one in walking distance) and usually the cheapest one; but it's not always open during its official hours. Today it was.
From there to Dollar Tree and Rainbow Foods, and then home.
***Naomi Kritzer reading at DreamHaven Books. She began with "Scrap Dragon," which appeared in the January-February issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
There was a heckler. After a while, I realized the heckler had a script and was part of the reading.
Then Ms. Kritzer read a not-yet-published science fiction story about someone approached by her future self.
***Realization: The fall of the Berlin Wall could have been predicted the day it went up.
I couldn't have predicted it myself, for two reasons. First, I didn't have the necessary knowledge and experience yet.
Second, I didn't know till the next day what had happened. I was listening to Radio Moscow's news; but the newswoman kept explaining why this step was necessary. I kept waiting for her to explain what this step was; she never did.
***From Twitter: Elizabeth Bear @matociquala
I'm terribly sorry about the transporter accident. Say... I've always had a thing for twins. #startrekpickuplines #hopingyouretheevilone
****People of Rimrock: A study of values in five cultures. Editors: Evon Z. Vogt & Ethel M. Albert. Harvard University Press, 1966.
The "five cultures" are "Navaho, Zuni, Spanish-American, Mormon, and Texan homesteaders" in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. (Some of the "Texans" were from Oklahoma, and those actually from Texas were apparently all from the Panhandle.) Since the study began in 1949, the anthropologists and other scientists may be as strange to modern readers as the two English-speaking groups.