Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Bet that feels like a lifetime ago, now huh?
It feels like several lifetimes. Heritage Press went under and then my marriage did, and fandom was too much of a reminder of both. I think most people have to completely remake their lives a couple of times, though.
I think most people have to completely remake their lives a couple of times, though.
Yeah. My penguin dairy farm didn't turn out so well.
Twice now, and I'm only 28. I've probably got at least 2 more left in me.
My penguin dairy farm didn't turn out so well.
Their milk makes terrible cheese?
Their milk makes terrible cheese?
Well, it's more that it's difficult to make penguin cheese with a complete lack of penguin milk.
Isn't penguin "milk" semi-digested fish bits that they puke back up into the chick's beaks? I can see how that might not go over so well with the grocery-buying public. Well, unless one hit the jackpot with a fad diet craze in southern California.
My first worlldcon (first of any kind, really) was Iguana Con in Phoenix, which was the next year after Miami. Robert Forward had a great presentation about "Life on a Neutron Star."
Did anyone mention Forward for hard science? If not, consider it done now.
I want to see tommyrot milk a penguin. Mammals have dominated that market for way too long.
Their milk makes terrible cheese?
Well, it's more that it's difficult to make penguin cheese with a complete lack of penguin milk.
That's being logical. Penguin milk is metaphysical.
Forward did Dragon's Egg, right? I love that.
Unfortunately, I just read an anthology of hard science fiction that has forewords and introductions explaining why each story is hard science fiction and why anything that isn't hard sf is crap, and it made me unable to think about the subject rationally.
But I can say that I love Brust so much that I spent years reading Jack Chalker novels because I thought he wrote To Reign in Hell. I was so relieved when I realized my mistake, and so grateful to rediscover Brust!
I want to see tommyrot milk a penguin. Mammals have dominated that market for way too long.
Well, some cultures talk about something known as "man-milk."
Penguin milk is metaphysical.
Or rather, the non-existence of penguin milk is a... a... metaphor or symbolic or something of something.