Author Archives: E.D. Lindquist

Just posted a new piece of flash fiction! As usual, it’s exactly 200 words. Keeping the flash pieces that short has been every inch as difficult as I expected it to be. This one was base on some passing comment from Lacey a few nights back. Enjoy!

-E.D. Lindquist

The other night, some of us were talking about a project I linked to a few days ago: The Mongoliad, a novel by Greg Bear and Neal Stephenson to be delivered online. Quite frankly, I don’t think it’s going to work. Not because I don’t like or believe in novels online, obviously, but because they’re going to charge a subscription fee for it.

So why does that worry me? Yes, I believe good fiction is well worth paying for. That’s not my problem with their plan. But even if it’s worth the money, I don’t think most people will pay for it. Merited or not, there’s a … Read more.

In the 80s, The Dune Encyclopedia was published with 200 essays on the Dune story, setting and themes. It’s been out of print for years, but now you can read it online. You can read more about it here, or go read the encyclopedia here. It’s available as a Google doc.

According to Tor.com, the book was at first considered canon, but was “quietly given non-canon status as Herbert’s son continued to expand the Dune mythos through his own books. With the Dune universe continuing onwards, the Encyclopedia is now considered completely apocryphal.”

I haven’t read any of … Read more.

Tired of them? I sure am. I liked how my other theme looked… but then I learned how impossible it was to access on a lot of devices. And I learned how long it took to load when my connection slowed down. Most of all, I’m tired of the eye strain from staring at the tiny gray text on my tiny netbook screen. I kind of thought some other people would be, too.

So, though I miss my pretty Arras theme, I worked with the default WordPress theme, Twentyten. It’s simple, it’s basic, it’s readable. I’m still screwing with the finer details, but after about 48 hours of work, LLS … Read more.