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New flash fiction

E.D. Lindquist — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:33:18 +0000

Just posted some new flash fiction: At the Office. Still haven’t managed to write something that isn’t morbid, but I’m trying! I’ll get it one of these days.

- E.D. Lindquist

Lasers suck?

E.D. Lindquist — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:22:06 +0000

At least, they may be next to useless as weapons. If we apply some actual science to them, Coldhand’s Steelskin-slaying Talon-9 would be way less effective than Tiberius’ clunky old NI-gun. In a recent Lightspeed article, Jeff Hecht points out that bullets are still the way to go for tearing holes in human (or alien) bodies:

Blame this one on the laws of physics.

Lasers don’t generate energy; they convert energy from other sources into light, and in the process, much of the input energy is lost as heat, hampering the amount of damage it can inflict. And what about a power source? Batteries wouldn’t work.

New flash fiction up

E.D. Lindquist — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:25:06 +0000

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 free culture of the Internet

E.D. Lindquist — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:26:45 +0000

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 strong … Read more.

From Aron: Making NPCs

Aron Christensen — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:55:02 +0000

Well, our Star Wars game is going well. Erica and I have taken our players deep behind enemy lines, sent them on a mission into Hutt space and even down the throat of a space slug. Most recently, the characters have snuck back into Sith territory to break into a Sith Lord’s fortress on the world Vjun. The Sith Lord is a member of a fabulously wealthy family, so of course breaking into his stronghold happened during a grand ball!

It’s a real James Bond mission, but before all the sneaking in windows and silently taking down guards, there was intrigue, Sith plots, and dancing. Our games feature a lot … Read more.

The Dune Encyclopedia

E.D. Lindquist — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:13:22 +0000

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 the new generation of … Read more.

Site updates

E.D. Lindquist — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:56:33 +0000

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.

Bullet pun here

E.D. Lindquist — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:41:04 +0000

It’s been one of those days. Monday, it was blood loss form a stupid-tiny head wound. Yesterday, it was a migraine straight from Satan’s rectum. Today, it’s just a little bit of both. And the cats peeing on the floor. And Aron having a hard day of work. And having weird techno stuck in my head.

The long and short of it is that I’m way too tired to be witty (or at least to make the attempt), but the Internet still has sweet stuff flooding in. I shall do my duty and share these coolnesses:

Is the self-publishing rise vilifying publishing houses? Paul Carr has a

LLS feeds

E.D. Lindquist — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:52:13 +0000

I’ve enabled individual feeds for Loose Leaf Stories by category. You can grab the different feeds from the footer. If you just want to read Anvil of Tears and nothing else, now you can.

Happy reading.

- E.D. Lindquist

Criticism online

E.D. Lindquist — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:31:22 +0000

In another Novelr article, Eli wonders if a webfiction site can get real criticism:

Consider: online works – be it novel, short story or photostream – are very rarely criticized on the creator’s own turf. I have yet to see a full blown review of a person’s writing on said person’s writing blog, nor have I seen a full-blown review of a blook (by a reader) on the blook’s actual site.

I believe the main reason for this to be that people now attribute ownership to a creator’s online channel. They don’t criticize you on your blog the same way they won’t comment on your (bad) taste when