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Sep '06

Sunny Day = Late Night

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I spent the day playing with Rob and stayed up ridiculously late to write. Well, and then I was also seduced by Captain Future and Danger Planet, which should really have an exclamation point in the title.

First:

In the center of the rocky ground, the earth had vomited up a vast structure of stone, misshapen and bent under the weight of itself.

Last:

Mama Winesap peered up.

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4 Comments

  1. Aliette de Bodard Aliette de Bodard on 17.09.2006 at 20:00 (Reply)

    Yep, it should have an exclamation point in the title. It has everything else but that ;)

  2. Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal on 17.09.2006 at 20:14 (Reply)

    It’s dated, but at the same time these were all brand-new ideas when it came out. And it’s fun and fast-moving.

  3. Aliette de Bodard Aliette de Bodard on 17.09.2006 at 20:34 (Reply)

    Yep, it’s hard to imagine all this was new at the time…How quickly do SF books age :(

  4. Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal on 17.09.2006 at 21:54 (Reply)

    This book is set in 1990, it was written in 1945.

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