SW10: May 2011 #3: The Gates of New Bosnia

[Andrew Perron]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:27:56 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:

> With all the stellar power he could gather, he cut the tube.  As the tube 
> collapsed he tumbled down his side of it, with everything else.

I like this weird abstract scene.  You don't do a lot of those!

Tangent on something I've noticed: Your writing could use a bit less
straight, baldfaced statements of fact, and a little more... well, like
this!

> And then the Sultan and the Chancellor were amazed.  The stung warrior rose 
> up with wings, and flew away after the one who stung him.

Mwahahaha.  Perhaps they have the strange cosmic equivalent of a zombie
apocalypse on their hands...

> I do not promise to follow this story 
> line in regular episodes, but I might have to start respecting the RACC 
> concept of separate series, such as "New Bosnia".  (I considered calling it 
> "New Buzznia", but thought better of it.)

Awesome.

> Gavrilo the Hermit Wizard Bee was created by Wil Alambre, and is used by 
> permission.  (For once.)  It's awesome that Wil spent five episodes giving 
> this character an origin, and then *challenged* people to use him in other 
> stories.  So let it be done.

This is the kind of thing I strive to do. <3

> The world of the ascendant Turks comes from when the Usenet newsgroup 
> soc.history.what-if tried an Unfinished Sentence concept:  The Great Wall of 
> Upper Canada.  I'll take credit for the Nicaragua Canal action, the Ottoman 
> reconquest of Egypt, and The Bomb, thanks.  The secret of the Wall Builders 
> is unrevealed, but Russia and China were ruled by Khans until at most 100 
> years ago.  http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2011/wall.txt ... So let us 
> careful with Unfinished Sentence concepts.

Ooooooh.  I remember that newsgroup, even if I was 99% a lurker for the
short time I read it.  That's some good stuff, there.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, awesome sauce.