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J'ai utilisé @inventaire pour lister des livres que je ne (re)lirai pas. Je les cède à qui en veut (prix libre). Il y a #écologie #anarchisme un peu #cuisine #sf #bd. Les livres sont à #Rennes mais un envoi est toujours possible.
https://inventaire.io/shelves/bc40bf89afb1fc6e91ca54568e17c932
It is a popular mathematical experiment to try and work out just how fast Santa has to be to reach every house with a child in a single 24 hour period.
The calculations always end up with a significant fraction of the speed of light.
There then usually follow discussions about what the collateral damage from Santa's passing would be. And cargo limits, and so on.
All of these are wrong, and ignore another end-of-year tradition. The portrayal of the ending year as an old man.
Now that I've put these two traditions side-by-side, I think you can see what is really going on.
It is possible for one man to visit every house in a night, with no shock waves or any of that silliness. But it comes at a cost.
For that man, the night lasts many years, as he travels back in time after each visit. Even with time travel, he does not get much time to eat - so the snacks you leave out are essential to him surviving the night.
But he only just survives. By the end of the night he will have aged over forty years. And then he hands the reins of the time-travelling sleigh to a younger man, warning him of the cost.
Someone always answers the call, despite the cost, because there is always someone willing to sacrifice everything to bring joy and light, even just a little, even if only for a moment.
So leave the snacks, and, if you catch a glimpse of him, give him a bow of respect. He deserves it.
#SFF #SF #Christmas #Santa #microfiction #microfic #tootfic #IAmWriting
Nerds, what #cyberpunk books *published after about 2014* have you have read yourself, and thought were exceptional?
I've read the Golden Age of Cyberpunk classics but haven't been keeping up with the current gen of authors handling cyberpunk themes. #bookstodon #Recommendations #SF #tech #ScienceFiction
J'ai utilisé @inventaire pour lister des livres que je ne (re)lirai pas. Je les cède à qui en veut (prix libre). Il y a #écologie #anarchisme un peu #cuisine #sf #bd. Les livres sont à #Rennes mais un envoi est toujours possible.
https://inventaire.io/shelves/bc40bf89afb1fc6e91ca54568e17c932
Nerds, what #cyberpunk books *published after about 2014* have you have read yourself, and thought were exceptional?
I've read the Golden Age of Cyberpunk classics but haven't been keeping up with the current gen of authors handling cyberpunk themes. #bookstodon #Recommendations #SF #tech #ScienceFiction
It is a popular mathematical experiment to try and work out just how fast Santa has to be to reach every house with a child in a single 24 hour period.
The calculations always end up with a significant fraction of the speed of light.
There then usually follow discussions about what the collateral damage from Santa's passing would be. And cargo limits, and so on.
All of these are wrong, and ignore another end-of-year tradition. The portrayal of the ending year as an old man.
Now that I've put these two traditions side-by-side, I think you can see what is really going on.
It is possible for one man to visit every house in a night, with no shock waves or any of that silliness. But it comes at a cost.
For that man, the night lasts many years, as he travels back in time after each visit. Even with time travel, he does not get much time to eat - so the snacks you leave out are essential to him surviving the night.
But he only just survives. By the end of the night he will have aged over forty years. And then he hands the reins of the time-travelling sleigh to a younger man, warning him of the cost.
Someone always answers the call, despite the cost, because there is always someone willing to sacrifice everything to bring joy and light, even just a little, even if only for a moment.
So leave the snacks, and, if you catch a glimpse of him, give him a bow of respect. He deserves it.
#SFF #SF #Christmas #Santa #microfiction #microfic #tootfic #IAmWriting
I ♥️ this so much.
Fran Sans is a typeface by @emily_sneddon inspired by the displays on the now-retired #SF #MUNI Breda light rail cars.
Process post: https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay
News story: https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/muni-train-san-francisco-21188933.php
#typography #trains #SanFrancisco
EDIT: Emily joined Mastodon in response to this post! I added Emily’s username above. 😁
I ♥️ this so much.
Fran Sans is a typeface by @emily_sneddon inspired by the displays on the now-retired #SF #MUNI Breda light rail cars.
Process post: https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay
News story: https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/muni-train-san-francisco-21188933.php
#typography #trains #SanFrancisco
EDIT: Emily joined Mastodon in response to this post! I added Emily’s username above. 😁
TOMORROW the ebook re-release of my 2010 #YA #SF debut The Unidentified will be available at your favorite online retailer, unless your favorite online retailer is Amazon, because it won’t be there!
https://books2read.com/b/bpJdnq
It’s an experiment in putting out this story as I always intended, revisioned and redesigned (still including THE BEST blurb ever. Thanks @pluralistic !)
The behind-the-scenes saga:
https://raemariz.com/the-unidentified/#intro
(I’ll include full text below for people who hate clicking links)
TOMORROW the ebook re-release of my 2010 #YA #SF debut The Unidentified will be available at your favorite online retailer, unless your favorite online retailer is Amazon, because it won’t be there!
https://books2read.com/b/bpJdnq
It’s an experiment in putting out this story as I always intended, revisioned and redesigned (still including THE BEST blurb ever. Thanks @pluralistic !)
The behind-the-scenes saga:
https://raemariz.com/the-unidentified/#intro
(I’ll include full text below for people who hate clicking links)
Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix
Mindjack is really two trilogies, the first about Kira's story and the second about Zeph's.
Zeph's story is darker, written in the turbulent times after the first Trump election. There... might be a lot of political commentary in there /js
Anyway I'm running a FOOD DRIVE giveaway of paperbacks and you can get Open Minds (Mindjack One) as well as the short story collection that grew out of the six-book #YA #SF novel series.
Enter here: https://forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh5YLo9
It may be that I've thought through this whole "mindreading" thing more than the average bear, given I wrote six books about mindreaders and Mindjackers 🤣 ⚡
Mindjack is really two trilogies, the first about Kira's story and the second about Zeph's.
Zeph's story is darker, written in the turbulent times after the first Trump election. There... might be a lot of political commentary in there /js
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