Actually, not so blues… more like lilac but that didn’t work as a title.
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Wow! What beautiful lilacs!! I, too, like your fence.
Those are gorgeous – I’m wondering, though, about the haze that seems to be on the lens or something – kind of a milkiness to it.
More talks like this, please. 🙂
Ishmael’s stories are so focused that whenever I see an answer to a question not asked in them I get excited.
I like to have some rough edges in the stuff I’m reading. Gives the story a nice texture.
I like rough edges too – but I liked in the first Share novels, they were social & psychological rough edges, not fists-swinging and people shooting at each other edges. I loved the section where Ish had to figure out how he could possibly make it in time to deliver the cargo – and then the anguish of him knowing that they might have made it, but they have to rescue the other ship. I thought it somewhat questionable whether or not a close pass to a planet would be close enough to be inside the Roche limit, but that certainly seems feasible – weak couplings between the cargo containers. I tend to prefer PvE, not PvP, really, and non-contact competition such as track, gymnastics, etc, instead of contact sports like football, basketball, and baseball.
I don’t think “rough edges” means violence, Tara. I think it means technically imperfect writing. Sometimes perfect writing lacks heart and soul.
I do, though, agree with you about what was wonderful about the first Share novels. 🙂
As do I. Loved that about the early books. And yes, I meant rough edges as in writing that hasn’t been polished too much. So the story is like the writer is telling it to you almost on the spot. If it’s too polished it can feel too rehersed, if that makes sense. I like to get sucked into the story but also feel like it isn’t too perfect.
Nice photo there.
I can see a decent story based on the idea of an orbital takeover that goes wrong, maybe focused more on some of the innocents on station trying to get out safely before things go boom. Not sure if it is your sort of story, but I can see it.
in regards to a missing orbital; maybe if the loss of profit and impact to trade warrants the CPJCT would have a special committee owned large leviathan type vessel to act as a temporary basic orbital until a new one could be built or brought in? Oh and I too like the lilacs!
In a lot of ways, the CPJC* would not need to build in a self-destruct – it’s going to take a fair bit of education and a lot of dedication to keep such a station going. Automatics are only going to go so far in keeping it stable. If the station gets taken over – chances are they’re going to goof up fatally fairly quickly.
To be honest (and if I just missed you saying it Nate sorry) I had just assumed that station destruction wasn’t due to a self-destruct as much as the messed up hacking resulting in critical interlinked systems crashing… automatics fail… station fails in some manner, power reactor boom or uncontrolled de-orbit.
But that is in part my programming background showing itself.