Track List Reveal for Steam Powered Giraffe: The Vice Quadrant: A Space Opera
Track #8 - Fire Fire Written by David Michael Bennett
“Oh it’s such a shame, of all the things to go wrong while out in space”
*deep breath*
*earsplitting fangirl scream*
It’s happening It’s real
Remember when we thought it was gonna be on MKIII and it wasn’t and at first they didn’t tell us why and we had to get to the end of that album to find out? I’m so happy it’s finally come to this!
A Havenworlder finds out that even after reaching the Information Age, with early-warning systems and all the other resources available to a species at such a level of development, tsunamis (“The term refers to several million tonnes of water traveling at two hundred meters per second.”) still killed an average of seven thousand people consistently, every year, over four decades
(last four from 2015)
Th’k’x had to wear full health monitors and have a Medik on standby, just to access
Ever since Terry Pratchett died last week, I’ve been having variants of the same conversation with my friends and family — WHERE to start reading when there are so so so many books?
Everyone has their own strongly held opinions, as our pal Tasha Robinson lays out in this thoughtful essay. Me personally, I say as long as you don’t begin at the beginning, you’ll be fine. (I’m sure there are people out there who like The
In a typical moment of human curiosity, when a rip in the fabric of space and time appeared in the lab, they did not explore it with all possible instruments, test dummies, cameras or animals. Instead, after poking it with a broom, and ensuring a potplant didn’t combust when put in for a minute, they stuck their heads in to see what was on the other side.
It was shaped roughly like a kumquat. If that kumquat was about five feet
The opposite to the last one - a being that is unattractive to their own race that a human finds beautiful.
Rae usually disliked going into the lower-gravity realms of the
station. She had a pathological dislike of insects that included
antisocial actions like screaming and flailing if one of them touched
her.
Only the Huf’nuf’ruf remained unoffended.
Her intent
was to go down, do her job, and then retreat into one of the luxury spas
to soak the imagined