Status Updates From Worlds Enough & Time: Five ...

"k2 with kanakaredes" - needed more humor, but i liked it a lot.

what the fuck dot gif

it's so unsettling to read about israel now, being spoken of so casually as a historical place like any other, a place for tourists to visit. knowing the atrocities were already happening, just on a much more abbreviated scale. truly gives the sensation of my skin crawling.

holy shit THAT took a turn

"the ninth of av" -- in all the future-earth scenarios i've encountered, one where people no longer know how to read is a new one. feels kind of shock value-y, tbh, but we'll see where it goes.

"orphans of the helix" novella set in the hyperion universe. i liked it-- it tied up maybe a touch more neatly than i found plausible, but the things it had to say about the wider future of the universe beyond the end of 'rise of endymion' were cool. funny how despite aenea explicitly forbidding her followers to worship her, a church of aenea has formed anyway. the more things change, etc.

spectrum helix has a very preservation-aux-style way of reaching consensus, lol. waiting for one of them to assert "we can talk about this".

"I’ve vowed not to write any more novels set in this Hyperion universe for a variety of reasons, chief among them being that I don’t want to dilute any existing vitality of the epic in a series of profitable but diminishing-returns-for-the-reader sequels."

....throwing salt at frank herbert, are we? XD

cw: mentions of CSA

story 1, "looking for kelly dahl" - another story about an alcoholic, lol, it seems to be the month for those. this is weird and i'm not sure that's a compliment.