Andrea’s Reviews > The Starfighter Invitation > Status Update

Renamed. I spent a lot of time debating over the title of this, cause I really like "Snug Ship" as a title, and I also tend to want to never telegraph what a book's about. This one, I think, gives a lot more away. But, heck, telling readers what a book's about is one of the functions of a title.

Snug Ship's a near-future book - "a year or two ahead" kind of thing, and it's always kind of interesting/problematic to use very current terminology, social frictions, etc. Gaming is a hot button area, and I'm kinda glad the main surge of GG is past, since the story would be not quite whole if I didn't address such attitudes in some way. True virtual also really requires you to look at physical identity.

It's been a while since I've done a book with chapter headings. They started out just listing the stages of an MMO, but I can't resist slipping the odd sly reference in there.

Writing an MMO guild meetup for snug ship. Feel free to tell me a name you'd like me to add as a guildie.

Slow, steady progress on this one. I'm just having fun having ridiculous conversations with Dio, really.

Dio (a major character in this book) is one of my favourite characters of all time.

The punctuation in this book is going to annoy so many people...

This is turning out fairly quippy/bantery. And heavily into gender identity (as is perhaps inevitable in a book focused on virtual gaming).

[I'm entirely entertained by what non-gamers will make of some of this book. How many will think mini-hamburgers?]

"No game before Dream Speed had ever presented me with me, naked, standing in the middle of an empty white space.

...

And I had sliders."

This book is going to be heavy going for non-gamers. Gamers, however, will probably be like me - not so much wanting to read the book as desperately wanting to play The Singularity Game.