Adrian Tchaikovsky

I mean… yes but I don’t think that works unless you know the story already. If you do it’s a very elegant reminder for sure.

Don’t know. I think Caville definitely has range.

Ah well - next year!

Fair.

‘Made in a factory that also processes ants.’

I think that’s it.

They look like they had an awkward teenage growth spurt and never comb their hair.

Just wondering how much this would be sugar coated or hidden if he hadn’t been on board tbh.

Torment nexus 2 existential horror boogaloo

Ah, didn’t see that but may look it out.

Arachnophobia.

I should not some of this is in my own depressing SF, Hungry Gods, out this month.

I mean if you had a vested interest in claiming a political figure was now immortal and could change laws any way you wanted… the depressing SF writes itself.

Amen to that.

I goddamn loved him. Hal Jordan would have been a bit ‘superman but greener’ in attitude. Asshole Guy Gardner was Gunn doing the sort of character he loves to play with.

Although I don’t know how far we are from just scraping someone’s whole media presence, training an llm and techbros claiming it as a literal personality upload.

(Goes in to HR office) ah crap I forgot my planchet.

Presumably both variants may exist in the deep past? Also you did specevo fossils? Amazing :)

A masterclass in introducing a bunch of superheroes (most of whom aren’t new to one another so nobody’s expositing) without it ever becoming confusing or crowded - though Gunn always has been good at that.

Enjoyed Superman a lot. Among other things demonstration of why sometimes you tell not show (4 short sentences to set up the world rather than the first 40 mins of the film) and also

"Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite", an anthology. On a carpet, with measuring tape, scissors, seam ripper, Chinese buttons, and a bottle of lucky stars.

It's pub day for "Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite"! What happens when a tailor of deconstruction spells, and a haughty geomancer, are forced to work together at only one table? Check out my short in this anthology pubbed by @starsandsabers.bsky.social

They’d outsource the work to Oreb from Book of the Long Sun.’

(Pause)

(Crickets)

I guess someone told a very bad joke.

If it had ever turned up.

So, late night insomnia RPG thoughts. (thread)

Scenarios (as products). There is plenty of talk about good and bad scenarios. But I am starting to think that there is in fact no such thing as a bad scenarios. After all, I bet we have all played "bad" scenarios and had great fun, right?

1/x

Slay the Spire post. Yesterday’s daily was won entirely through 2xdefragment, frozen core, inserted (gain orb slots every 2 turns, gain a defensive orb each turn you have a slot, boost all orbs by 4) - enough passive block that the hardest boss strikes couldn’t ever have touched me after a few turns

Did a search and discovered that there was no feed for the work of Adrian Tchaikovsky (@aptshadow.bsky.social), so I made one.

I haven't added an image yet, but I'm open to recommendations!

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‘I can use it for… therapy… but nothing serious…’

Starship Alexandria The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures! In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse...

I'm liking how the "Why we left Earth" bits in the excellent Starship Alexandria podcast with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social are becoming slowly madder. In the latest episode: bees. starshipalexandria.com