Choose the best book title :)
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Thorgalaeg
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DSL, which stands for demon at the spiral line, it is LSD backwards and a net protocol, (dont know if drugs or internet play a rol in your book, if not you will have to introduce them somehow)
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They don't. Usually there isn't anything in the stories which tells you the time isn't early 20th century. Well, apart from one or two references to cars, maybe (iirc; it is not impossible that there isn't any reference to cars either). 
That said, writing a sci-fi story about computers would be entirely in line with what i write already. Just hasn't happened yet. It most likely will.
That said, writing a sci-fi story about computers would be entirely in line with what i write already. Just hasn't happened yet. It most likely will.
Thank you! ^^
As for possibly using another of the story titles as the book's title, those are the following (currently) :
-The city person
-The spiral
-The clock (grandfather's clock type, actually)
-You have found a friend here! (you have made a friend in me? not sure how it would be in english, tbh)
-The small house
-The battle
-Rising up inside the old building (or something like that, "anabasis"
)
-The end of the line
-Savagery
-The worst they could (may get a different title)
-Another place (the 11K word story which possibly won't be in the book by the end)
Anyway, if i can't salvage the Another place story, i will have to include a different one in its place, so that the book can reach to about 33-35K words again.
-The city person
-The spiral
-The clock (grandfather's clock type, actually)
-You have found a friend here! (you have made a friend in me? not sure how it would be in english, tbh)
-The small house
-The battle
-Rising up inside the old building (or something like that, "anabasis"
)-The end of the line
-Savagery
-The worst they could (may get a different title)
-Another place (the 11K word story which possibly won't be in the book by the end)
Anyway, if i can't salvage the Another place story, i will have to include a different one in its place, so that the book can reach to about 33-35K words again.
Is there a common theme among the stories?
Sort of. A bit like when a musician/composer uses the same musical key or favours some scales for all pieces. But the stories aren't directly tied to each other.
As for themes themselves, yes, the main theme in all my works is introversion, and imagination. Most narrators there don't particularly communicate with their surroundings. Some have even stopped trying to. A couple of them are past the point of being able to co-exist with others. And many of the stories - to varying degree of that being evident or just arguably so - seem to be delusions surrounding the narrator.
Basically if you want an image of my stories, think of some obscure attempt of someone in his/her own dream, to examine something. Most stories are about some shadowy and elusive goal, to be reached through a labyrinth of thoughts or self-imposed dangerous experiments.
You're spoiling the fun for future English teachers who would be forced to make things up when explaining your works decades after you've passed and they're all famous works of literature.
CFC will be buried way too deep in bygone era web debris by then, no one will know what was said here
Google will be their guide.
I took a college lit course on SCIENCE FICTION (easiest A ever) And one class early in the semester was reserved for Riverworld. The teacher gave us his interpretation of the series. As a class we kept copious notes. Which paid off in spades when Jose Farmer visited our class towards the end of the semester and we read back our teachers interpretation for him to comment on. He laughed for about 10 minutes, much to the embarrassment of our teacher. He said they were friends and he always found it funny that our teacher would always argue it with him. He had to keep reminding him that he WAS THE ONE THAT WROTE IT.
I took a college lit course on SCIENCE FICTION (easiest A ever) And one class early in the semester was reserved for Riverworld. The teacher gave us his interpretation of the series. As a class we kept copious notes. Which paid off in spades when Jose Farmer visited our class towards the end of the semester and we read back our teachers interpretation for him to comment on. He laughed for about 10 minutes, much to the embarrassment of our teacher. He said they were friends and he always found it funny that our teacher would always argue it with him. He had to keep reminding him that he WAS THE ONE THAT WROTE IT.
Ferocitus
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In mathematics there is an Archimedean spiral, and he also studied Floating Bodies.
Maybe something lovely could be cobbled together from those words in Greek.
Maybe something lovely could be cobbled together from those words in Greek.
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I always thought "A Tale of Two Cities" was a great title.
Thanks
The "The worst they could" story is very brief, and i had actually translated it somewhat:
"
If one was among Odysseus’ crew on board the ship, as they were nearing the rock of Scylla, rowing as always since he was not aware of what would soon emerge from the depths of that rock’s cave, observing Odysseus’ putting on his full armor and raising his weapons with perfect silence around, and finally be entirely devoid of the ability to predict that in an instant there shall pass next to Odysseus a hideous head with three rows of black teeth to pick him up high and take him with it to its cave... such a person’s sole remaining fate would be to crawl on the rocks of that cave’s edge for the little time it would take Scylla’s head to stretch backwards in preparing its voracious descent onto him...
Back in the ship, Odysseus would recall how the above sight had been the worst human eyes could fall upon.
And yet, if, paradoxically, one had been a member of that ship’s crew in some previous time as well, and yet again was in an identical journey, then he might even succeed (after a large number of repeats of the same conclusion) to remember at that specific moment: just what would appear next to Odysseus as he was obscurely putting on his armor. And, coming to terms with the idea that he would never avoid his pitiful destiny to come, regardless of how many times he still had to face the same, perhaps he would then discover some great source of interest in observing keenly and with ever increasing accuracy each time that shape of the beast – the shape which (as we are told in the Rhapsody) not even the gods could bare.
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You seem quite sure about that. I've got PMs and email notifications dating back over 10 years, buried way down in various email accounts.CFC will be buried way too deep in bygone era web debris by then, no one will know what was said here
Not unlike when Frank Herbert's novel Dune was first published. Some people thought he was trying to start a new religion, when in fact, that's the opposite of what he was trying to do. One of the major themes in Dune is "beware of the charismatic leader".
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