ct-announce digest, Vol 1 #17 - 3 msgs-Ola Clue Stories

Sat Feb 9 09:55:13 PST 2002

I read the Ola Blue stories that were a pitch for a series on another
website.  I REALLY enjoyed them and think they should be on the QOA website
too.  I am wondering if we will see more Ola Blue stories.  Also please
please can we have more AI War - the excerpt just left me hangin'  And if
you need a new hosting company -Xynetik ( a company I consult for) has had
great success with Hostway.com
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> From: Daniel Moran <dkm_1 at pacbell.net>
> To: continuing-time at ralf.org
> Subject: [CT] QOA; fiction
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> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 15:51:51 -0800
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> I've added two Star Wars short stories to QueenOfAngels.com -- "A Barve
> Like That," about Boba Fett; and "Empire Blues," which is about a
character
> you see for about two seconds in "Star Wars." A third and much longer
> piece, "The Last One Standing," which follows Fett from his youth to his
> old age, should be up sometime in the next week or so.
>
> I'm scanning in old fiction this last week. I scanned in "When Your name
is
> November," "The Song of Camber and S'Reeth," and am about to scan and OCR
> the sf/western novel I wrote when I was about 15. All are horrifically
bad,
> and all are plotted pretty well. Surprising to me -- they're virtually
> unreadable (and I don't mean, unreadable-by-me-because-I'm-embarrased by
> them; I mean, unreadable) -- and even so, because I've had to read them as
> I was scanning them in and reformatting them, I see the bones of stories
> that work just fine, once you get past the cardboard characters,
> screamingly bad dialog, awful world-building skills, and complete lack of
> internal consistency. Anyone out there who thinks they have no natural
> talent to write -- No. It's plain from the evidence that _I_ have no
> natural talent to write. So hang in there.
>
> Memory is treacherous. I thought that "November" was the oldest of my
> Continuing Time stories, but going through these ancient mss. I think I
> must be wrong. "November" is set in a recognizable Continuing Time --
there
> are no glaring continuity issues, no screeching lapses of terminology or
> whatever. (Well, one; the spacelace tunnels don't exist yet. There's a
> third stupid FTL drive instead of spacelace tunnels.) But aside from that,
> it's my universe as I recognize it today.
>
> "Camber" is barely recognizable as a Continuing Time story, except that
> people refer to the Continuing Time all through it. Camber's not even a
> night face, in this draft. (Night faces don't appear to exist; nor does
the
> Zaradin Church, which really startles me; they came in together and
they're
> an _old_ part of the CT.) But apparently this is older.
>
> After that I've got about 30 short stories I'm going to scan in; I may
post
> some of them, as written, on QOA. ("A Day in the Life of a Telephone
Pole,"
> in particular. I wrote it when I was 12 and it still works fine -- aliens
> invade the Earth in spaceships that look just like telephone polls. It's
so
> stupid it's charming.)
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> From: Daniel Moran <dkm_1 at pacbell.net>
> Subject: Re: [CT] QOA; fiction
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> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 16:20:51 -0800
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> Of course, QOA appears to be down at this moment, for the third time in a
> week. A "hacker" attack, according to ReadyHosting.com. Not incompetence.
> Really.
>
> At 03:51 PM 2/8/2002 -0800, I wrote:
> >I've added two Star Wars short stories to QueenOfAngels.com -- "A Barve
> >Like That," about Boba Fett; and "Empire Blues," which is about a
> >character you see for about two seconds in "Star Wars." A third and much
> >longer piece, "The Last One Standing," which follows Fett from his youth
> >to his old age, should be up sometime in the next week or so.
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> From: Daniel Moran <dkm_1 at pacbell.net>
> Subject: Re: [CT] Re: QOA; fiction
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> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 17:43:28 -0800
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> The broken URLs are fixed.
>
> That's the second time I've seen those links reformatted like that for no
> reason -- they were all like that after Readyhosting went down about a
week
> ago, and I fixed them all individually. Why just these two, this time,
> baffles me.
>
> That URL -- queenofangelscom.readyhosting.com -- is the URL I was given by
> Readyhosting to start building the site, before DNS had switched over. It
> keeps popping up again for no apparent reason.
>
> You know, I've run some _busy_ IIS websites -- at Launch we sometimes had
> 60,000 unique visitors an hour; at peak, VideoGreetings.com got a thousand
> or more, on much lighter hardware than Launch ran on. It's possible to
keep
> an IIS/SQL Server website up and running, honestly, though Readyhosting
> seems incapable of it, so far.
>
> At 05:32 PM 2/8/2002 -0800, David Silberstein wrote:
>
> >Strange things seem to have happened to 2 of the links - while the 2 star
> >wars tales are OK, the links to the earlier stories are:
> >
> >http://queenofangelscom.readyhosting.com/CT/LeftBehind.pdf
> >
> >http://queenofangelscom.readyhosting.com/Fic/OnSequoiaTime.pdf
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