[CT] Re: ct-announce digest, Vol 1 #17 - 3 msgs-Ola Blue Stories

Sat, 09 Feb 2002 15:52:01 -0800

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You're talking about the outline for a possible Ola Blue tv series? They're 
on Kithrup.com -- they'll probably stay there, too. I'm going to make a 
pretty good effort to get all the fiction I have lying around on QOA, but 
there's a lot of stuff on Kithrup that'll probably stay there -- Sean Fagan 
and David Silberstein have put in a lot of work putting that site together, 
and I'm really not interested in duplicating it at QOA.

At 10:55 AM 2/9/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>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@pacbell.net>
> > To: continuing-time@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@pacbell.net>
> > Subject: Re: [CT] QOA; fiction
> > To: continuing-time@ralf.org
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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@pacbell.net>
> > Subject: Re: [CT] Re: QOA; fiction
> > To: continuing-time@ralf.org
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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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