Necroepilogos, tempestas - 12.11
Added 2024-10-17 02:56:08 +0000 UTCNot all who watch are making plans; some just like to listen. But an eye in the sky (or up on a hull) is invaluable in a house full of the undead.
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An epub of the chapter is also attached below!
And we're back once again, dear readers! Once again beneath the storm, deep in the tomb, down in the dark. Behind the scenes I thiiiiiink arc 12 is going to round out almost exactly as I planned, at 15 chapters, probably! I've got the next two arcs lined up and planned as well, and I will probably be separating them out, rather than rolling them into arc 12, just to keep the narrative organisation nice and snappy!
As for Elpida and the others, well ... we'll see how they react, as plans unfold. Right now things are cozy and quiet, even if a little bloody and raw, beneath the pounding rainstorm and howling winds outdoors. But there's nowhere to run, if things get messy. How long can a cannibal truce hold? Let's find out.
Comments
It's a side-novel in a much larger series, The Vorkosigan Saga. Which is a pretty decent military science fiction series, I can certainly recommend it.
Hazel Young
2024-10-17 16:08:07 +0000 UTCI haven't read Falling Free, I'll have to give it a look.
Kennyevilmonkey
2024-10-17 15:14:42 +0000 UTC"Party poopers coming to shit in the picnic basket" made me giggle, thank you! All Tomorrows is quite relevant to Necroepilogos, indeed; I've never actually read the whole book myself, but I've seen some of the illustrations from it, and I suspect that similar ideas influenced some of the stuff which in turn influenced me with Necro. The direct influence for people modifying themselves for life in space stations comes from a bunch of different science fiction books I've read, but in this case I was drawing heavily on the 'Quaddies' from the novel Falling Free.
Hazel Young
2024-10-17 13:04:30 +0000 UTCTrouble is a brewing! We got some party poopers coming to shit in the picnic basket! As an aside, the people living on the space stations and changing themselves to better live out there in space, that got me thinking of that weird Sci-Fi story, All Tomorrows. Actually, thinking about it further, it is funny how similar Necroepilogos is to that one in some ways, with how these girls are changing and evolving themselves, even to the point of being nearly unrecognizable as human beings, and almost something alien. Only instead of it being genetic engineering going too far, it's nanomachines.
Kennyevilmonkey
2024-10-17 04:32:13 +0000 UTC
