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Monthly Archives: November 2021
Building a Better Monster 1/4
This is part 1 of a speculative biology workshop I gave to Amber Royer’s Saturday Nite Write group. We had a great time with the first exercise: what would a mouse look like if it was the size of an … Continue reading
Fishes out of Water
Some experiments with walking fishes. Start with a fish (0) – this one is a teleost. Note the pectoral fins are right above (dorsal of) the pelvic fins. The first tetrapods (1) evolved from lobe-finned fishes with the pelvic fins … Continue reading
The City of Nuvil-La
What you’re looking at is the Saint Laurence river after a 60m rise in sea level, just south-west of Quebec city, where the Pierre-Laporte Bridge crosses the river. The old Bequa city is north of the river, centered on the … Continue reading
Announcement: Speculative Biology workshop
If you’re interested in specbio, you’re welcome at my workshop this Saturday “Making a Better Monster” hosted by @amber_royer and Saturday Night Write. If you don’t have access to facebook, it’s SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2021 AT 8 PM – 10 … Continue reading
October Newsletter: A Piece of My Mind
I rolled over angrily in bed.Enough of this! Enough of you, author-with-whom-I-disagree!I was going to give him a piece of my mind.I snatched for the cord of my light and pulled on it until it yielded the switch. Squinting, I … Continue reading
The Little Red-Hat
This one is dedicated to T. Mike Keesey. Does it work? (step 1: English) Once upon a time, there was a little girl whose granny loved her so much, that she bought the girl a red riding hood to … Continue reading
The Sheep and the Horses
(This post first appeared on my Patreon.) I’m thinking about an epic fantasy story. It’ll have ghosts, but ALSO, I want to make a dialect continuum. This is how a dialect continuum works: start out at, say, Lisbon, and travel … Continue reading