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[hirez]

Via zotz comes this mad thing. This section especially reads a lot like the Ballard short story that was purely the index to a fictional biography. There's a good SF novel in 'cryptarchy', and unfortunately several already published rubbish ones.

Elsewhere, thunderbox stokes the steam elephants.

(Mithering about the bondage-and-discipline hoops one had to jump through when submitting a MS to the skiffy mob.)

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chrematophobia

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

i resolve to use this word a lot more when ranting about the nonworking classes.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Do you know Etymonline (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?e)?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I didn't, no.

Do you know Squarepusher?

[zotz]

Gene Wolfe has used at least two of those words prominently - chiliad and cacogen. And the ramifications of colporteur are obvious.

Mmm. In answer to your earlier question - the closest I could find is the Milford SF Writer's Conference.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ah. Ta. Looks slightly Catch-22, but I'll prod it with a stick.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly lookign forward to find excuses to use 'culacino' ('the mark left on the table by a moist glass').

Err - tell me more about the hoops - I take it you don't just mail off a slab of .txt ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Nah, they want it in traditional 'looks like it was boshed out on a portable Remington on the verandah of one's villa in the International Settlement', which looks like this. (http://www.sfwa.org/writing/vonda/mssprep.pdf) (A PDF)

Now of course this is just a document transform. About five minutes scattering markup through the document and another five hacking on the stylesheet in KWord. (Which is becoming non-horrible to use. Good.)

I'm only mithering because I've forgotten that I used to demand correctly-filled RIPE-141 forms from customers in a wierd sort of revenge for the pain and uncertainty caused by trying to fill in BT leased-line requests.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

You're going to need to do it actually really on the Remington at some point, you know. I'm sure it would prove instructive.