Archive for August, 2006
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006So, my biggest news is that I’ve started doing some paid blogging. It’s nothing I’m going to quit my job over, but it’s a nice entry into this kind of thing. I’m writing for two blogs, both under the general aegis of Blog Republic. One, fitness related, is at http://www.featherish.com/blog and the other, focusing on [...]
Gusev: Forty-Seven
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006Spinal Docking Bay 2 Misha emerged from the lift and crept down the Level 0 corridor, his lock boots scuffing the rubberized deck plating. At the end, the airlock door hissed open for him and he slipped inside. You did that, right? The door should have required him to scan in through a retinal reader [...]
Gusev: Forty-Six
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Docks ‘n’ Locks Main Office, Achebe Complex “Hey, what are you doing here?” “Oh hey,” Misha replied, turning to the main desk. Isidra, whose last name he’d remember in a moment, sat behind at the reception station. Her eyes–one green, one purple today–looked him up and down twice, a sign of suspicion from her. No [...]
Gusev: Forty-Five
Friday, August 25th, 2006Public Safety Office “Gone?” “Signal’s disappeared, Mr. Timm.” Aracelis Vicario looked up from her display, mouth set in a thin line and brow furrowed, the frustration aging her youthful face. “Damnit,” Hanson Timm replied, his hands on top of his head as he stared at the monitors. Gusev, of course, appeared to be sitting in [...]
Gusev: Forty-Four
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Achebe Complex Library The library ran the length of the Achebe Complex, precisely in the center of the massive cylindrical structure. In fact, the library consisted of a dozen or so specialized Libraries and Collections, interconnected and interdependent. The library system had been the first component designed by Sagan’s founders, and as such it dominated [...]
Gusev: Forty-Three
Monday, August 21st, 2006DiLaura’s Bistro, Schiller Complex Into every agent’s life comes a contact, or colleague, or potential source that inspires thoughts of brutal strangulation. Inevitably, in those situations, manual asphyxiation of the subject ranks very high on the list of bad ideas, often just shy of “gibber like a madman,” but always higher than “surrender to the [...]
Gusev: Forty-Two
Friday, August 18th, 2006DiLaura’s Bistro, Schiller Complex As he ran, Misha marveled that it had taken almost 30 hours for his conversion of Estelle “to the cause” to backfire on him. He had not planned for it to work out that way, but he hoped to salvage something from it, even if that something was sowing more chaos [...]
Gusev: Forty-One
Thursday, August 17th, 2006Brodsky Arts Center, Achebe Complex Misha had worked for years on suppressing the Russian accent in his English, making it as flat as possible. What he had never been able to do was turn on a different sort of accent, and he figured that could be problematic right now if he chose wrong. He had [...]
Blog Flog Glog Slog Clog Vlog Plog…
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006And so on. M.J. Rose, at Buzz, Balls, & Hype, weighs in on the question of author blogging, especially with respect to a recent effort by Tor’s parent company, Holtzbrink, to encourage authors in this wonderful world of the blog. Ms. Rose uses the announcement to discuss the differences between commercially-motivated blogs, attempting to directly [...]
Gusev: Forty
Monday, August 14th, 2006Brodsky Arts Center, Achebe Complex While Eric again spoofed the video surveillance system, Misha waited for his best opportunity to approach the girl following him. The opening came at the change of classes, as students vacated their classrooms en masse and began heading to jobs or other classes or back to bed. The flow obscured [...]
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