Christopher L. Bennett's Blog

Since I haven’t been earning much money from subscriptions to my Patreon — which these days has little to offer except my weekly reviews and very infrequent fiction posts, since I’m not a fast enough writer to come up with exclusive fiction content regularly — I’ve finally decided to take advantage of the feature that lets non-members buy individual posts or collections of posts for a one-time payment. I don’t know if I’ll sell much this way, but it’s worth a try. Some people might be more willing to pay a one-time fee for permanent access to a story or collection than to pay a subscription for monthly access, even though my subscription prices are extremely low.

The stories in my Original Fiction tier are now available to purchase for $3 each, which is more than I wanted to charge, but it’s the minimum Patreon will allow. Partly because of that, I felt it made sense to sell complete collections of my TV review series rather than individual review posts. The review collections are available to purchase for $12 each, or $10 for the shorter ones. My fiction collections — Troubleshooters, Arachne Universe, and General Fiction — are $18 each, and include access to annotations from the Behind the Scenes tier and artwork from the Tip Jar tier as well as the stories. This is quite a discount compared to buying the stories individually, but comparable to the price of a story collection, so it seemed reasonable. (It didn’t make sense to offer annotations individually if I couldn’t go below $3, particularly since the annotations for the Patreon stories collected in Aleyara’s Descent and Other Stories are now available for free here on Written Worlds.)

Of course, a fair number of the stories on Patreon are now available in my print collections, but if someone’s curious about the collections, maybe they could buy a story there to see if they’re interested enough to buy the whole books. And the majority of the stories are still exclusive to Patreon (at least for now), as are my review series.

Unfortunately, Apple’s iOS app has set things up in a way that they charge a fee of about 45% extra if you buy through that rather than through other means like PayPal, and it seems that’s the only way to buy outside the US at the current time. Sorry about that.

Incidentally, Patreon has recently updated its software so that you can now offer the early part of a post as a free preview, so when I edited my fiction posts to add sale prices, I also moved down the “Paid access starts here” bar to give readers a little taste of the stories, which hopefully might spark a few sales.

One more weird little thing happened at Shore Leave that I forgot to mention. On Friday evening, my first night at the con, I noticed that my right little finger was sore around the knuckle, but I didn’t know why. Saturday morning, I was startled to look at it and see it was lividly bruised, since I still had no recollection of hurting it. My best guess was that I’d banged it on something while wrestling with my luggage.

On my trip back, though, I stopped for the night at a motel from the same chain I’d stayed at going out, and when I took a shower before bed, I pulled one of the shower’s heavy sliding glass doors shut and banged my left middle finger’s knuckle between the door and the wall. The same thing must have happened to my right knuckle at the other motel on the trip out. Although it could’ve also happened my first night or morning at the Shore Leave hotel, since it had very nearly the same shower design. I have to wonder why such dangerous shower doors are so popular.

On the plus side, though, my right knuckle’s bruise had cleared up by Sunday, and the left one never bruised at all, so I guess it didn’t get pinched as hard.

Sorry it took me so long to follow up on my Shore Leave experience. I was a bit more out of it than usual on this trip, forgetting things like I mentioned in my previous post, and having my usual issue with lack of sleep in new places. My new, lighter laptop was easier to bring along, but I didn’t feel up to getting any writing done. Actually I’ve sort of been in a development phase, setting aside my story in progress to try to break a new one for an open-call anthology. I’d been thinking about doing a fantasy story in my Thayara universe, and on the trip back, I had the thought that I could do an Arachne-Troubleshooter Universe SF story on the same theme, maybe even write and submit them both to the same anthology, if they’d allow it. I spent a lot of the drive home trying to settle on an idea for that — but once I got home, I checked the parameters again and saw it’s fantasy only. So that was a dead-end digression.

Anyway, my last Shore Leave post was on around 5:30 Friday, and the one significant thing I did after that was the Meet the Pros event at 10:00. It’s been a long time since MtP was particularly busy for me in terms of sales, but I did sell two books and got an “I’ll look for it on Kindle” for a third. And of course, the last half-hour before midnight is usually just a chance for the authors to wander around and chat with each other because all the customers have gone away, although this time it did stay active a little longer than usual.

On Saturday morning, I found that my room’s coffee maker was broken, so I went down to try the hotel’s breakfast buffet that I’d learned about from a Facebook post. It turned out to cost $21 in advance for what was little more than the kind of continental breakfast I’d get for free at a motel. In retrospect, I would’ve been better off just getting coffee and a bowl of cereal from the Starbucks in the lobby. Since I got charged so much, I tried to eat as big a breakfast as I could and take a couple of pieces of fruit with me for later. Ideally I should’ve taken more stuff for later, but I didn’t have anything to put it in.

On Saturday afternoon, after an uneventful half-hour signing session at the Aaron’s Books table, I had four panels in five hours. The eSpec Books panel was in the hotel’s big ballroom, which was very disproportionate to the small number of panelists and audience members (and has bizarrely blinding light fixtures so that I had to wear my sunglasses), so we held the panel as a round table, literally — the panelists on one side of the table and the audience on the other. Danielle McPhail talked a lot about the company and how she came to found it and all the things they publish, so I really didn’t get to talk specifically about Aleyara’s Descent — but that’s okay, since it let me save my energies for the rest of the afternoon. After all, I was randomly assigned the moderator role for the audio drama panel that followed, and rather than try to foist it off on someone else, I did my best to rise to the occasion, though there were a couple of moments when I needed Glenn Hauman to backstop me. It was an interesting discussion about the different approaches to audio drama, whether it’s like the Big Finish Doctor Who and other audios that rely entirely on dialogue and sound effects or the GraphicAudio approach which combines that with novelistic narration. My friend David Mack teased the Star Trek: Khan audio drama he’s co-writing with our mutual friend and big-time TV producer Kirsten Beyer, though he had to avoid specifics because they’re embargoed until San Diego Comic-Con in a couple of weeks. I was intrigued to discover that Dave and I both had fathers who were radio announcers. We’ve been friends for a couple of decades now and I didn’t know that about him.

The next panel was about upcoming Star Trek books, which I really didn’t have much to contribute to; I’d applied for the panel at a time when I hoped I’d have something to announce, but it didn’t work out for the current year, at least. After an hour off for a meal break, I finished up with a panel on using history in writing fantasy/SF, which I talked about mainly in terms of letting my history scholarship inform my science fiction about alien contacts and cultures, like my “Aleyara” stories, which are basically historical fiction set in an alien planet’s history. I was the odd one out there, since most of the other panelists do alternate history or historical fantasy. I moderated that panel as well, though, which gave me something to do when I didn’t have much to say about my own work.

After checking out of my room Sunday morning, I just hung around and tried to pass the time until my 1:30 signing session. I’d considered just hanging around the eSpec table in the dealers’ room for a while, but the noise was kind of overwhelming me and I was feeling pretty out of it, so I went outside to walk around where it was relatively quiet. I wandered around to the back of the hotel until a guy drove up in a golf cart and offered to give me a ride to the front entrance, which I was tired enough to accept, though I banged my knee on the seat in front of me when I got out. I’d assumed he was off on some other errand and just decided to be generous, but I later realized that it was his specific job to drive around the lot offering people rides to the lobby or to their cars, which is a pretty nice service for the hotel to provide.

Anyway, I decided to occupy myself by watching a panel, but I was really sleepy and out of it. I felt better after I went to the lobby Starbucks and got a coffee and a slice of pie. I was going to get just regular coffee, but I saw the clerk preparing a caffe mocha for the customer before me and decided I wanted one too, which turned out to be a good choice. It woke me up enough for my final signing, and though I was expecting Sunday afternoon to be as dead as it was last year, this session actually went pretty well. I sold two books from my own stock and a few more from the copies I contributed to Aaron’s Books on consignment. At the end of the day, when I reclaimed my unsold books from the consignment, they bought two each of my Trek books to sell at their store, and wrote me a check for the whole lot.

The drive home was pretty routine, aside from some rainy weather. I made it as far as New Stanton, PA on Sunday afternoon, stopping before the sun got low enough to shine directly in my eyes as I drove west. On Monday, I hoped to wait around until the rain cleared up, but that would’ve taken most of the day, so I had to drive in the rain and hope to avoid the worst of it. Luckily it was mostly mild to moderate, and my plan to wait out the heavier bits at rest areas gave way to just driving through in hopes of getting past the far end of the rain as soon as I could. Once I crossed over into Ohio, I thought about getting off at St. Clairsville, going to the mall that had held the garage that fixed my flat tire on Thursday, and finding a place there to have lunch and sit out the rain. But when I checked the map navigation for getting there, I saw that it was farther back from the exit than I’d recalled, which felt like going the wrong way, so I just kept on driving.

Eventually I stopped for fuel and lunch at an isolated station/convenience store near Thornville, Ohio, which had a built-in fast-food place called Tic Tac Taco. I was tempted to try the tacos, since I haven’t had one in quite a while, but I ended up having a burrito instead, eating at one of the few tables in the corner while I did some reading on my phone. Then I bought a cup of coffee for the road, and I decided to try another mocha from the convenience store’s coffee machines, but this one was so heavy on the chocolate that I couldn’t even taste the coffee.

After that was pretty uneventful, except that when I stopped at the recently expanded rest area some 67 miles north of Cincinnati, I smiled at a wall display talking about the Museum Center at Union Terminal, which appears in the new Superman movie as the Hall of Justice, since it was the original inspiration for the Hall’s design in Super Friends back in the ’70s. A man standing next to me asked if I’d seen the movie yet, and I talked to him instead about the real history of the Terminal and some of my own personal history visiting there and briefly working there as a guide. (It’s going to be weird going to that movie and seeing superheroes doing stuff inside a location I’ve personally been to and know fairly well.)

I got home around 3:30, and decided to take all my bags in with me in one trip, which is easier than before now that I have two rolling suitcases. It worked pretty well, except that I belatedly realized that the tote bag I’d had draped over the handle of its companion suitcase had somehow vanished by the time I got to my apartment. I rushed downstairs and found it sitting just outside the building door, apparently having slipped loose of the handle somehow and getting forgotten. I’m fortunate that nobody took it, although there was nothing in it except some empty plastic containers and food and drink packaging.

I’ve spent the past couple of days recuperating, going to bed early and actually getting fuller nights’ sleep than I’ve had in quite a while. Although somehow my hip decided to act up and start hurting yesterday morning, after being fine through all my exertions on the trip. I also found that I’ve apparently lost the piece of paper that I noted my book sales on, though I had the information on my phone too. I just went down to double-check if it was in the car, but it’s not there and I’ve checked everywhere it could’ve been. My best guess is that I left it behind at the Aaron’s Books table, which was the last place I know I had it.

Oh, one more odd thing: Even though the suction cups on my car’s solar battery tender keep coming loose from the windshield every time I leave it parked unused for a few days, somehow they remained firmly attached through over a thousand miles of highway driving. It’s a Shore Leave miracle!

Speaking of driving, I just worked out my gas mileage for the trip, and the car managed a bit over 31 MPG on the highway, which is within the typical range of its performance. Gas prices were around 3 bucks in Ohio, about 3.25 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I probably had enough gas on Friday to make it all the way to the hotel, but I decided to fill up before leaving the Turnpike just in case — only to see that the gas station just blocks away from the hotel had the cheapest gas price I’d seen the whole trip. I should’ve held out. But maybe it worked out, since filling up earlier meant I didn’t need to get quite as much gas at the higher price.

The one thing I have left to do is to file the insurance claim for my flat tire, to get reimbursed for part of the tow-truck charge. But the insurance company isn’t making it easy. The main website says you have to fax the receipt — who even has a fax anymore, and how do I fax an electronic receipt? — and I couldn’t get past the recorded menu on the phone to talk to a real person and gave up in frustration. I finally found an e-mail contact form on the site for my local insurance agent, and I’m waiting to hear back about how to submit the claim.

So that’s it for this year’s Shore Leave. I didn’t achieve all I’d hoped, and I spent more than I hoped, and wasted some of what I spent on food by forgetting to bring it. And I can’t say I was entirely satisfied with the hotel. But it was nice to see my friends and colleagues again, and some of my readers as well.

Good news, adventure fans! Now through October 11 at Audiobooks.com, Tangent Knights 1: Caprice of Fate is on sale for $10.00, 50% off its usual cover price. (Well, technically it’s 49.975% off, but it rounds up.)

50% OFF Caprice of Fate [Dramatized Adaptation]: Tangent Knights 1

As a bonus, if you sign up for Audiobooks.com, you can get two more audiobooks for free — so you could get the entire 21-hour Tangent Knights trilogy, a full season’s worth of tokusatsu action with a hard science fiction twist, for just ten bucks!

As I was just telling people at the audiobooks panel at the Shore Leave Convention, Tangent Knights is one of my proudest achievements — the first work that I plotted and wrote as a full trilogy, with an evolving, escalating story arc that takes all its main characters through complex journeys. Drawing on the rich drama, characterization, and humor of tokusatsu really enriched the work, and I’m really proud of how it turned out. The actors and the team at GraphicAudio did an excellent job bringing my words to life.

Graphic Audio ORIGINALS presents a Science Fiction Trilogy with a Superhero Theme.

Set roughly half a century in the future on the artificial-island arcology of New Avalon, Tangent Knights centers on Corazón “Cory” Kagami, a bright but impulsive college student who believes in following her passions, resisting the path laid out for her by her mother, the head of a tech conglomerate responsible for astonishing breakthroughs. When Cory is accidentally imbued with an extraordinary powerful “phase armor” during a botched experiment, she defies the expectations of those who underestimated her and readily embraces a superheroic role as Tangent Knight Caprice. Over the course of the trilogy, she breaks through into new worlds and unlocks progressively greater powers, perhaps faster than her judgment can keep up, to the point that Cory herself becomes the ultimate threat her allies must confront.

Performed by Richard Rohan, Elaine Yuko Qualter, Bianca Bryan, John Kielty, Tony Nam, Daniel Llaca, Yesenia Iglesias, Emilea Wilson, Duyen Washington, Kay Eluvian, Nazia Chauhdry, Niusha Nawab, Marni Penning, Rob McFadyen, Robb Moreira, and Triya Leong.

Well, I set out for Shore Leave yesterday around 1 PM, planning to make about half the journey Thursday afternoon and the rest Friday morning. It pretty much worked out that way, except that a little after six, just short of the Ohio/West Virginia border, I heard a familiar sound and realized I needed to pull over to the shoulder, just before I started to smell the burning rubber. Yep, for the second time in four years, I got a flat tire. And it’s symmetrical, since that was the left rear tire on the way back from the convention, and this was the right front tire on the way to the con. Ironically, I’d made a point of checking the tires at the rest stop I’d left shortly before, and they all looked perfectly intact. The state trooper who stopped by to check on me after I called for help suggested that something may have hit the tire and torn it, but the tow truck driver thought it was also possible that it had just blown out, though he didn’t rule out an impact. (Ironically, back at the very start of my drive, less than half a mile after I got onto the freeway from my home neighborhood, I had to swerve a bit to avoid a ladder that must have fallen off a truck and was right there in my lane. The adjoining lanes weren’t clear, so I had to just scooch over within the lane and pray I cleared it all the way, which I barely did.)

But it could’ve been a lot worse. Since I have front-wheel drive, I’d always feared that if a front tire blew out at highway speed, I’d go spinning out of control or something. Instead, I had no loss of performance or steering at all that I noticed, though maybe that’s just because I caught it soon enough to pull over. And I happened to be just half a mile from the St. Clairsville, Ohio exit, so it only took a few minutes for the tow driver to take me to the garage the patrolman had recommended, which was fortunately open until 8:30 and had the right size of tire in stock. And as it happened, the garage was in the same shopping center as a motel of the chain I usually stay at on my Shore Leave trips. I’d been planning to stop for the night fairly soon anyway, so it didn’t make much difference, except that if the tire hadn’t blown out, I probably would’ve made it another hour and stopped somewhere in Pennsylvania.

Weirdly, my GPS this year didn’t detour me around Wheeling, WV via I-470, as it usually does to avoid the lower speed limit on I-70 passing through the city. I don’t know why, but I’d guess maybe there was construction slowing down traffic on 470, or something.

So anyway, the rest of my drive this morning and afternoon was straightforward, and the new suitcase and backpack cooler I bought did indeed make it a bit easier to bring my bags into the hotel, though the cooler is a bit less roomy than my old insulated grocery bag, so I needed a second bag to carry my non-chilled foods in. And that’s even though I forgot to bring the cereal bars and carrot sticks I bought for the trip, and gave up on bringing the big jug of iced tea I bought because there just wasn’t room for it. I also forgot my usual pencil, pen, and notepad, though I have other pens.

Speaking of which, the first thing I did after showering and resting a bit was to take five copies each of Only Superhuman, Star Trek: The Original Series: The Higher Frontier, and Star Trek: TOS: Living Memory to the Aaron’s Books table in the dealers’ room for them to sell on consignment during the con. They’ll be available there all weekend, and copies of my eSpec Books titles will be available at the eSpec table nearby. I’ll also have copies of a few of my other books for sale at Meet the Pros tonight at 10PM to midnight, and I’ll have signing sessions at the Aaron’s Books table Saturday from 2:30-3:00 PM and Sunday from 1:30-2:00 PM. I hope I sell a lot of books, since thanks to my flat tire, this trip has already cost me over $200 more than I expected.

We’re now just over a week away from Shore Leave 45, the convention’s second year at the Lancaster Wyndham Resort and Convention Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the schedule of events has now been posted online.

https://www.shore-leave.com/mobile-schedule/

You can click on “People” and then on the individual names to find their panel schedules. As for me, aside from the annual Friday night Meet the Pros event, all my panels are going to be in one marathon block on Saturday afternoon, with only an hour off for dinner. I also find that I’ve been selected as moderator for two of the panels, though I don’t know how that happened. Anyway, here’s how it boils down:

Friday, July 11

10 PM, Wheatland: Meet the Pros

This event allows the attendees to see and chat with all of our author, artist and science-author guests at the same time. We will have our bookseller “Aaron’s Books” in the room so that you can buy and get your books autographed by your favorite authors. You are more than welcome to bring your own books as well. Shore Leave is proud to host Book Premieres every year at the convention.

Saturday, July 12

3 PM, Ballroom A: eSpec Books

Danielle Ackley-McPhail (moderator), Christine Norris, Christopher L. Bennett , Mike McPhail

Visit with us and find out about all the new books we have coming out.

4 PM, Cornwall: Sounds Good! F/SF Audio Dramas

Christopher L. Bennett (moderator), Matthew Corey, Glenn Hauman , David Mack , Susan Olesen

For years Big Finish has produced Doctor Who audio dramas; now Star Trek is in the mix. Join a discussion of this exciting format’s future.

5 PM, Ballroom A: Star Trek Books Gab Session

Dayton Ward (moderator), Christopher L. Bennett , Greg Cox , David Mack , Scott Pearson

Trek writers and editors discuss the latest published Star Trek novels, tease upcoming releases, and answer your questions (if they can).

7 PM, Cornwall: Stealing from History

Christopher L. Bennett (moderator), Ian Randal Strock, Michael Jan Friedman , Roberta Rogow , Laura Ware

How do you use history in historical fiction/fantasy/alternative history and steal historical incidents and structures for standalone novels? Come find out!

Naturally, the eSpec panel is where we’ll tout my new collection Aleyara’s Descent and Other Stories, which I didn’t get to talk about at last year’s panel and which ended up getting delayed nearly a year anyway. Hopefully I’ll also get to talk some about the Arachne novels and the upcoming third installment. The audiobooks panel will be a chance to talk about Tangent Knights and my other work with GraphicAudio. Unfortunately, I won’t have any new Star Trek books to talk about on the “Gab Session” panel; I was hoping I might, but things didn’t work out at this time.

Anyway, I’ve been making preparations here and there. I bought a new suitcase a while back to replace the old one whose zipper broke, but I realized last year that it was awkward to have 4-5 bags, only one of which had wheels so that the rest had to be carried. So recently, I decided to buy a second, smaller wheeled suitcase. As it happened, the lowest-priced one I could find came with a bonus tote bag, so I got two bags for less than the price of one. I don’t know if I’ll even use the tote bag, but it was free, so what the hey. I also decided just the other day to buy a backpack-style cooler to replace the worn-out insulated grocery bag I’ve used for years to carry my food and beverages in on road trips. I saw it at the store one day and decided to go back and buy it the next, and luckily it was 20% off by then. I’ve determined that it is theoretically possible to carry both my regular backpack and the cooler backpack over my shoulders at the same time, at least when the cooler is empty, but it might prove more difficult once both bags are packed up. With my back, it might not be a great idea. But it has other carrying straps, so I have options. Anyway, I think I should be able to manage with just the two suitcases and two backpacks, and I’ve got a considerably lighter laptop now, which should help.

With no panels on Friday before Meet the Pros, I was tempted to try leaving early Friday morning and making the drive in one day, so I wouldn’t have to pay for a motel stay Thursday night. But I think that’s probably a bad idea for a number of reasons. So I expect to hit the road a week from today. I got my car maintenance and safety check done last week, and I also got a couple of overdue vaccinations, though I’m concerned that I wasn’t able to get a COVID booster. Luckily, infection rates seem to be low currently, from what I can find. Last year, I spent a lot of the con unmasked and came through it fine, though that was with a fresh vaccination.

I hope to see a lot of my fans at the con next weekend, and I hope a lot of you will buy my books and help me pay for the expenses of the trip!

Today’s the day! Aleyara’s Descent and Other Stories is now on sale in print and e-book form. Hopefully those of you who preordered the e-book have already gotten it, and those who preordered the print book should see it in the mail soon. And if you didn’t preorder, you can get it right away from the following vendors or wherever you purchase books:

As a reminder, the discussion page for the stories in the collection is already up, complete with links to all the spoiler annotations.

As a bonus, to commemorate the release of this collection featuring multiple stories that debuted on my Patreon, I’ve finally posted a new short story, “Birth of Knowledge,” on my Patreon’s Fiction level. Well, it’s actually an old story that I wrote in 1997 and never sold. I set it aside with an eye toward trying to rework it, but lost track of it over the years. Looking back at it now, I realized there was little chance of reworking it into a marketable story, as a number of its predictions about the development of the internet are quaint in retrospect. Yet I think it has some ideas that are interesting and relevant to the current debate over so-called artificial intelligence, so I figured it was worth publishing for my Patreon subscribers. Everyone at the $3/month level and above can read the story here:

Fiction: “Birth of Knowledge”

And of course, I also have an annotations page for the story on the $5 level.

I’ve just discovered that my 2006 novel X-Men: Watchers on the Walls, the first of my two entries in Pocket Books’ Marvel Comics line, has finally been released as an e-book. (Apparently it came out in February, but nobody told me until now.) I’ve updated my website’s Marvel pages with ordering info, but here it is again:

For years, many have believed that the rise of superpowered mutants represents a threat to the survival of ordinary humans. The uncanny X-Men have dedicated their lives to proving that peaceful coexistence is possible. When a refugee spacecraft crashes on Earth, hounded by a warship bent on its destruction, the X-Men race to the rescue — only to learn that it carries beings of an entirely different order whose very existence may jeopardize life as we know it.

Now, facing a direct threat to all life on Earth, the X-Men grapple with an impossible moral dilemma — to defend the aliens whose only crime is being born different . . . or to embrace the methods of those who have long condemned mutantkind, joining forces with their own greatest persecutors to go hunt down their common enemy and end the evolutionary menace, once and for all.

Ebook:

Order from:

Audiobook:

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Mass-market paperback (out of print):

Order from Amazon

Since my other Marvel novel, Spider-Man: Drowned in Thunder, is back in print as part of the Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours omnibus, that means both my Marvel novels are finally easily available in both e-book and audio form, though anyone who wants a print copy of Watchers will have to track down a used one. Unfortunately, I don’t get any royalties from new sales of these books, but I’m proud of the work I did on them and glad that more people will have the chance to experience them.

I’ve spent most of the past couple of days putting together the guide page for Aleyara’s Descent and Other Stories and the individual story annotation pages it links to. The main page is here:

Aleyara’s Descent and Other Stories

This has been quite an undertaking, since only four of the stories had been professionally published before, so I had to reprint my Patreon annotations for most of the rest and write new annotations for the previously unpublished “Early Warning Systems.” I also had to revise the annotation pages with the page numbers from the print edition, and make other edits as needed.

As it happens, I got my print copies in the mail today as well! We’re still about three and a half weeks from general release, but you can get your preorders in now.

Now that Aleyara’s Descent and Other Stories is finally complete and scheduled for publication on July 1, the preorder information has gone out to the major book dealers, including the following:

The e-book edition of the collection has already been sent out to our Kickstarter backers, and I have my e-book copy too. Thus, I’ve already gotten started on putting together a dedicated page for the collection here on the site, like the page for Among the Wild Cybers, putting all the story notes and annotation links together in one place. I’ll be reprinting my annotations from the Patreon releases here on Written Worlds, and I’ll amend all the annotations with page numbers for the collection. It might take a few days, since there are 11 stories to wrangle together, and I’m also in the middle of writing a new short story for an open-call anthology.