Part Time Grue

While we don't have any settlement at Tycho Crater we already see where everything-as-a-service is going. Digital textbooks arrived as Richard Stallman predicted far, far sooner than 2096. My daughter pays 50% of the price of a physical textbook that would arguably last a lifetime or more for a digital text that is available for one year. Please don't tell me that textbooks are only good for a year. That's completely disingenuous on so many levels. I'm rather concerned that unless we resist, resist, resist, and resist even more, we will see the end of public libraries far sooner than Stallman's fictional 2047 date. There are far too many moral outrage groups stalking the halls of government, attempting and often succeeding in tearing out any literature that shows there are alternatives to living exactly as they imagine Maybe I'm being too reactionary or paranoid. But I really don't think so. If anything, I am being far, far too polite and civilized. I ca...

Four-and-a-half years since I was able to spend any significant time on the novels.  It's not a lack of time. I just can't manage to be interested in continuing the story of Daefydt den Wroekuden.  When I look at the word counts from 2020 it's even more disappointing. A total of 397,185 words.  Every time I consider returning, I keep pushing back how early I need to start the story.  Maybe the trick is to do it in flashbacks only when it's necessary.