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April 16, 2007
New Bedford Book Underway at Long Bloody Last
Hello--you remember me, right? Well, if not--and it has been a bloody long time between posts--I'm a science fiction writer living in Perth, Western Australia.
Last anybody heard from me I was having a pretty bleak time, what with chronic daily headaches, dreadful crippling depression, and a very bad case of thinking seriously about packing in the whole writing caper.
Things change. In the very considerable time since I last posted about these things, the depression has cleared off. Even better, the headaches have, if not actually stopped altogether, then substantially eased off in both frequency and intensity. What happened was I got fed up with taking painkiller drugs that didn't actually kill any pain, and which, if you take enough of them, actually cause pain through the rebound effect. Upshot: within days of quitting painkillers, the headaches dropped away to being only an occasional problem, rather than the chronic misery they had been. I've concluded from this that the headaches were due to the painkillers I was practically living on to treat the headaches. This is the kind of thing I mean when I say that irony is the fifth fundamental force in the universe.
Anyway. Feeling MUCH better now. So much better, in fact, today I started my new book. It's called TIME MACHINES REPAIRED WHILE-U-WAIT. It's a near-future sf detective yarn about a guy who repairs busted time machines--and who one day finds a dead body inside one of those broken time machines. The background of the story is that time travel is as widely available and as popular as cars, etc. Everybody's got a time machine, and they're having a fabulous time bopping about all over the past and future. Story concerns a guy named "Spider" Webb, an ex-cop who's stuck fixing these machines because it's the only sort of job he could get. He absolutely hates time machines, and time travel generally.
I'm only 1500 words in so far, but it's a good start, and I hope to get more done in the coming days. Publisher Brian has told me I have to get it finished by the end of August, in order to fit a publication slot he's put aside for me in next year's EDGE lineup. With a bit of luck it should be available in time for next year's Worldcon in Denver, CO.
I plan to post more now that I've got a book to write and to write about, but we'll see. I am doing way better than last time you heard from me, though. Am reading lots of books, loving the world of Linux (currently very happily using Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" and looking forward to the release of the next version). Michelle and I have finally caught up with the DVDs for Firefly, too, which really was as good as everybody said. Amazing!
More soon.
Posted by adrian at April 16, 2007 10:24 PM
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Good to see you, old bean! Knowing you, you've already given paradoxes lots of thought. I can't wait to see what kind of fun you'll come up with. Go get 'em!
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at April 19, 2007 11:54 PM
The new book sounds interesting and a lot of fun. Have you figured out how to deal with the potential disasters and paradoxes from so many people rampaging through the past and screwing things up?
Great to hear about the headaches too. I know they really make things difficult for you so here's hoping they bugger off for good!
Take care. : )
Posted by: Cheyenne at April 18, 2007 09:52 AM
yay! good news. glad things are MUCH better. been missing ya around the blog. also happy to hear about the new book underway and the decrease in headaches.
and yup, firefly is awesome. :)
Posted by: river selkie at April 17, 2007 09:43 AM
Glad to hear you're better. I've never suffered from headaches or really severe depression but the little bit I have makes me glad I haven't.
Looking forward to the new book :D I just wonder how you're going to deal with all the potential changes people make zipping backwards and forwards.
Posted by: kkjayne at April 17, 2007 09:23 AM
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