Paste a passage from your favourite speculative fiction, replacing all the proper nouns with “Lemmy”. Then I’ll try to guess where it came from without using google :)
Paste a passage from your favourite speculative fiction, replacing all the proper nouns with “Lemmy”. Then I’ll try to guess where it came from without using google :)
Haha, sounds like Mass Effect and DOOM had a baby. Is he launching with a chainsaw? Feels like military sci fi anyway – there’s a tone to it, and an action action action pace. Like it’s just another day in the coal mines, but today is the day Lemmy will wake up a space monster. But also there’s a hint that the writer has some grounding in the real – like the fact that it’s monitors rather than windows. Feels like Scalzi maybe? How far off the mark am I?
I’m just recalling the first chapter of Children of Time, and it took a whole chapter to launch an emergency capsule from a space station. Admittedly, the chapter was scene setting for the rest of the story, but there is almost the same amount of action in that whole first chapter as there is in this paragraph.
It’s “Synthesis” by A. Omukai, but you’d want to read “Emergent” first. It’s kind of a Cyberpunk/Urban Fantasy crossover, cloak and dagger style.
Scalzi is awesome. I got introduced to him with Old Man’s War, was a fun series (still need to read Zoe some day).