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The Angel and the Swarm

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Last week, while on a zoom with a few friends on mine, one asked "what are you writing?" I was a bit stunned at the question. I'm always writing, to start with, but also I didn't realise this particular friend knew that I wrote at all. "Anything sci fi?" they asked. "Yeah," I said. "A book about a kid in space." "Sounds awesome. Tell me more." I struggled to find words to sum up this 800 page behemoth I'd been writing for years, but I ploughed ahead. I've always been one to write enormous novels, and summing my work up...

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Pronouns

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It's international Pronoun day, and for those going through gender transitions or trying to decide what they want to be called, respect their decision, as you respect mine to be called she/her/hers. I once had a thought while watching a re-run of Star Trek Voyager that those aliens the Trek encountered were often mirrors of our own, with two sexes. Why not have more? Why not require three different sexes to procreate? And with that, why do they have to have humanoid pronouns of He/Her/She/They? So I made up some and wrote a short story. The Paonen people have three...

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