Continuing from yesterday: “Mithridates, He Died Old,” by Nancy Kress. A little over 3000 words, third person past and limited. The POV switches back and forth between two characters: a woman who has just suffered traumatic brain injury in a … Continue reading →
Launcelot rides off into the sunset, ready for a new adventure! Which is to say, that first adventure he was on, which got disrupted by Lionel’s disappearance. Soon he’s back in the general vicinity of where he lost Lionel. Malory … Continue reading →
First a little bit of bookkeeping. On Asimovs.com, the editors of the magazine publish excerpts from the current issue, which excerpts I can calculate the word count of easily, then compare to the page count of those excerpts in the … Continue reading →
Becca actually beat Launcelot to the abbey, since Launcelot was delayed a chapter with the comic/homophobic misadventure. She greets him with a hug and makes sure he gets a shower and a change of clothes before sending for her father, … Continue reading →
Hours later a maiden comes in with Launcelot’s dinner. Let’s call her Becca. Have I used Becca? I don’t think I have. Becca comes in with a plate of cold stew for Launcelot, and a pitcher of ale, and she … Continue reading →
I’m a US citizen and today is Election Day here. So, in honor of Election Day (and to correct a hiccup in the automatic post scheduling system) no post today. Instead, enjoy this image of yesterday’s scene, Morgan le Fay … Continue reading →
You’re probably expecting Launcelot to wake up, discover Lionel is missing, track him down, slay Turquine, and free everybody, right? I know I would be expecting that. This story takes a weird turn, though. Let’s turn our attention back to … Continue reading →
Back at Camelot, a knight named Ector — but a different Ector, not King Arthur’s adoptive father; this one is Ector de Maris — overslept and now he’s pissed because he’d wanted to go off on the strange adventure with … Continue reading →
Now that it’s been about two books since Malory’s favorite knight appeared, and one book since he first showed up as a knight, now Malory decides it’s time to start talking Launcelot, or to be more accurate, L A U … Continue reading →
So in Book V, King Arthur invades Europe, conquers his way from Normandy to Rome, and declares himself Roman Emperor before turning around and going back to Camelot. That’s basically it. Compared to the previous Book, this is a very … Continue reading →
