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[flyingharmonica]

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[delphianlore]

I like this. When did you start this one?

[flyingharmonica]

((scrolls back through the LJ))

6/11/2005, apparently.

[mikeknackstedt]

You've got an excellent sense of style, Owen. I really like where you're going with this. It's almost like you're combining espionage with the western and hard-boiled detective genres. It's a very cool hybrid of classic pulp fiction. Keep it up, and if you ever need anyone to do edits or anything, send it my way.

[flyingharmonica]

Will do, thanks Mike.

[delphianlore]

I like the futuresque touch, how it's included as a common part of the conversation like it's normal. I've read too many sci-fi novels that briefly mention part of something we don't have yet, then go off into long unneeded rants about every detail and how it works.
It's much better when it's written as if it's just accepted as is.

P.s. what is antispace?

[flyingharmonica]

Antispace is another word for Hyperspace, Subspace, Warpspace, Zerospace, Whateverspace. It's the equal opposite to normal space, and is used in sci-fi to explain how ships travel faster than light-speed, and how people move between star systems without it taking hundreds of years.

Sometimes it's explained as just a series of wormholes. Sometimes it's explained as antispace being "curved" in a way that ships can make shorcuts through the folds of normal space. My favorite explanation, is that Antispace is smaller and much much more condensed than normal space, so ships have significantly less ground to cover.

[malum_est_nihil]

Really nice, Owen.
Like Mike said, it has a very strong aura of both cowboy and sci-fi stories combined which is well awesome, and you handled it very realistically and naturally.

Can't wait to read the final product :D