Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That the person writing your story is a hack.
No, not even a hack.
A hack would have given the ending a little oomph, that your author just got bored and didn't even finish.
Or maybe he's a modernist, trying to write a story that's just as meaningless as real life.
I'm not a modernist, Mal.
Baker was a pen name.
I'm not faded enough that I don't know the difference.
Did you research that yourself?
I was too early.
Or too late.
No, too early.
It's a series of anthropological reports, right?
Of alien civilizations, every one of them dead.
The fur predators of Yagvel V all consumed in a mass ritual sacrifice, each ripping out the other's throats until there was only one left who died of old age decades later.
The six-limbed amphibians of Greater Garlock, their worldsea poisoned with industrial runoff making breeding impossible.