The promised fun post: porn!

I've just put up a new story at my site: Wept(37k), in which Fraser has a kink. It's NC-17, set immediately post-"The Ladies Man" and also post-"Call of the Wild."

Since everyone to whom I told this premise first gave me a baffled look and then said, "Where did that come from?" I'll give the only answer I have: I was sitting on an MBTA bus, being detoured between Kendall and Park St., on WorldCon Saturday. Staring out the window. Beyond that, I have no idea.

Many thanks to iuliamentis for beta duty in the face of persnickety mail programs and to brooklinegirl for being a klutz encouraging me so very enthusiastically.

(The story will also be available at DSA just as soon as I manage to upload it in a form that is actually, um, readable.)

A little light reading.

I've just - quite possibly less than a year after buying it - begun reading Sean McMullen's Souls in the Great Machine. I bought the book mainly because I saw Sean on a panel at Torcon about writing violence which turned into a quick demonstration of how women could beat up big huge guys. Plus, he's Australian.

Anyway. The book seems, so far, to be about an ambitious young librarian preparing to take over the (post-apocalyptic-ice-age) world. She's doing this by reinventing the computer, using humans as calculating components (the eponymous souls in the great machine). The computer is being used, initially, to run Libris, the great library of which she is Highliber.

I just ran across the following passage of Rosencrantz-and-Guildenstern style commentary on the situation, which, sitting in the breakroom of my library, part of a huge library system thrown into moderate disarray by a new computer system, made me say, "Wow. Sean has worked in a library." Only not out loud, because I haven't been working in libraries quite that long. Yet.

( A peek into the Cataloguing Department. )