Things Mikey Likes: Babylon 5
It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind...
It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind...
This week is a bit of a short chapter, arguably only about half a chapter honestly, because I was at Supercon 2026 this weekend. I wrote what's here, there (because Supercon is basically 60 or so nerds in a ballroom parallel-playing) but now I'm pretty well
Robinson Station, Tau Ceti, 16.8.775 CW 21 megaseconds since the Catastrophe Vadim Karenski's alarm sounded. He silenced it and rolled over. He did not rise immediately, the way he ordinarily would have, the way he had almost every wake-shift over two gigaseconds of his career. Today,
Newer York, 10 Tammuz 2541 AS Singer usually woke up fairly quickly, whether from a set alarm or from natural processes. This waking, however, was a very slow thing, as she became aware of different, disconnected bits and then gradually sorted them into something that made sense. The first bit,
Zephyr, 500 kiloseconds since arrival at David's Star Singer spent the entire trip back to Zephyr irrationally wishing she could make the boat move faster. Alas, she found once again that her empathic gift did not come with a side-helping of telekinesis. Her time in Newer York had