La scheggia occidentale

[Michael F Kane @MichaelFKane]

Alright. I'll shill for someone else this afternoon.

I've only read the first volume of Silence and Starsong, but I enjoyed it. It's weird Christian fiction. Darker and stranger than the stuff you'd find in the book store. The volume I read had one of the best short stories I've read in years.

It was about a Tsarist Russian submarine with ICBMs that carried imprisoned demons and the story followed the Orthodox priest tasked with keep them imprisoned. To say it all goes to hell is an understatement. It was written by @Fredosphere and is about 4 times weirder than you imagine from that description. Great stuff.

I hope this issue has equally great works.

But short fiction is hard to sell. The market is small. It's tough to build an audience.

Silence and Starsong is doing one issue a year right now, and doing crowdfunding to try and pay the authors fair rates, so check them out and considering backing the campaign. I think it's less than two days to go at this point. Check the quoted tweet for details, links, all of the above.

Have at it!

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@writriverdale "Ah yeah, I'm very sad about killing a bunch of stranger people. Now let me get home and kill a bunch of other people"

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@AlysssaHazel Do it for the manatee

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@AlysssaHazel They should provide better ones

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@VinnieVegaPF Stesse vibe

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@SipOfKoKo @writriverdale There's no harm in admitting you got wrong out of your eagerness in your belief Abraham was not real. You avoid making a fool of yourself out of pettiness

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@LArchetipo Beh, scelta facilerrima

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@SipOfKoKo @writriverdale Stop behaving like a child. Nobody but you affirmed you can disprove the existence of Abraham, before backtracking. When it is like that, it becomes matter of belief (or trusting the sources if you prefer). You backtracked because you know you fumbled in your eagerness

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@VinnieVegaPF I tram passano ancora?

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@JadeAtrophis They did it. They saved the appearances

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@SipOfKoKo @writriverdale Cheap

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@VinnieVegaPF Momento momento momento, ma è la BYD che penso io?

[Katie Roome @RedHedgedragon]

You can’t deprive fantasy of its mythopoetic power.

The modern method is to ignore it and pretend that it doesn’t exist, but it’s all still there.

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@Menanni1 Travagliato da chi?

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

Risposta estremamente sottovalutata 🤣

[Mario Sechi @michele_apicell]

@kunley_drukpa it's true, and they got into power for a brief time 10 years ago.

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@writriverdale Also:, the second part of the tweet is literally: "The israelites were polytheistic, actually". Any prophet, holding up tears: "I know"

[La scheggia occidentale @LOcchieppese]

@writriverdale Also, this is not the consensus. The consensus is that Israelites formed both by canaanites and egyptian hebrews. It is known that there were hebrews in Egypt at least on Elephantine Island that were worshipping Yhwh and Ashera

[Alyssa Hazel, Page Turner @AlysssaHazel]

Stopping at page 270 today!

For all my meme-ery, I do want to do a (fairly) unbiased review and analysis of the work. Here's my thoughts so far.

I heard this book started as Crichton researching Climate change to writing a book scrutinizing the field to becoming a thriller, which I can believe.

It's half Socrates Dialectic (I think that's the correct term) and half Thriller. Both parts are good, but sometimes they don't mesh together? I also think the character work, since they're supposed to act as surrogates for perspectives on the subject not necessarily fleshed out people, isn't necessarily as strong as his other work.

That being said I have a little less than 400 pages to go and I'm still finding the book informative and enjoyable. More tomorrow!