And pursuant to Shadow Unit...

It looks like the official announcement's come down, so now it can be told.

I will, to my great excitement, be writing a second season episode of Shadow Unit. Whose regular lineup consists of Elizabeth Bear (matociquala), Emma Bull (coffeeem), Sarah Monette (truepenny), and Will Shetterly (willshetterly. The other guest writer this season will be Holly Black (blackholly).

The official announcement's here.

For now, I will just roll in the awesome company like it's fresh-from-the-dryer laundry. :)

Science Fiction is Dead. So is Satire.

From the PlayNC newsletter I just got, being the company that does the administration for my one true digital addiction, City of Heroes:

In the not so distant future, the human race is on the verge of extinction, and humanity's last hope may depend on you!

Richard Garriott will board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft bound for the International Space Station on October 12, 2008. While there, he will implement OPERATION IMMORTALITY: a digital archive of mankind's greatest achievements and a snapshot of humanity itself. This archive will be stored on the ISS to serve as a remote "offsite backup" of humanity, should we suffer a fate where, like in Tabula Rasa, mankind must fight for their very survival.

By participating in Operation Immortality, YOU will have a chance to become immortal. All you need to do is pick up a free trial of Tabula Rasa to upload your own personal message to future generations. The character data from all those who play during the month of August 2008 will be uploaded to the Immortality Drive. Lucky winners will be selected every week to have their DNA sequenced and sent to space!

Those who login to TABULA RASA between JULY 30TH and AUGUST 31ST will have their character data and profiles stored on the Immortality Pod, and a few LUCKY WINNERS will also get their DNA DIGITIZED and stored, giving them the chance to be reborn in the far future, to repopulate the human species!

...they're not kidding. I looked.

They are actually going to sequence someone's DNA to get you to play an MMORPG.

The only appropriate response is O.o

Thud: Shower Angel Story

July 30, 2008 Progress Notes:

"The Shower Angel Story", now titled "Parable of the Shower". Har har.

Words today: 1500.
Words total: 3000.
Reason for stopping: I don't yet have the thematic tie for the denouement, and that Lord British Saving Humanity With the DNA of Gamers thing just goddamn stymied all other thought in my head that was not O.o.
Munchies: Nachos pending.

Darling du Jour: There is an angel of the LORD in my shower, thou imploreth, and he keeps saying he’s supposed to knock me up, and I’m only twenty-three, I can’t raise a kid right now--
THOU CANST USE DAYCARE, the Seraph boometh.
--and I thought you were against single-parent families, thou finishest.
DO YOU NOT TRUST IN THE POWER OF THE LORD TO BRING YOU A HUSBAND?
That’s not the point, thou repliest, shrinking down unto Missus Van Metre’s carpet. It is not thy job to tell an angel of the LORD that thou likest not the boys.

Mean Things: Angel in the shower. Imperious Patriarchy of Heaven.
Research Roundup: Map of L.A..
Books in progress: Cherie Priest, Fathom (ARC).
The glamour: A job interview that I went out an hour into the 'burbs to attend and an hour back, in the pouring rain, which lasted...five minutes. Then more job applications, and some hardcore shopping for professional clothes/makeup/stuff for tomorrow's job interview. I've figured out how Capitalism works. They won't give you a job until you spend at least $1k in the stuff you need to disguise your personality for job interviews. :p

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Yeah, I'm still with the O.o