Comments on: The skeins of its own legend

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:09:57 +0000

There are people who don’t follow both of us on Twitter??!

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:09:18 +0000

Did you know that this is the maximum depth for threaded comments? Probably a good thing.

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:08:42 +0000

I know. I just wanted to let people who don’t follow both of us on Twitter in on the reference.

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:22:04 +0000

That was the intended implication—subtext was supposed to read “good tip, but your previous good tip was even better”

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:17:41 +0000

As the author of the above Miyazaki + Chandler formula, let me say: You’re welcome. :-)

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:33:30 +0000

Just earlier today I was wondering to myself: "So like what genre am I writing in exactly?"—and for some reason this phrase occurred to me: "fan fiction for the real world." And this story is the perfect example. It is so weird, so cool, so beyond imagination. And yet, in its weird/cool extremity, it doesn't make you think, like, "okay, good enough"—it makes you want to extend it even further! Mash it up with other stuff. Fill in the gaps with imagined wonders. Seriously: amazing. ("Kiki's Delivery Service meets The Big Sleep" is still my true north, though.)