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Exercises in Verbumancy – Book Release!
Things have been quite quiet on the blog front here at Verbumancer Towers. This is because I has been away being industrious. For the past several months I have been slowly editing, proof-reading,...
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SFSwap – Dream-Downtime Ad-Blocker
In the middle of October I was trundling around twitter when I discovered that @FrogCroakley (he of Daniel Barker’s Birthday fame) was planning on setting up what could best be described as a writer’s...
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On a Bright Angel’s Wings
Things have been quiet on the blog for front for a few months. One might assume that this means I haven’t been doing any writing. This is not entirely true. Between the start of October and the end of...
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Whimword – Gloaming
So last week I made my first foray into the world of Whimword. I consequently “won.” Obviously there was the temptation to bow out and live out my days with a perfect record, undefeated upon the field...
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Whimword – Dirigible
To Tame a Beast The ropes were thick with soot and grease. They hung heavily from the pallid, white belly of the sky-beast. Stirred by the breeze they undulated and twisted; never still. Uyildi sat in...
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Whimword – Palatial
A Palace for Corpses and the Dead Ghosts of Empire The plumes of soft, powdery, grey dust drifted downwards slowly under the asteroid’s weak gravity. It had begun to settle around the feet of the...
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Whimword – Catch
The Ship Breaker (A Tale of Space Fishing) The mono-fillament line snaked out through the soupy, interstellar morass of the nebula. It spooled out from the primary mass of the Great Xolotar, drifting...
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Whimword – Soupçon
Deadlines The cauldron bubbled as the colloidal data gushed from its rimy transfer hose; mixing with the liquefied quartz storage solution. It became a seething sea of froth and foam, as icy, crystal...
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Whimword – Adamant
Star Fortress Adamant Beyond the stars we call home, In the places where dark things roam, Within the folds of stellar mists, There a grand fortress sits. At the sight of the Old Empire’s demise, There...
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The Titan Awakens
Over the last couple of days I’ve been playing a lot of Paradox Interactive’s Stellaris. For those who haven’t heard of it, it’s a galaxy spanning real-time strategy game that is absolutely loaded with...
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