What a great story! I was certainly surprised with the ending; the story has so many pleasant twists and turns. I found myself empathizing with the ship for some reason, it reminds me of a faithful dog.
I came on the recommend of ol' Will Boucher and not sorry I did. A nice tight little story that packs a lot into a little. I especially like how the notion of pregnancy is hinted at throughout, in comments on wormholes being pregnant with possibilty, even in the nortion of the "PreG" era which suggests pregnant, though I don't know if that last one's intentional.
Any follow-up (again not sure if you're planning on one) could build on the idea of a galaxy being pregnant with a wormhole, it being pregnant with new galaxies, just as Rety's pregnant with unborn Bubun - and if you think about it, if Bunbun her unborn has ovaries they even contain pregnant possibilities too, all like a cosmic Russian doll.
So anyway, great writing, I'll be sure to check out your other pieces soon.
Yooooo this was such a fire analysis 🥹 almost bought tears to my eyes! I hope you check out some of my other work and I’ll be checking out yours. Anyone with this level of scalpel like precision has my respect 🫡
Keep telling stories, you’re such a great writer, I look forward to your post and always try to carve out time to read so I can take it all in. Also, you have impaired my short story journey. I have a bunch of stuff I’m working on and reading your post has driven me to write them
Put a battery in my back why don’t you! But thank you and makes me happy you’re writing some more fiction. We need more brilliant modern fiction writers
Oh Clancy! You just get it. I def agree about it being a cool serial idea. It could go so many places and I think if I ever do choose to flesh it out I’d have to do a lot of digging through historical archives. It would be a fun project reimagining how former civilizations found their way to space and how it was forgotten.
What a great story! I was certainly surprised with the ending; the story has so many pleasant twists and turns. I found myself empathizing with the ship for some reason, it reminds me of a faithful dog.
I wanted to pet that ship on the some thing or other too.
Right? It comes off as a warm HAL you could play fetch with and would never lock you out in space.
Justice for The Calypso
Absolutely.
A kind of Jack Russell type space jumper. Always happy to see you, even if you are not.
Great read, man.
I came on the recommend of ol' Will Boucher and not sorry I did. A nice tight little story that packs a lot into a little. I especially like how the notion of pregnancy is hinted at throughout, in comments on wormholes being pregnant with possibilty, even in the nortion of the "PreG" era which suggests pregnant, though I don't know if that last one's intentional.
Any follow-up (again not sure if you're planning on one) could build on the idea of a galaxy being pregnant with a wormhole, it being pregnant with new galaxies, just as Rety's pregnant with unborn Bubun - and if you think about it, if Bunbun her unborn has ovaries they even contain pregnant possibilities too, all like a cosmic Russian doll.
So anyway, great writing, I'll be sure to check out your other pieces soon.
Yooooo this was such a fire analysis 🥹 almost bought tears to my eyes! I hope you check out some of my other work and I’ll be checking out yours. Anyone with this level of scalpel like precision has my respect 🫡
@nj how the hell do you think of this stuff and then write it into life? I’m always blown away and inspired by your writing. This was so cool!
I’m glad you enjoyed it! A lifetime of obsessive fantasy and sci fi reading built me for this. There so many of my own stories I wanted to tell🤣
Keep telling stories, you’re such a great writer, I look forward to your post and always try to carve out time to read so I can take it all in. Also, you have impaired my short story journey. I have a bunch of stuff I’m working on and reading your post has driven me to write them
Put a battery in my back why don’t you! But thank you and makes me happy you’re writing some more fiction. We need more brilliant modern fiction writers
another one from you where I want to read the whole novel. I love your characters.
I think it would be a banger you know.
Awesome story, I feel like wormhole excavations could be a cool sci-fi serial.
This made me think of how being born is kind of like a wormhole — you basically are pulled through time and space into another dimension!
Oh Clancy! You just get it. I def agree about it being a cool serial idea. It could go so many places and I think if I ever do choose to flesh it out I’d have to do a lot of digging through historical archives. It would be a fun project reimagining how former civilizations found their way to space and how it was forgotten.