Only a few hours until I leave for the airport, a few more hours until I’m underway, and a few more hours after that until I see Master Jack.
Happy launch day to Seanan McGuire’s new Amazon Kindle Serial, Indexing!
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“Never underestimate the power of a good story.”
Good advice…especially when a story can kill you.
For most people, the story of their lives is just that: the accumulation of time, encounters, and actions into a cohesive whole. But for an unfortunate few, that day-to-day existence is affected—perhaps infected is a better word—by memetic incursion: where narratives the rest of the world considers fairy tales become reality, often with disastrous results.
A motley team struggling with their own unfolding narratives, they are tasked with identifying potential outbreaks using the Aarne-Thompson Index and making sure the story doesn’t reach “ever after”… because if it does, someone is usually dead, broken—or worse. When you’re dealing with fairy tales in the real world, it doesn’t matter if you’re Cinderella, Snow White, or the Wicked Queen: no one gets a happy ending.
Indexing is bestselling author Seanan McGuire’s new urban fantasy where everything you thought you knew about fairy tales gets turned on its head.
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(Or as I like to describe it, Indexing is Grimm and Once Upon a Time crossed with Criminal Minds.) Go here to buy it now!
pyraxis replied to your post: I’ve never watched Charmed but some of my…
(Plus the fact that “time travel” into the future is possible if you have a relativistic spacecraft…)
Yeah, but I don’t think it’s overly generous to assume that the characters involved don’t have access to relativistic space travel.
mumblingsage replied to your post: I’ve never watched Charmed but some of my…
Probably the logic is the past already happens and ‘exists’ but the future hasn’t solidified yet
I can follow that logic, but that would require there to be a single moment that is the “present”, always moving forward in time, and the barrier to time travel wouldn’t be forward or backwards but “before the present” and “after the present”.
This episode has a person in the “future” that another character came from reaching back into the past (the “present” of the show) to grab that character and bring him back to the future, and this is what’s supposed to be impossible. The future he’d be traveling to isn’t unformed, she’s standing in it.
I’ve never watched Charmed but some of my housemates are watching it on Netflix. Apparently, in the Charmed universe, it’s possible to send someone backward in time but trying to send someone forward in time is harder and believed to be impossible.
Have these people ever, you know, seen time? I mean, have they ever lived in a universe where time happens? Even if time travel is technically impossible under the rules of your phlebotinum, sending someone into the future should be easy. You’ve got suspended animation, you’ve got putting people into pocket dimensions, you’ve got spells that expire at set times or conditions? You have time travel into the future.
So in English class we had to draw a scene from The Great Gatsby. After the drawings were done the teacher was showing them to the class, and one drawing was a pic of Gatsby reaching towards at the green light, but in the drawing Gatsby didn’t have hands. So my teacher starts saying something like how this picture has hidden meaning and portrays the helplessness Gatsby feels, and the kid next to me just casually says “I can’t draw hands.”
well that’s the best news i’ve gotten all day
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I have a lot of comic book feels and a lot of them are about how much I hate Hank Pym.
