Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!
C.J. CherryhGods and Thunders!
C.J. CherryhJane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
C.J. CherryhBut his political sense kept up a persistent itch that said: A, Given ignorance in the mix, stupidity was at least as common in politics as astute maneuvering; B, Crisis always drew insects; and, C, Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
C.J. CherryhTag: politics political-maneuvering
Tabini was at least canny enough in the differences between atevi and human to know that, gut level, he might think he understood - but chances were very good that he wouldn't, couldn't, and never would, unaided by the paidhi, come up with the right forecast of human behavior because he didn't come with the right hardwiring. Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
C.J. CherryhTag: thinking think instinct cross-cultural-understanding gut-reaction
Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.
C.J. CherryhTag: grammar subjunctive verb-tense
There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it was: friendship had happened to both of them, on the sudden, completely aside from Tristan's both endangering and saving Crissand's life.
It was no reason related to that, it was no reason that either of them quite knew. Crissand had simply risen on his horizon like the sun of his banner...and that was that....They were together, and there was a great deal right with the day simply in that.
Tag: friendship love fantasy-fiction epic-fantasy
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?
C.J. CherryhTag: writing science-fiction ideas tennis
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
C.J. CherryhHe had no wish to be killed by a bogle in which he resolutely did not believe.
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