Today, Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, hits the store. Stories by Lavie Tidhar, Pat Cadigan, Brit Mandelo, Elizabeth Bear, Hannu Rajaniemi and more luminaries of the genre–and it also includes my Xuya continuity story “Ship’s Brother”, originally published in Interzone.
There came a low rumble, which distorted the cabin around her, and cast an oily sheen on the walls(Excerpted from “The Two Sisters in Exile”)— could you tell me that is this( “which distorted the cabin around her, and cast an oily sheen on the walls”) an illusion or things can happen in real life?
Daniel
“could you tell me that is this( “which distorted the cabin around her, and cast an oily sheen on the walls”) an illusion or things can happen in real life?” ——actually i meant: is this ( “which distorted the cabin around her, and cast an oily sheen on the walls”) an illusion of Dong Huong who is in the novel or things can happen really in the “real” life of your fantastic novel?
aliette
Hi Daniel,
no, it’s not an illusion, it”s a local modification of space time that happens because of the mindships. Hope this helps!
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Daniel
There came a low rumble, which distorted the cabin around her, and cast an oily sheen on the walls(Excerpted from “The Two Sisters in Exile”)— could you tell me that is this( “which distorted the cabin around her, and cast an oily sheen on the walls”) an illusion or things can happen in real life?
Daniel
“could you tell me that is this( “which distorted the cabin around her, and cast an oily sheen on the walls”) an illusion or things can happen in real life?” ——actually i meant: is this ( “which distorted the cabin around her, and cast an oily sheen on the walls”) an illusion of Dong Huong who is in the novel or things can happen really in the “real” life of your fantastic novel?
aliette
Hi Daniel,
no, it’s not an illusion, it”s a local modification of space time that happens because of the mindships. Hope this helps!
Aliette
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