Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes

Geek Tragedy mentioned my blog on their podcast, which was awful nice and made me think I ought to put some sort of recent sci-fi up, on the off chance that someone will expect this blog to contain that sort of thing after they said it did.

So, here’s something I wrote a couple days ago, just a fragment I’m afraid because I’m hoping someone will publish the real work I’ve been doing.

It takes two minutes journey through the snowplain from Antarcticae to Arctica Uno.  Two minutes via magway, and the magway doesn’t mind the cold but even for two minutes I sure do.

The only thing more frozen than the snowplain is the sky above it.  That sky could suck the warm from anything.  It tries to do it too, believe me.  By the second minute you’re just about sure your toes and fingers will never move again, and you entertain fantasies about your soul itself condensing and sublimating to join the whiteness of the sky and plain around you.  Then finally two minutes is finished and you’ve made it at least as far as to the forest which surrounds Arctica Uno, where there are trees enough to keep a pocket atmosphere, and the atmosphere is sufficient for the magway to be heated.

It’s not a pleasant journey.  But if the doctors say the human body can heat itself enough to last two minutes who am I to argue?

Thank you, Geek Tragedy podcast.  You sure have good taste in SGOTI science fiction writers if I do say so myself.  Also, when discussing sci-fi westerns I was waiting for a Trigun reference, or maybe Cowboy Bebop?