Take a guess who's the newest featured author in the Royal Canterlot Library?

Wander on into the library and lend them your eyes. They do good work in recognizing how awesome I am spotlighting good stories. I know I've read a few based on their recommendations!

And a big thanks to AugieDog for pitching the story to them.

At current, I am one hundred and eight pages into Philip K. Dick's The Simulacra, and so far there have been at least eight viewpoint characters and no clue what the plot of this book is supposed to be in the slightest. It involves a psychokinetic piano player who believes he has deadly BO, competing android manufacturers, the world's last psychoanalyst (named Dr. Egon Superb, which is just wonderful), major class conflict, mobile spacecraft dealerships with mind-controlling alien

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This was originally a lengthy comment in the comment section of Equestrian Time-Slip in response to TheFeanor asking what my inspirations for The Mare in the High Castle were. I decided to repost it here, with some minor additions, because it seemed like a better fit for a blog post.

Just off the top of my head, here's a rundown, but be warned, it's a long 'un:

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"The world has become so serious that humor is a risky profession."

Well, that happened. In true blackshirt tradition, some far-right gunmen committed good old-fashioned direct action against a satirical magazine for making a cartoon. Truly a testament to the fact that images and simulacra are far more real and important than reality.

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So, I wrote a thing, Equestrian Time-Slip. I'm not going to go so far as to call it a prequel to Do Hippoids Dream of Electric Shetlands?, because saying "It's a prequel to Electric Shetlands" is like saying a Moebius Strip is a straight line. But it is prequel-ish. I guess you could call it a Matryoshquel, if such a thing can exist.

Also, it may make your brain melt.

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