If you don't follow Aragon (you should!) I want to draw attention to his latest blog post: Why Moby Dick is Awesome

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Several people have asked about this, probably because I've written these things out of order. So, here is what I would recommend:

The Celestia Code
The Luna Cypher
The Twilight Enigma
On the Rocks
The Quest
Tales from Twilight Town
The Cadenza Prophecies
The Skyla Pseudonym

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Ahoy there, Captain! A Twofer Tuesday spotted, broad on the larbord bow!

Just thought y'all might like to see the gals with their disguises on, and some of the other Nebulas.

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...but I really wish that little airships worked like this!

Because I am obsessive about those sorts of details, I had to know if the captain's gig could plausibly fit on Nebula's main deck with her gasbag fully inflated. I wrote a scene where that happens, and a little voice at the back of my head kept nagging at me to make sure I wasn't describing something that couldn't be done. Turns out after a morning of modeling and measuring, the gig can fit—just barely.

Here's a side-by-side comparison:

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This week, I learned there was such a thing as an AI Fixer or "Humanizer."

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As expected, sharp-eyed readers have spotted several errors and typos in the glossary for The Cadenza Prophecies and I have gone about fixing them. Nothing noteworthy there, but I also made a major overhaul to one of the illustrations that only served to explain one term. Now it is much more useful:

I decided to append the glossary to the end of the story. Turns out it's longer than any of the chapters.

It will remain the last chapter even as new chapters come out. As I recall, that created some issues with quoting comments or something like that in The Skyla Pseudonym, so be aware of that if you want to comment on the glossary itself.

Enjoy!

Still working on the glossary and diagrams. It turned out to be a much bigger job than I'd anticipated, what with having to get the 3D model into much better shape than the "noodling around" stage it's been in for years. The ability to produce illustrations specific to fantasy/steampunkish airship equipment will be worth it, I think. I might as well include other terms pertinent to the story, such as phylactery, taewidha, interstitial vortex, and thaumochromatic detonation

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