Could this be the February deadline? I'd imagine there aren't anywhere near as many steps between writing and publishing for the Tor.com shorts as there are for the novels. Turtle Fan (talk) 19:06, March 2, 2014 (UTC)
- Could be. But I had the sense that the 2/28 deadline was for a novel manuscript. I guess I'll have to listen the to the speech again. TR (talk) 19:13, March 2, 2014 (UTC)
- That's a major time commitment to clarify one point. It was an enjoyable lecture, though. I wish he'd come to my college when I was in school. Turtle Fan (talk) 02:29, March 3, 2014 (UTC)
Odd story[]
I think it qualifies as a horror piece or maybe sci fi. Takes a little while to get to its point, and I think letting slip the "parasitism" point in the summary may have hurt a bit. I'll wait for everyone else to read before further commenting. TR (talk) 16:19, April 9, 2014 (UTC)
- Unsettling. Our hero makes quite the intuitive jump at the end there. Mendelsohn's sounds like a pleasant watering hole otherwise. I noticed that he talked about reading a text in a foreign language "with . . . lexicon and patience," which in his YouTube speech is what he said about reading the memoir on which he based EIaK. A few references to the Crimea which are more timely than he probably thought when he wrote them. But there's no one huge takeaway I got from it, apart from the vague sense of unease. Turtle Fan (talk) 18:09, April 9, 2014 (UTC)
- I didn't twig from the summary but as soon as I read what Indira Patel's specialty was, I saw where Turtledove was heading. Which probably proves ... he reads the same popular science mags I do. I did enjoy the story, though. ML4E (talk) 18:58, April 9, 2014 (UTC)
- This story was quite interesting and far from the most common run of horror stories you'd usually read. I liked it. Zhukov15 (talk) 20:14, April 10, 2014 (UTC)
Present day?[]
Can this be put in the set in the present day category?JonathanMarkoff (talk) 08:08, December 21, 2015 (UTC)