Hi Nathan!

Good luck with the interactive fiction projects.

Welcome.

Interactive fiction sounds intriguing...

Thanks everyone!

@Eugene: I too used to live in Gwinnett. The traffic up there is legendary, and in my dreadful morning commutes I often wondered if it would be the subject for a good dystopian short. Imagine a world where getting to work every morning was a matter approaching life or death. Miss this turn here...it'll cost you an hour; if you're not up by four AM...the line for gasoline will set you back two hours, etc. Road rage would be universal, and our cars would begin to hate us... 

Typically I don't like to give away the goat on things I'm writing until they're more fully formulated. I do, however, plan to examine some of the themes I've mentioned, and there may be some consideration of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Europa has intrigued me for some time because it is covered with ice, but due to certain energetic effects I don't yet understand (friction? stress and shear?) its interior may be warm enough to contain liquid water, and its core is thought to be made of iron. So there may be a vast underwater ocean under there, and who knows what's swimming in it...

Welcome, Nathan.

@Nicholas.

I had not heard of Lindsay's novel when you wrote of it, but I have since noticed it on one of those Best Fantasy of All Time lists, chronologically adjacent to The Worm Ouroboros.

So I've gone ahead and put it in my queue. Thanks!

Welcome from a Savannah native.

To Mike:

It's about a contractor who has been assigned to assassinate a monarch. To this end he and his ship have been miniaturized for injection into the monarch's body, on the pretext of a medical endeavor. Unfortunately, this was all many years ago. The mission was botched, and the contractor has struggled to survive inside his host ever since.