PodCastle 88: Another End of the Empire
Jan. 26th, 2010 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prusikWhee! I loved loved loved this story when Strange Horizons published it. Cheyenne Wright gives it terrific reading, full of vocal color and expression.
Tim Pratt blogged about writing this short story over at Magic District as part of him getting back into the habit of writing short stories. Months before its publication, he called it "an epic fantasy — in about 4,000 words." (And it is.)
That seven word description inspired me to write the short story that got BRAWL to invite me to join them. It's also one of the stories I sent off to Clarion as my best work to date. (I blew past 4000 words though and it's only epic fantasy in a vest pocket sense. Yes, the one with the bicycles.)
I love how "Another End of the Empire" plays with structure, and askrylyr says, how it deconstructs the evil overlord. Everything that happens is simultaneously surprising and absolutely right. This is one of those stories I wish I'd written.
Tim Pratt blogged about writing this short story over at Magic District as part of him getting back into the habit of writing short stories. Months before its publication, he called it "an epic fantasy — in about 4,000 words." (And it is.)
That seven word description inspired me to write the short story that got BRAWL to invite me to join them. It's also one of the stories I sent off to Clarion as my best work to date. (I blew past 4000 words though and it's only epic fantasy in a vest pocket sense. Yes, the one with the bicycles.)
I love how "Another End of the Empire" plays with structure, and as
krylyr says, how it deconstructs the evil overlord. Everything that happens is simultaneously surprising and absolutely right. This is one of those stories I wish I'd written.
