Comments on: Couch http://jens.mooseyard.com/2009/02/couch/ Little boxes made of words, by Jens Alfke Sun, 02 May 2010 05:43:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: http://hans.gerwitz.com/ http://jens.mooseyard.com/2009/02/couch/comment-page-1/#comment-2926 http://hans.gerwitz.com/ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:35:59 +0000 http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2009/02/couch/#comment-2926 Love it. I think you found that balance quite nicely. Love it. I think you found that balance quite nicely.

]]> By: Jens Alfke http://jens.mooseyard.com/2009/02/couch/comment-page-1/#comment-2925 Jens Alfke Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:31:23 +0000 http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2009/02/couch/#comment-2925 Thanks, guys! The tricky part of writing this was to leave enough clues to what was going on, yet not give it away until very near the end. I ended up tweaking several sentences throughout the story until I was satisfied. Joachim— I need to read more Alastair Reynolds! I've only read his first book so far. I did drop in references to "2001", "Buckaroo Banzai" and "Memento"; and other stories that contributed to the mood were Fritz Leiber's "A Pail Of Air" and J.G. Ballard's "Thirteen For Centaurus". Thanks, guys!

The tricky part of writing this was to leave enough clues to what was going on, yet not give it away until very near the end. I ended up tweaking several sentences throughout the story until I was satisfied.

Joachim— I need to read more Alastair Reynolds! I’ve only read his first book so far. I did drop in references to “2001”, “Buckaroo Banzai” and “Memento”; and other stories that contributed to the mood were Fritz Leiber’s “A Pail Of Air” and J.G. Ballard’s “Thirteen For Centaurus”.

]]> By: Joachim Bengtsson http://jens.mooseyard.com/2009/02/couch/comment-page-1/#comment-2924 Joachim Bengtsson Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:47:28 +0000 http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2009/02/couch/#comment-2924 Ah! Fantastic. This is beautiful. I didn't actually realize what it meant until it said "Mars, sir", and suddenly the rest of the story made a different kind of sense, especially opening the door! This reminded me of the Generation Ships of Alastair Reynold's series (maybe in Chasm City?); a journey so long that at last its very reason is both forgotten and irrelevant. Ah! Fantastic. This is beautiful. I didn’t actually realize what it meant until it said “Mars, sir”, and suddenly the rest of the story made a different kind of sense, especially opening the door! This reminded me of the Generation Ships of Alastair Reynold’s series (maybe in Chasm City?); a journey so long that at last its very reason is both forgotten and irrelevant.

]]> By: Alex http://jens.mooseyard.com/2009/02/couch/comment-page-1/#comment-2923 Alex Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:00:08 +0000 http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2009/02/couch/#comment-2923 Nice. Nice.

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