The first countdown is LonCon 3, with less than four weeks to go. I'm on another panel too, details to follow during the week. The other countdown is the rewrite of my novel Bad Dog, which I hope to have done by the time LonCon 3 comes around. If only to say I have a novel out doing the rounds, but more importantly, just to get what feels like an anvil off of me.
So this week Hulk smash puny chapters that make up act three. Word count hard to estimate, because I'm in negative numbers, with the running total now standing at 86,701 words. When I started the rewrite the novel came in at a hefty 93,075 words; so Hulk smash!
We finished re-watching Stargate Atlantis this week. Season five had the feeling of watching a cat take a pratfall, regain its composure and pretend what happened was what it meant to do all along. By that I mean the ending was rushed to tie up all the loose threads of the plot before the show was cancelled. As a season some of the stories, while nice enough, were quite frankly not necessary to the overall plot; namely the Wraith problem is left hanging.
We've started re-watching Person of Interest, and wow it's better than I remember it, and that is saying something. Why this wasn't on the short form Hugo list is beyond me (perhaps people think of it as a contemporary police procedural conspiracy thriller, which given the Wikipedia entry is not that surprising). Still, to me, it's quite clear by episode twelve that Person of Interest is so much more. The Kurzweil shout out in the previous episode being the first giveaway, and the ending scene from the machine's point of view being the other.
I shall be keeping out an eye in case they drop in references to Hugo de Garis and Marvin Minsky next, because both of these men have made predictions about the future of AIs, which is a topic I find fascinating as someone who trained as a cognitive behavioural therapist. It's also a central theme in Ghost Dog, my third novel. So that's it for another week. I hope you all had a great weekend, and catch you on the bounce.
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