Torn World - The Crystal Sandbox

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Hey, look! Ellen Million’s nifty sandbox project, Torn World, is open to the public! If you are a writer, an artist, or just a worldbuilder, stop by and see if you’d like to play in a world where time got away from everyone, where nomadic Northerners breed snow-unicorn herds and avoid deadly time-storms, while city-dwelling Southerners study science and the art of documenting everything with licenses, where the language gulf is not just of geography, but of time, and where you can create a character and send them exploring this world.

The LJ is torn_world. I am going to do Tuesday entries discussing the new writing every week. Enjoy!

Comments

[die-monster.livejournal.com]

Ooh, consider me intrigued! Also, lol at your icon. What'd CJ Cherryh do? I admit I've never made it through a book of hers, but I've only tried once or twice and with me that's no guarantee...

[die-monster.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I thought maybe she was terrible in some way. As I say, I've read part of a book of hers that I own, twice. My attention span is probably more to blame than her writing, as I've been in a reading slump for ages.

And yeah, I remember that post now. Oh people. *tsks*.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I had to switch icons and delete that last post anyway--the damn icon keeps crashing Firefox.

I have the same attention span problem lately. It's not fun.

[gryphart.livejournal.com]

Mark down another curious person about the icon. I quite liked Cyteen, and a fair chunk of her SF oevure is at least readable for me, so I'd be curious to know if it's ironic or if you really aren't fond of her stuff.

[asqmh.livejournal.com]

Likely it's a reference to what's-his-goof saying that women ruined Sci-Fi by, y'know, having vaginas.

[gryphart.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. I must've missed that particular Internet kerfuffle, but that's pretty stupid even for the Intarwebs.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at one point some dumb bastard decided that women and LGBT folk were just starting to write sci-fi and were RUINING it, despite the pointers that women and LGBT had been writing it since the beginning, and also that they wrote some good stuff.

I adore the Cherryh books I've read--the Chanur saga is terrific.