laramie

I'm writing: yesterday producing three conversations that need to be worked into existing scenes.

And, as always, I'm reading:
Right now I'm reading 'The Key Trilogy' by Nora Roberts: three books with a
related storyline in which three women must find three magical keys to free
the souls of three Celtic demi-goddesses, thereby winning a million dollars
each, and incidentally finding love along the way. Or not so incidentally,
since love is part of the magic that reveals the keys.

Before that I read 'Transcendent' by Stephen Baxter, a very high-concept,
high-tech science fiction book. The story went back and forth between a
near future (40 years from now) when the earth's climate has changed
drastically, and society is changing to cope - and a far future (half a
million years from now) in which humanity has changed in many ways,
diverging and evolving along various paths, and is then undertaking the
task of creating a transcendent consciousness which will encompass all that
we've ever been and will be. Interesting stuff, but I was disappointed in
the way the author handled the conclusion.