Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Leviathans in Poetry

One of my writer-friends, C.S. McCath, has a poem up in Strange Horizons. "Leviathans" is about oil spills and their effect on marine life.  Very sharp writing!

I have actually written a number of poems along related lines. "The Why of the Leviathan" appeared in Mytholog, connecting shipwrecks with the leviathan life cycle. "Overkill" has a similar tone of destruction as McCath's poem, but mentions several different cryptids. I think I've got another one or two in which sea monsters drag humans or ships down to their doom for spoiling the waters, but I'm not finding titles there at the moment.
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  • 5 comments
siege

siege

September 21 2010, 06:06:19 UTC 10 years ago

Sharp as a shark's tooth, that.
fayanora

fayanora

September 22 2010, 11:33:08 UTC 10 years ago

One of the major advanced technological societies/species in the Traipah storyverse are the Na'Voom Da. They live on an ocean world, and what little land is there, is artificial. They resemble pleisiosaurs in many ways, but with bigger brains and thicker necks, and they have manipulation tentacles as well as flippers. They're quite large; a single-occupant spacecraft of theirs would be larger than my apartment, and would be quite cramped for them. Their society is millions of years old, and even they have forgotten how they came to be technological. But they're experts at waterproofing, and underwater technology.

They are the source of a race of sentient machines known (commonly) as Droids. The Droids are generally quite friendly.
ysabetwordsmith

Wow!

ysabetwordsmith

September 22 2010, 22:32:42 UTC 10 years ago

That's fascinating. I like water worlds. I have, hm, at least two of them in my main science fiction setting. Gomorrah is in the Freedom System, colonized mainly by lesbians; the biggest land mass is about the size of Australia, and the rest is just scattered island chains. Kai has only island chains and, after humans arrive, a few floating towns. But its whole ecosystem is sentient.
fayanora

Re: Wow!

fayanora

September 23 2010, 01:58:57 UTC 10 years ago

LOL! Is there a planet of gay men named Sodom?

Earlier, I was playing with the possibility of a planet in the Mindeodean storyverse colonized by furries.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Wow!

ysabetwordsmith

September 23 2010, 03:07:13 UTC 10 years ago

>> LOL! Is there a planet of gay men named Sodom? <<

Indeed there is! The Freedom System was colonized by, well, most of Earth's alt-sex culture at the time of launch. Gomorrah is a little closer to the sun than Earth is, warm and wet, and a little bigger so the gravity is heavier. High overhead are scattered diaphanous rings herded by the Shepherd Moons. Sodom is a little farther from the sun than Earth, quite dry and leaning toward silicon lifeforms; it's also a little smaller and has lighter gravity. It was settled by the gay men, kinkyfolk, and assorted others. There's more landmass there, so more room. Plus there are two stations, Sanadu insystem and Rainbow Zenned at the edge.

They could never have afforded that system if anyone had known what they were getting, but it was a best-bet blind jump fairly early in the Conservancy's colonization period. They just lucked into some of the best real estate out there.