Milky Way Railway, playlists, windships
Jan. 24th, 2015 08:47 pmMilky Way Railway
Miyazawa Kenji, who wrote the mysterious and beautiful story Gingatetsudo no yoru (銀河鉄道の夜; translated by Sarah Strong as Night of the Milky Way Railway), lived in Iwate Prefecture, which the ninja girl visited this past New Years. She sent us candies in this commemorative tin:


You can see that after Ginga (Milky Way) station comes Minami Juji (The Southern Cross)
playlists
I've been very much enjoying the six Ancillary Justice playlists
ann_leckie posted about in a recent LJ entry. They're all fan made and quite various in feel. They're at 8tracks.com.

windships
In this entry,
blairmacg interviews Brad Beaulieu about the worldbuilding in his novel The Winds of Khalakovo, one of the novels in the StoryBundle I mentioned a couple of entries back. One of the things his world includes is windships. It got me thinking of how appealing the idea of windships is, the idea of sailing in the sky. Terri-Lynne DeFino had windships in Beyond the Gate that were quite magnificent.
The windships in Beyond the Gate are kept aloft by the magic of the Pilfer, which pulls elements from the surrounding air in and turns them into a levitating mist (though there's more to it than that, as the characters learn).
I haven't yet read The Winds of Khalakovo, but from the interview, it sounds like the mechanism of those windships are equally interesting--and very different.
Miyazawa Kenji, who wrote the mysterious and beautiful story Gingatetsudo no yoru (銀河鉄道の夜; translated by Sarah Strong as Night of the Milky Way Railway), lived in Iwate Prefecture, which the ninja girl visited this past New Years. She sent us candies in this commemorative tin:


You can see that after Ginga (Milky Way) station comes Minami Juji (The Southern Cross)
playlists
I've been very much enjoying the six Ancillary Justice playlists
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windships
In this entry,
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The windships in Beyond the Gate are kept aloft by the magic of the Pilfer, which pulls elements from the surrounding air in and turns them into a levitating mist (though there's more to it than that, as the characters learn).
I haven't yet read The Winds of Khalakovo, but from the interview, it sounds like the mechanism of those windships are equally interesting--and very different.