An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
Veep (2012-2019) is a really important show. If you have reservations about a woman president, you should watch it. Not because it shows a woman doing a good job as president (it’s a comedy—everyone’s comically terrible at their jobs) but because it normalizes the concept.
Also, if you just want the power trip of watching a woman be president, Veep is awesome. Continue reading “Presidents and Miscellany”
The earthquake simulator at OMSI no longer sings Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move,” and this is deeply wrong, so Daniel is singing it for me.
I binged all of “I Draw, You Cook” over the last few days, and now I kind of want to write furry fan fiction about all the Tasty chefs.
I’ve been watching Veep (2012-2019) & I have to wonder how much funnier it might have been as it was coming out. At this point, it’s kind of gently humorous, but the outlandish situations seem… tame. Mostly, I’m just enjoying the wish-fulfillment of watching a woman president. Continue reading “Tasty Chefs, Veep, and Doubts to Donuts”
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Exploring New Places, July 2018
The evacuation of Heffe VIII occurred when Jeaunia was only a pup. Her memories of waiting in the long lines on the hot spaceport tarmac were dim. She did remember playing games with her cousins on the crowded flight to Crossroads Station afterward, and she thought she could remember the view of the swollen Heffen sun through the spaceship’s rear windows. She couldn’t be sure, though. The bloody smear of red giant sunlight in her memories could have been a fabrication. She had been very young. Continue reading “The Promise of New Heffe”
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Tales from the Guild: Music to Your Ears, September 2014
There is nothing better than a patch of early evening sunlight, especially with the quiet strains of an opera playing on the Red-Haired Woman’s television in the other room. There is nothing worse than watching an uncouth dog, lolling unappreciatively, in the single square of sun left on the kitchen floor, insensible to both the golden warmth and the soft singing in the distance.
According to my spreadsheet, this month I passed the mark of having written one million words of fiction.
Ah, late night video hour, when you somehow end up watching a Harvard class day speech by Andy Samberg.
The five-year-old has decided to dress up as a pirate for his dentist appointment, because he knows he’ll get to pick a reward from a treasure chest at the end. Continue reading “Speeches, Pirates, Shakespeare-ish”
Always Be My Maybe (starring Ali Wong & Randall Park, with a notable guest appearance by Keanu Reeves) is totally delightful, beginning to end.
I’ve really missed working on an Otters In Space novel. Trugger always surprises me, and it’s so delightful. Continue reading “From Keanu Reeves to Flowers and Back”
My brain was so excited about starting a new Otters In Space novel that I couldn’t sleep and thumb-typed a whole bunch on my phone in bed, and when I did fall asleep, I kept writing all night; unfortunately my devices are notoriously bad at recording words I write in my dreams. Continue reading “Starting a New Otters In Space!”
I’ve been seeing a lot of interest in my robot stories, ever since “The Three Laws of Social Robotics” came out in Analog. So this page is a guide to where readers can find more of my stories about Maradia’s robots. Continue reading “Maradia’s Robots”