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  1. Jim Bowering (arjaybe@mastodon.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2019 12:34:00 EDT Jim Bowering Jim Bowering

    Transliterations of Alien Texts
    People ask why I use human referents in my stories about aliens. Why, for instance, did Archie take the name Archimedes when his history doesn't include Archimedes? Shouldn't Archie have named himself after a great mathematician from his own world? The answer is, he did, and I've substituted that alien name with o
    https://greencomet.org/2019/03/30/transliterations-of-alien-texts/
    #greencomet #language #parasitepuppeteers #TheFrancesians #ThePlainsrunner

    In conversation Saturday, 30-Mar-2019 12:34:00 EDT from mastodon.club permalink
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