First off! I’ll be quiet next weekend, as I am off to World Fantasy in San Diego! At this very moment, I am completely failing to get up and start choosing clothes to pack. I hope to see some of you there! I have a panel on Saturday:<\/p>\n
5:00 PM<\/p>\n
Pacific 2\/3: Who Wants to Live Forever?: Immortals
\nMuch of fantasy literature posits immortal beings, even civilizations of immortals. How would that change . . . well . . . everything: a person\u2019s psychology, relationships, social structure, even economics? Are the gods different because they are powerful or just because they\u2019ve been around so long?<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Bear (M), Rhiannon Held, Gr\u00e1 Linnaea, James Sutter, David Trowbridge<\/p>\n
You’ll also notice that I’ve inaugurated a new tag for this post. This is in response to the fact that when I did a whole post about metaphors for cheese, I ended up with 11<\/em> search engine hits for it this month (combining various spellings). I have been concocting nefarious plans for this. One is to return to search engine hits and choose and nurture a new phrase. For instance, “the squirrel detective anecdote” from July seems like practically a short story seed.<\/p>\n Metaphors for various things come up with great regularity, so I’m also thinking of creating and setting a few of those free to see what results they draw in. Today’s?<\/p>\n METAPHOR FOR BEARS<\/p>\n Bears are like the feeling you have when you have to wake up far too early after partying the night before because you have to drive several hours back home, and your friend whose couch you crashed on doesn’t actually have much in the way of breakfast in the house, so you’re going to have to put on pants and actually drive somewhere to get some. Take that feeling from six people, pack it into an ambulatory form with teeth and claws, and it will roar and bite your head off. And that’s a bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First off! I’ll be quiet next weekend, as I am off to World Fantasy in San Diego! At this very moment, I am completely failing to get up and start choosing clothes to pack. I hope to see some of you there! I have a panel on Saturday: 5:00 PM Pacific 2\/3: Who Wants to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[33,32],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-around-me","category-travel","tag-fun-with-google","tag-world-fantasy"],"yoast_head":"\n