{"id":2464,"date":"2015-05-09T16:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T22:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2015-05-09T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T22:27:53","slug":"travel-time-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"Travel & Time & Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday morning I head off for the first convention of the season, Keycon<\/a> in Winnipeg.\u00a0 My convention seasons have shortened, due to age and LifeStuff,\u00a0so I’m especially happy this year to be able to make an international trip after having to cancel plans for LonCon.<\/p>\n

I won’t be back until the following Wednesday.\u00a0 I am going computer-free this time, due to other LifeStuff involving electronics and lack of time to deal with complications.\u00a0 An old-fashioned notebook will go with me–it often sparks my writing anyway–and so will yarn and knitting needles.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Where NewBook is now…well, Editor likes my working title (Cold Welcome<\/em>) but it has to pass various committees to be accepted.\u00a0 So don’t fall in love with it, but I’ll be using it in talking about it, probably.\u00a0\u00a0 At the moment, since this is the relevant spot in the story, I’m writing on two fronts, both related to book-history.\u00a0\u00a0 One is Vatta-related, and the other is villain-related.\u00a0 We’ve always known–it’s certainly been hinted–that the Vattas were not always squeaky-clean, straight-arrow, upright citizens of wherever they came from.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s now clear that they were not a Founder family on Slotter Key, nor were they in the earlier waves of colonization.\u00a0 They were somewhere else, doing other things, some of them…well…illegal.\u00a0\u00a0 As in “We need that spaceship more than you do and we’re taking it” illegal.<\/p>\n

Why this matters a hundred or two-hundred years later is that the now-respectable Vattas of Slotter Key have history in other areas that they’d like to keep hidden, and their past may be less locked up and thrown away than they think.\u00a0 It’s possible, that Osman–the black sheep Vatta of the earlier books–may have gone to find great-grandpa’s former associates (from whom a ship was stolen) and offered them revenge.\u00a0 Or not.\u00a0 It’s not clear yet.\u00a0\u00a0 But there’s a bigger secret on Slotter Key, from the early days of its human settlement, and a huge, vast, monster of a secret as well that has implications for many more terraformed planets.<\/p>\n

Despite all Grace has done, she has not found what she’s sure exists–a conspiracy on Slotter Key, probably centered in a particular political group, to both eliminate Vatta and take over Slotter Key entirely, collaborating with “something” from outside.\u00a0 She is convinced that Gammis Turek, powerful as he was, was not the brains behind that war.<\/p>\n

I will be spending part of a day at the Field Museum in Chicago on the way to Winnipeg, looking for some stuff that will fit in with the rest of the book.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday morning I head off for the first convention of the season, Keycon in Winnipeg.\u00a0 My convention seasons have shortened, due to age and LifeStuff,\u00a0so I’m especially happy this year to be able to make an international trip after having to cancel plans for LonCon. I won’t be back until the following Wednesday.\u00a0 I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,12,107],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-research","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}