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Looking back, I often wonder if it’s all been worth it, or if this was just a ridiculous folly. It’s hard to tell sometimes, but I guess that in the end it doesn’t even really matter anymore. Esther Kruschenko died today. *** I’m not sure I could put a finger on exactly when I worked it out, but the first hints were certainly while I was studying at University. I was an average student; I turned up to most but not all of my Maths lectures, and managed to pass enough examinations to avoid gett...
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WEDNESDAY The little ball clicks and clatters its way around the wheel, before coming to rest in a familiar spot. “36, red,” calls the croupier, being met with the familiar mix of sighs and high-fives. It's very crowded in the Stardust Sands Casino, Las Vegas. It's also four days until the end of the world, and I'm excruciatingly busy. I'm walking between tables, keeping an eye on the events at each and every one of the hundred and twenty one roulette wheels. From the highest of the high roll...
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It scans perfectly to me. The trick isn't just getting the syllable count but also the flow and the stress on the correct ones, and this works really well. I love the first rhyming couplet, but the final line doesn't quite hit the heights for me. It's still enjoyable, and I can kind of see what it means, but it doesn't seem quite self-evident enough for my taste. Even so, a good limerick.
I think that there'd be a tremendous clamour from certain areas of society to work in such a place! It's a fun little notion, and well drawn. I'm not really sure why we use cows more than any other animals... maybe they have the biggest udders?
This is a good hard SF story. I love the concept of a star being used as a 'makeshift blowtorch', and the grand scale upon which the story plays out. It's hard to pick specific faults as writing like this is often obtuse and plays off being hard to immediately understand. I mean this in a good way, as there needs to be a sense of wonder for it to work. If I had any criticisms it would be that occasionally sentences don't quite work for me. Here's an example: "At the moment they were in null s...
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This has got great potential. You need to tighten up the writing in terms of typos, spelling errors, grammar and so on, but underneath that is a great idea and a fresh, interesting narrative tone. Examples of errors would be "you're" instead of "your" and "stared" instead of "started". Those aside, if you get this proof-read and corrected then you're definitely on the road to something good, and I would read a second and third chapter without a doubt.
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