Recent posts in category Flight of the Vajra
The "remastered" version of "Flight Of The Vajra" is now available!
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020-11-23 21:00:00
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After some delays and fribble, I'm pleased to announce the "remastered" version of Flight Of The Vajra, with new cover art and tweaked innards, under the Infinimata Press brand, is now available in both recycled-tree and recycled-electron versions.
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Happenings at Chez Infinimata that are not current-events-related.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020-11-09 21:00:00
A progress report from the week of last Tuesday.
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The proof copy for the remastered "Flight Of The Vajra" has landed. With a big thud.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020-10-30 21:00:00
Proof copy for the remastered Flight Of The Vajra went thud on the doorstep last night. No wonder it left a dent. Look at that thing. It probably stops point-blank .22s!
I'll be giving the inside the full rundown this coming weekend, but a cursory once-over tells me it's good.
I'm still amazed this thing turned into the monster it did. No, maybe not amazed; it's actually easier than it looks to write a long book these days. It's hard to write one that sustains its length, though, and I'm still dubious with myself as to whether I pulled that off here. But I'm still proud of what I ended up with.
To steal an old chestnut: "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter book."
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I had to fight the urge to make changes to 'Flight Of The Vajra' in its new edition.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020-10-22 21:00:00
What with Welcome To The Fold's remaster out of the way, I've now turned to getting Flight Of The Vajra remastered. With that came a temptation I've talked about many times before: the urge to rewrite the book, or at the least cut pieces of it that for some reason have gotten stuck in the back of my mind, like splinters under the skin. Just to shut myself up, I went back and re-read the passages in question, and found that they were nowhere nearly as terrible as I remembered. I left them in.
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New editions of 'Welcome To The Fold' and 'Flight Of The Vajra' are coming.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020-10-07 20:00:00
Against many rather distracting odds, I dug out some time for myself and prepared the new editions of Welcome To The Fold and Flight Of The Vajra. Proof editions for both should be headed by way in the next week or so, and if they're good then I'll OK them and have the Kindle editions approved at the same time.
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For fun I sat down and mentally traced the progress of my earlier SF-space-opera thingy Flight Of The Vajra.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2018-09-09 17:00:00
We got to talking the other day about how the finished version of a story looks nothing like its original version. For fun I sat down and mentally traced the progress of my earlier SF-space-opera thingy Flight Of The Vajra. Even I was surprised by the number of steps involved, and the evolution along the way.
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How 'Flight Of The Vajra' could have begun altogether differently.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2017-09-05 12:00:00
It's tough finding the right way into a story sometimes. I must have written something like four or five openings for Flight Of The Vajra (my gonzo far-future space opera shindiggythingy) before finally settling on the one I have now. Some of those alternate openings could have been great, but I think if I'd used them as conceived, they would have come at a debilitating cost to the story as a whole.
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