The best #StarWars#novels I've read are by #JamesLuceno, particularly #DarthPlagueis, which should be at the top of any fan's reading list, detailing decades of galactic history leading up to #TPM, from about 65 BBY.
Note that Plagueis is not canon. Some of Luceno's later novels are, including #Tarkin and #Catalyst. Catalyst in particular is notable for being hundreds of pages of #Krennic manipulating pacifist #GalenErso into his work on the #DeathStar.
Anybody know what publishers generally prefer when it comes to novel lengths? Is there even a strong preference? I’m writing in SFF, like many of you, in case that makes a difference.
I currently read some crime #novels again. Fiction literature. And there are many encounters with police gaining access to someone's (either criminal or victim) #email content, private messages on #SocialMedia, text messages on #phone etc. I wonder if it could be really possible in real world.
Or what would happen if someone use hard disk encryption? Do they have these #data from service providers? Could using encrypted email service like #Protonmail or #Tutanota prevent this? If I understand correctly, emails content is encrypted in rest.
Are regular data deletion, history cleaning and/or disappearing messages (like #signal features) effective for this?
If someone avoid big mainstream services, only niche/encrypted/self-hosted ones are they safe?
Is it possible to become immune to this both via software/service choices and online habits? How to achieve this if so?
I don't want to commit crimes, only become "invincible" :blobcatjoy:
#QuestionOfTheDay: what's your books, comics or general writing hot take? Like an actually scorching hot take that you actually believe and would cause controversy.
"Just one person worked there permanently, an Indian man who had been there for years, though in reality his situation was no different from ours. He didn't have insurance or paid holidays. He worked in silence, patiently, at an even keel. He was never late. He never found any need to take time off."
Flights - Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft) 1/2 #quotes#bookstodon#books#reading#novels#translation#Fitzcarraldo#OlgaTokarczuk
"Everybody looks at everybody all the time and you don't need to be a celebrity to feel the need for privacy. I myself was recently in big trouble with my Confessor for being slow to post a birthing video. I'm not talking about being either an extrovert or an introvert: I'm talking about people who don't believe privacy is a perversion, people who think it might even be a virtue."
If you want to find official #StarWars authors, artists and other persons of interests for #reading folks of #canon and #StarWarsLegends#novels and #comics here on Mastodon, check our "following" list. There aren't terribly many, but more than you might realise. Also, if we missed any accounts, feel free to point them out to us.
Hi fellow book nerds! I'm trying to put together a Utopian Book Club (focused on novels and novellas). I want to include LeGuin's The Dispossessed and @pluralistic 's Walkaway, but from there I've got an endless list of mostly white dudes.
What cool utopian fiction by BIPOC writers have I missed out on?
SISTERS, CLINGING TOGETHER after a family tragedy leaves one with profound brain injuries and the other with responsibilities she can barely handle, find separate ways through crises. Lovely mix of Trinidadian legends and European fairy tales.
Asking this again to see if I can get more ideas: What are your favorite examples of typographically interesting/playful British fiction? I've got Tristram Shandy, B.S. Johnson, and Rawle's Women's World (and of course Joyce!), but it turns out I'm surprisingly more familiar with American examples. What other British novels play around with graphic design and visual format? #novels#academicchatter