I have continued to write the story I'm working on, albeit slowly. I'm currently over 12,300 words, which is nearly the length of Ted Chiang's Story Of Your Life, and I'm probably about a quarter of the way through so far.
Wondering what TheMotte's opinion on lengthy scientific exposition in sci-fi is. I currently have a big block of speculative biochemistry in the latter half of the current draft of the story, and some of my beta-readers... don't like it. I've tried to simplify it so it's understandable while still maintaining the necessary verisimilitude, but in general I get the feeling it might be too much. Personally, I've always liked large infodumps of speculative science in my fiction, the chapter Orphanogenesis in Diaspora with its detailed and lengthy descriptions of how the conceptory creates an orphan is probably one of my favourite openings to a story ever, but in general this kind of thing seems to make people's eyes glaze over.
I have been making very weird music. There's a ridiculous amount of genre blending in it and I'm not sure if it appeals to anybody other than me, but it's fine if not - I'm just having fun with it for the first time in a long time.
Here are two long tracks for your listening pleasure (hopefully).
https://voca.ro/17EHXBzKIaYj
https://voca.ro/1nyZB7yhcJAJ
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