Outofambit - Out Of Ambit

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12 years ago
Rebloggable By Request - What Exactly Is Young Wizards?
Rebloggable By Request - What Exactly Is Young Wizards?
Rebloggable By Request - What Exactly Is Young Wizards?

rebloggable by request - what exactly is young wizards?

10 years ago
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 
Orbital Mechanics By Tatiana Plakhova 

Orbital Mechanics by Tatiana Plakhova 

11 years ago

How much of YW was planned from the beginning? E.g. did you know about Bobo when you were still writing SYWTBAW?

Nope. Bobo happened along the way.

I did know from the very beginning that this was going to be a series (contrary to some people’s beliefs, especially the ones who consider the closure at the end of High Wizardry very complete). But initially I wasn’t sure where I was going with it except in very general terms. By the end of Deep Wizardry, though, I was starting to get some ideas of some things that were going to have to happen, and of how much further this could go if I got lucky and the sales were good enough to keep me at the same publisher. …But then the publisher (Dell) changed hands (managerially) and “changed directions”, as they like to say, and just after I turned in High Wizardry they started the process of offloading all their midlist authors and concentrating their attention and promotion on their bestselling writers. (In the process, for example, throwing Jane Yolen overboard. How stupid can you get?)

There has never been any overarching blueprint or master outline. But as I was working on HW I started to see the path ahead much more clearly. (Which got kind of frustrating when Dell dumped me; A Wizard Abroad wound up being published first in the UK, by Transworld / Corgi, and then by the SF Book Club, before Jane went on to wrangle the new YA imprint at Harcourt and bring me aboard). While I was working on Abroad I already knew that the events of The Wizard’s Dilemma would have to happen, and could see the difficulties that would come of them; and while I was working on Dilemma, the arc that kicks off in Holiday solidified a lot further. And so forth. This is the way it always seems to go in this series: things build and develop in three- or four-book stages, pulling in data from earlier books and making more sense of them in the overall picture.

Yet it would also be true to say that one specific issue-arc that launched in SYWTBAW has not yet paid off, has been more or less constantly on my mind since 1983, and will finally start its resolution in book 11. And whatever you’re thinking it is, I guarantee you that’s not what I have in mind. Seriously: this particular thing, no one will have seen coming. Promise.

There… that should make everybody crazy enough for one day.


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10 years ago
Annotation Of All The Known Globular Clusters In Messier 31 By Michael Van Doorn
Annotation Of All The Known Globular Clusters In Messier 31 By Michael Van Doorn
Annotation Of All The Known Globular Clusters In Messier 31 By Michael Van Doorn

Annotation of All The Known Globular Clusters in Messier 31 by Michael van Doorn

10 years ago

dear universe;

hello. i am writing to let you know you did good job on the stars, and also on dogs.

yours respectfully, me


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1 year ago
I Was So Cool And Fine And Normal About Dairine Callahan At Age Ten (I Was NOT, I Was SO NOT NORMAL,

I was so cool and fine and normal about Dairine Callahan at age ten (I was NOT, I was SO NOT NORMAL, and I have never become normal about her, she is a childhood blorbo and I have been rotating her like a 90’s windows screen saver for twenty-two years)

10 years ago
Fibonacci You Crazy Bastard….
Fibonacci You Crazy Bastard….
Fibonacci You Crazy Bastard….
Fibonacci You Crazy Bastard….
Fibonacci You Crazy Bastard….

Fibonacci you crazy bastard….

As seen in the solar system (by no ridiculous coincidence), Earth orbits the Sun 8 times in the same period that Venus orbits the Sun 13 times! Drawing a line between Earth & Venus every week results in a spectacular FIVE side symmetry!!

Lets bring up those Fibonacci numbers again: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34..

So if we imagine planets with Fibonacci orbits, do they create Fibonacci symmetries?!

You bet!! Depicted here is a:

2 sided symmetry (5 orbits x 3 orbits)

3 sided symmetry (8 orbits x 5 orbits)

5 sided symmetry (13 orbits x 8 orbits) - like Earth & Venus

8 sided symmetry (21 orbits x 13 orbits)

I wonder if relationships like this exist somewhere in the universe….

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