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Finished! I'd count this as my favourite piece since I did "Body Werk" last year. One reason is that "Off-Trail" is a full blown Photochop coloured work, and is gorgeous even if I have to say so myself. For another, I've been doing sketches of Martian landscapes for a year now, and itching to bring one to this state of completion. For another, I always like doing Saara.
In the background you can see Tangel in a silver, all-over space suit (more of a force field). Saara doesn't need one, but Tangel' does. One could probably live on Mars without protection for a few seconds. While very cold, it isn't the cold that would kill you. The air pressure is about 1% what it is at sea level on Earth. It would empty your lungs instantly, and the fall in blood pressure a moment later would drop you unconscious. (Same thing happens in airplanes when depressurized.) But if you held your breath, and wore heavy clothes, you could probably stand on the Martian surface 30 seconds before cold and near-vacuum overcame you. It would take more like liquid oxygen temperatures before Saara froze, though.
Further back is my own shadowy presence.
The Anticipation progress report this was done for should be mailed out this week, according to the chairman.
In the background you can see Tangel in a silver, all-over space suit (more of a force field). Saara doesn't need one, but Tangel' does. One could probably live on Mars without protection for a few seconds. While very cold, it isn't the cold that would kill you. The air pressure is about 1% what it is at sea level on Earth. It would empty your lungs instantly, and the fall in blood pressure a moment later would drop you unconscious. (Same thing happens in airplanes when depressurized.) But if you held your breath, and wore heavy clothes, you could probably stand on the Martian surface 30 seconds before cold and near-vacuum overcame you. It would take more like liquid oxygen temperatures before Saara froze, though.
Further back is my own shadowy presence.
The Anticipation progress report this was done for should be mailed out this week, according to the chairman.
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Program books -- usually called Souvenir Books now, since the program is printed in a handier pocket guide these days -- are usually rather bland. They include a lot of advertising from book publishers and SF movies, articles about the guests, lists of old Hugo winners, articles on various aspects of fandom, guides for local restaurants and tourist attractions, and the latest version of the constitution regularing the worldcon.
(Most often they're soft covered and square bound. The covers are usually fairly attractive. I'm rather embarrassed that Torcon III, held in 2003, had an unusually amateurish Souvenir Book, that looked like a through back to the early 1970's. But the editor ignored available local talent, me for one, and seemed to have had limited experience in publishing herself. Torcon as a whole seemed to lack widespread connections to fandom as a whole, and it showed in the con. It's very odd, since the city had a large and deeply experienced SF fandom. It may be that the con didn't want their imput. But it's as likely the old timers were too tired to volunteer their services. Probably a little of both, but I think more of the former than the later.)
(Most often they're soft covered and square bound. The covers are usually fairly attractive. I'm rather embarrassed that Torcon III, held in 2003, had an unusually amateurish Souvenir Book, that looked like a through back to the early 1970's. But the editor ignored available local talent, me for one, and seemed to have had limited experience in publishing herself. Torcon as a whole seemed to lack widespread connections to fandom as a whole, and it showed in the con. It's very odd, since the city had a large and deeply experienced SF fandom. It may be that the con didn't want their imput. But it's as likely the old timers were too tired to volunteer their services. Probably a little of both, but I think more of the former than the later.)
Well... fannish memory of Torcon III isn't as fond as it might be. Most people managed to enjoy themselves, and an adequate amount of the arrangments proceeded competently. But on the whole it was regarded as a poorly run Worldcon. It joins a short list of those memorable as poorly run, but not the even shorter list of those that were outright disasters.
The Worldcon is one of SF's fandom's oldest institutions, and the site is chosen two years in advance by the membership of that year's Worldcon. The first was run ad hoc in 1939, in New York City. The next was held in Chicago I think, and the third in Denver in 1941. There was an understandable hiatus during the war years, but the institution continued in 1946 in LA, and has run annually every year since. While not as large as many comics, Trek, or multi-media cons, it is the supreme event of the SF calendar. Apart from three or four guests, large numbers of pros attend willingly because its a get-together not only of fans but their own peers, cronies, publishers, and editors. The relationship between pros and fans has always been much closer than it usually is in comics or Trek fandom. The Worldcon also has exlusive rights to present the Hugo Award every year. No other award but the Nebula (given by a self-elected panel of writers) has as much prestige in the field.
Toronto has hosted the Worldcon three times to date. Torcon I was in 1948 and was considered one of the best loved of the early Worldcons. Torcon II in 1973 was one I attended, and also enjoyed a good reputation. (I was too new in fandom to play any role in running it, though.) The third, in 2003, has undermined Toronto fandoms reputation enough that's its doubtful the Worldcon will he hosted here again for another 25 years...
Toronto has hosted the Worldcon three times to date. Torcon I was in 1948 and was considered one of the best loved of the early Worldcons. Torcon II in 1973 was one I attended, and also enjoyed a good reputation. (I was too new in fandom to play any role in running it, though.) The third, in 2003, has undermined Toronto fandoms reputation enough that's its doubtful the Worldcon will he hosted here again for another 25 years...
Saara's dress is really a sort of work-suit. She doesn't need its protection on a relatively benign planet like Mars, but would need it on, say, Titan. Titan is a just a bit too cold, and eventually her body temp would fall to the point she'd freeze up. (Though not permanently.)
Her silvery garments needn't be in the form of the tunic, though that's the most common form she uses. It could be just a collar or wrist band, and will metamorphize to any form she wishes. It does more than protect against enviroment -- it could ward off an atomic blast with ease, but also works as a personala computer, multi-media connection, levitator, force field manipulator, or tire iron... "I" usually carry one myself, even if under my t-shirt or jeans, but feel silly wearing it in full form.
More than just a sort of overall and tool, her tunic is literally a physical extension of her starship's hull. The connection is through a sort of sub-space and not visible or easily severed. The mirror-like appearance is a result of the "material" being a gravitational effect rather than a solid substance. (Something like a higher dimensional blackhole that conforms to any shape without altering its hyperdimensional geometry.) It's seamless and volumless, and can flow like water when desired. So one doesn't have to unbutton or unzip it. You want it off, it falls to the floor. Or contacts to a bead or bracelet.
Her silvery garments needn't be in the form of the tunic, though that's the most common form she uses. It could be just a collar or wrist band, and will metamorphize to any form she wishes. It does more than protect against enviroment -- it could ward off an atomic blast with ease, but also works as a personala computer, multi-media connection, levitator, force field manipulator, or tire iron... "I" usually carry one myself, even if under my t-shirt or jeans, but feel silly wearing it in full form.
More than just a sort of overall and tool, her tunic is literally a physical extension of her starship's hull. The connection is through a sort of sub-space and not visible or easily severed. The mirror-like appearance is a result of the "material" being a gravitational effect rather than a solid substance. (Something like a higher dimensional blackhole that conforms to any shape without altering its hyperdimensional geometry.) It's seamless and volumless, and can flow like water when desired. So one doesn't have to unbutton or unzip it. You want it off, it falls to the floor. Or contacts to a bead or bracelet.
*gapes*
That is so coooooool. Thank you for the story material! I know you have stories out there, I know I've seen them in place to place. I think they were a serial in some sci-fi comic? But I've completely lost memory of *where* that was. Do you happen to have a collected story comic that I could buy somewhere?
Anyway, that's what really gets me connected to a piece of art. When it has story behind it. You can tell when a piece of art has story behind it, but I had no idea every little detail had such a story. That's really really awesome.
That is so coooooool. Thank you for the story material! I know you have stories out there, I know I've seen them in place to place. I think they were a serial in some sci-fi comic? But I've completely lost memory of *where* that was. Do you happen to have a collected story comic that I could buy somewhere?
Anyway, that's what really gets me connected to a piece of art. When it has story behind it. You can tell when a piece of art has story behind it, but I had no idea every little detail had such a story. That's really really awesome.
Well, there were the Beatric comics, but that's a completely unrelated story line. But I think one reason Steve Gallacci (who invented the character) wanted me to work on it was that I did these metallic dresses well. (A bit of a superficial reason, but I think he made the right choice anyway, ahem.)
There's art of Saara and her friends scattered through my gallery. By comparison, I haven't much written work. You could try a prose piece called "Vaster Than Empires," and another called "GoH" in my Scraps area for some further background.
The problem with the entire Dalmirin/Willow Run background (which Saara is a part of) is that it has no central story line.
There's art of Saara and her friends scattered through my gallery. By comparison, I haven't much written work. You could try a prose piece called "Vaster Than Empires," and another called "GoH" in my Scraps area for some further background.
The problem with the entire Dalmirin/Willow Run background (which Saara is a part of) is that it has no central story line.
I suspect they're already in her front yard, being employed as planters. 500 years from now the Smithsonian will be petitioningher planet to return "precious cultural artifacts" to the people who created them.
(And her answer will "Certainly... the day the British museum rutrrns the Elgin marbles to Greece, and Moscow returns the treasure found at Troy to Turkey.")
(And her answer will "Certainly... the day the British museum rutrrns the Elgin marbles to Greece, and Moscow returns the treasure found at Troy to Turkey.")
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