Sodden thought.
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isomeme wrote a really good story about a space flight to Wolf 359 and a brief conversation between two passengers. Once at the spaceport, the passenger that the POV character had been speaking with looks up and wails in anguish "The Moons!" The planet had several moons, some of which were full that night. The story ends with "Then the howling began."
He really should have sent that into Analog. It was a good story.
But anyway, I was reading about Gilese 581g, and thought "this would be a great place to exile Earth's vampires! They could live over the edge of the twilight zone in the dark area. Humans would live on the edge of the sunward side, where vampires dare not go. Vampires get paid in whole blood. And obviously, death penalty offenses are handled by given to offender to the vampires.
I continued thinking, and realized that any Earth-like planet lacking a moon would be the perfect "leper colony" for weres of all shapes and sizes. Obviously they would be free to travel, but not any world with a moon that goes through phases! Based on an extensive viewing of Universal horror films on Saturdays when I was kid, the transformation is linked to an actual line of sight to the full moon, so weres could also safely work in any space that is completely sealed with no view ports.
isomeme wrote a really good story about a space flight to Wolf 359 and a brief conversation between two passengers. Once at the spaceport, the passenger that the POV character had been speaking with looks up and wails in anguish "The Moons!" The planet had several moons, some of which were full that night. The story ends with "Then the howling began."He really should have sent that into Analog. It was a good story.
But anyway, I was reading about Gilese 581g, and thought "this would be a great place to exile Earth's vampires! They could live over the edge of the twilight zone in the dark area. Humans would live on the edge of the sunward side, where vampires dare not go. Vampires get paid in whole blood. And obviously, death penalty offenses are handled by given to offender to the vampires.
I continued thinking, and realized that any Earth-like planet lacking a moon would be the perfect "leper colony" for weres of all shapes and sizes. Obviously they would be free to travel, but not any world with a moon that goes through phases! Based on an extensive viewing of Universal horror films on Saturdays when I was kid, the transformation is linked to an actual line of sight to the full moon, so weres could also safely work in any space that is completely sealed with no view ports.
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Date: 30 Sep 2010 05:18 (UTC)Not only did it turn him into his were-form, but because it was an artificial moon, the fur her sprouted was artificial. Polyester to be specific.
The end line was "And I'm allergic to polyester!"