This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it. - ThreadSky

catvalente.bsky.social • 18 days ago

This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford.

I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.

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foxityfox.bsky.social•7 days ago

📌

tristanbeiter.bsky.social•18 days ago

I know there have been efforts to get his work back in print; is there a collection of his poetry? ("Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" which I only know about because I happen to own the Year's Best Fantasy (later Fantasy and Horror) edited by Datlow/Windling with it, is a favorite poem of mine)

catvalente.bsky.social•18 days ago

I LOVE THAT POEM

tristanbeiter.bsky.social•18 days ago

IT'S SO GOOD!

genevievecogman.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s one of my favourites! This is another.

WSCS is included in the anthology of his works Heat Of Fusion.

joea64.bsky.social•18 days ago

According to Wikipedia an agreement to do so was reached in late 2019.

louisevans.bsky.social•7 days ago

Threw a sneaky reference to it into my current MS. Nobody’s doing it like Ford was.

doiredoire.bsky.social•18 days ago

With alt text

gwenynen.bsky.social•18 days ago

📌

pixelfish.bsky.social•17 days ago

A favourite of mine as well.

popelizbet.bsky.social•17 days ago

can k alt text this love

lenorarose.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/doiredoire.bsky.social/post/3lhespqajyk22

joea64.bsky.social•18 days ago

I always enjoyed his work, especially in Star Trek: TOS (his Klingons are arguably better than the canon Klingons) and for various TTRPG's.

2ndlevelbard.bsky.social•7 days ago

His sidebar "Why People Support Rotten Empires" in GURPS Space is just wonderful - as game and worldbuilding advice, as sociological observation, as humane wisdom. And, yanno, all too relevant still.

cklownie73.bsky.social•7 days ago

2ndlevelbard.bsky.social•7 days ago

God, he just nailed it.

lainielipson.bsky.social•7 days ago

Wow. Thank you!

mytholder.bsky.social•18 days ago

Isn’t that the one that he wrote in response to someone complaining their hard drive had just died?

darthparadox.bsky.social•7 days ago

"If I were a better writer I’d conclude by yoking the trivial to the tragic, relating the twin inevitabilities of death and database error by means of a rhetorical figure involving worms." - @pnh.nielsenhayden.com, prompting one of the finest sonnets I've ever read

https://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html

pnh.nielsenhayden.com•7 days ago

Yeah, if I could do that consistently, life would be amazing.

catvalente.bsky.social•7 days ago

Patrick, you have done that, consistently, for decades. Know that you have.

xanadian.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yeah, he would just riff like that at the drop of a hat. Incredible talent.

grouchomerckx.bsky.social•7 days ago

Nearly - it was written in a few hours as a comment in response to a blogpost by @pnh.nielsenhayden.com about "the twin inevitabilities of death and database error"

https://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html

merelydovely.bsky.social•6 days ago

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