Been a while since I could squee but "Stranger Seas Than These" will be forthcoming in @clarkesworldmagazine.com Anna Maria De Costa, a submersible pilot, is on an expedition deep in an alien sea to research the corpse of an enigmatic Godwhale with a scientist and a alien worshipping nun - ThreadSky

lchanwrites.bsky.social • 138 days ago

Been a while since I could squee but "Stranger Seas Than These" will be forthcoming in @clarkesworldmagazine.com

Anna Maria De Costa, a submersible pilot, is on an expedition deep in an alien sea to research the corpse of an enigmatic Godwhale with a scientist and a alien worshipping nun

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charlesatan.bsky.social•138 days ago

Congrats!

mimulus.bsky.social•138 days ago

This sounds absolutely incredible. Excited to read this!

lchanwrites.bsky.social•138 days ago

I learned many things while researching this story, for example, that cephalopods use ammonium ions for buoyancy.

epapasoulioti.bsky.social•137 days ago

Congratulations! 🎉

lchanwrites.bsky.social•138 days ago

when an earthquake damages their sub and cuts off comms to the surface, their only refuge is the carcass of the Godwhale. Running low on air and power, their only way out may be hidden in the mind of the dead alien - but at what cost?

lchanwrites.bsky.social•138 days ago

Thanks to @vanessafogg.bsky.social and @elianeboey.bsky.social for being beta reading victims!

lchanwrites.bsky.social•138 days ago

If you made it this far, here's telly with his paw up

foxesandroses.bsky.social•138 days ago

Congratulations!!

thesuiway.bsky.social•138 days ago

amazing!!! congratulations!

finstergrrrl.bsky.social•134 days ago

congrats!!! can’t wait to read it!

vanessafogg.bsky.social•138 days ago

Congrats, L!!!

amulderwrites.bsky.social•138 days ago

Omg this sounds SO GOOD

cindyphanauthor.com•138 days ago

Congrats!! Very excited to read this one, it is so my jam (Godwhale carcasses and all) 🐳

lchanwrites.bsky.social•138 days ago

if I had a dollar every time I wrote about some variation of a whale fall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall)...

I'd have 3 dollars.

Which isn't a lot, but it's strange that it's happened 3 times.

cindyphanauthor.com•138 days ago

I am utterly fascinated by stuff like this. Maybe I should’ve been a marine biologist. Or a hagfish. Either would have suited.

I keep writing about fish, without really meaning to. So far, 5 dollars worth.

lchanwrites.bsky.social•138 days ago

well after writing this story I discovered that fish use swim bladders for buoyancy but giant squid use ionic exchange of ammonium ions.

cindyphanauthor.com•138 days ago

SO COOL 🦑