#janet edwards

[skygemspeaks]

so many of hospital earth's decisions suddenly make sense once you realize that their goal isn't to make the lives of earth citizens easier, but to make it so that as many babies with immune syndrome as possible are raised as wards of hospital earth. Because the more wards they have, the more funding they likely get from parliament of planets

Now that earth is finally going to be represented in parliament of planets and hospital earth is no longer going to be a dictatorship making uncontested governing decisions for them, i imagine one of the first laws that's going to change is the one stating that only the parents of babies with immune syndrome can be their guardians. Because you KNOW there has be a bunch of aunties and uncles and grandparents who wanted desperately to care for their nibling/grandchild who was abandoned by the parents.

Hell, jarra herself would likely have been taken in by riak when marack and gemena couldn't step in to claim custody of her.

[thatoctokittenclutchinganotebook]

I keep wondering what the second roman empire was like for the Betan military clans. If I could pick a random time period from the Portal Future and request a short story from Janet Edwards, I think it would be that. We get glimpses of how the Military feel about it in Earth Flight, but rereading the descriptions of it in Earth Girl makes me question. The summary Ventrak Rostha gives of events treats the military as completely seperate from beta. All military personnel had to leave. Military Personnel could stay on the solar arrays for five years to train replacements. That seems to imply either that none of the staff of the solar arrays were Betan, or that even Betan military personnel were asked to leave.

What was it like for the Military Clans then? Was Beta Sector only able to declare a Second Roman Empire because they had the help of the Military clan alliance, or did they force those people out of Beta sector?

It feels like the Tell clan is too important and powerful to have been forced out, but I can't remember when the Chimera happened. Whether it was before or after the second roman empire. I need tu check. And then maybe write Fanfiction.

[avaloque]

dear portal future fandom,

should i read hive mind? i'm so attached to earth girl that deviating to the other series seems like a betrayal. but give it straight to me and tell me whether i should get over this hangover of mine and start reading them.

sincerely, someone who reads the earth girl trilogy at least once a year

[jextell2514]

On Lottery and on growing up - a Telepath webweave

Sources:

Telepath, Janet Edwards, page 301 ⬩ Child Picking Flowers, Frank Hector Tompkins ⬩ Bones, AvidMC ⬩ Memorial: A Version of Homer’s Iliad, Alice Oswald ⬩ girl in black and white striped long sleeve shirt standing on green grass field during daytime, Caroline Hernandez ⬩ Christmas Pageant, Amanda Fagan ⬩ 3 white dice on black surface, Alois Komenda ⬩ Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Billy Joel ⬩ Telepath, Janet Edwards, page 43

[connectingsparkingwebs]

Tore through the Hive Mind/Hive Future novels in the past several days (after running into the series page on tv tropes and being interested) (haven’t read Perilous yet, and if I understand correctly the other works aren’t currently available?) and looking for fellow fans!

Have looked some at the search here already; would love to hear/see other people’s thoughts and if possible talk to people etc!

(Extra especially anything people have been doing with fusions and also developing other Hives! I’ve been somewhat developing some fusion ideas (with Untamed) (was actually part of what made me want to start reading!) and I think a few minutes ago just had an inspiration idea and seem to have started a Hive development.)

[primarilymedievalish]

Another drabble request! Maybe an outside perspective of Amber, perhaps from Gregas when she’s returning from the run with Tobias’s echo and screaming? Or any other moment/character you think would be interesting! Or anything Hive Mind, to be honest

[Triple feature :)]

1.

I would have stayed in the apartment, if I hadn't heard her screaming. And I wouldn't've known, she wouldn't have told me, I—

I ran—I ran, of course I ran, she was screaming and she never screamed and she was my sister—and who cared that they had said stay put when—she was my sister.

Curled up and closed-eyed and carried, and people—Lucas, her boyfriend—speaking softly. I ran—I ran. When she looked at me, her face was twisted tight and pinched. She looked like—

Rafael caught up. He dragged me away.

Amber didn't scream anymore.

2.

Isn't it sung in the Hive-songs we give for schoolchildren to sing? Everyone has a job to do.

I wonder, sometimes, when my hands stray for my violin; my ears to half a tune left humming. I wonder…

Understand me. I don't want to be a telepath. They have their duties, and so do I. We all have our lots in life. Mine are heavy: I carry them well.

Still, I wonder, sometimes, when Amber's words wander. It isn't that I want to be a telepath: not at all.

But—once. Just once, I'd like to hear the Hive-mind sing.

3.

The snow was thick; the air bitter ice. It was no place for wonder. A snowstorm was no place for a telepath.

Still Amber ran out, face uplifted, hair running wild and whited. Adika took her by the arm.

"You need to go straight back inside, Amber." She pulled away.

Words were tossed with that chill wind: all watched, all watched. A slip of a girl, buried in the snowfall; shedding off ghosts like a silver skin. She sat. The snow made angel's wings.

The Carnival world was full of light. All watched: all watched.

Her Outside smile was luminous.

[whichbooktournament]

Defying Doomsday (2016) by Various Fiction | Young Adult | Anthologies, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy

Teens form an all-girl band in the face of an impending comet. A woman faces giant spiders to collect silk and protect her family. New friends take their radio show on the road in search of plague survivors. A man seeks love in a fading world. How would you survive the apocalypse? Defying Doomsday is an anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it’s not always the “fittest” who survive – it’s the most tenacious, stubborn, enduring, and innovative characters who have the best chance of adapting when everything is lost.

The Shamer's Daughter (2000) by Lene Kaaberbøl Fiction | Middle Grade | Fantasy, Adventure

Dina has unwillingly inherited her mother's gift: the ability to elicit shamed confessions simply by looking into someone's eyes. To Dina, however, these powers are not a gift but a curse. Surrounded by fear and hostility, she longs for simple friendship. But when her mother is called to Dunark Castle to uncover the truth about a bloody triple murder, Dina must come to terms with her power--or let her mother fall prey to the vicious and revolting dragons of Dunark.

Which would you read?

Defying Doomsday

The Shamer's Daughter

Voting ended onMay 3

Defying Doomsday The Shamer's Daughter

[elveny]

Am I rereading Earth Girl yet again? You betcha.