Oooh ...

Amazon has cover art for Patricia McKillip's Od Magic.

I love those covers. If I'm remembering right, I bought Song for the Basilisk in hardcover on the strength of the cover art, and the daintiness of the format, before I'd even read any of McKillip's other works.

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Still, alas, no art for Cherryh's Destroyer or Bujold's Hallowed Hunt, though thanks to kate_nepveu's recent post I have an idea what the latter looks like.

Daily Noodle, and other observations

I was up way too late last night watching the flare, and I really mean to try to go to bed early tonight. There has to be some way I can use that; the fascination of watching a trace on a screen and knowing what it means. I remember sheer joy in the abstract beauty of an upside-down exponential curve, the first time I got my experimental setup working for my doctoral research. At the end of a long day I pressed a key and there it was, an azure line leaping up and flattening out on the coarse-grained monitor screen as my ice sample charged up between its capacitor plates, and my heart leapt with it.

The Shipwights, it seems, like to leave pieces of abstract installation art lying around the place; this is some kind of communication.

After two days of unseasonal warmth and perfect light, the sky has disappeard behind a thin layer of grey, flat and soft as lint on a filter.

Rain!

Rather gentle rain, by the sound of it, but definitely wet. So far, it's staying outside. It would be nice if I could put the leaked-on corner of the living room back together before I go away next week, and in the absence of any rain to test the repairs I haven't dared so far.