A few weeks back I bought a few books. Just some light reading, mostly stuff that’s released in the last decade that I haven’t been able to keep up with. Sadly, I haven’t had the chance to read any of them… I started Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future” and got about halfway through before I stalled out due to depression. That book is a depressing read. Prophetic in many ways, tragic in others, but gosh is it ever a bleak outlook on human nature.

I’ll probably finish it this weekend, if I’m lucky… but the moral of this story is that all the new books I bought? Haven’t even touched them yet. Mostly due to working on my own stuff… more short stories and audio stories than you can shake a laser sword at. All of it hovering around 85% done… the worst time, because it’s done enough that the inclination is to start the next project, rather than drag the current one across the line.

But I’m gonna finish these… soon, no less. The audio stories are closest, they just need a little bit of music and then a tiny bit of audio editing and then they’re done. The short stories need more work, but not a lot. And the novel… always the novel sitting there, waiting for me to finish with my little flights of fancy before I return to it.

Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!