Love in the Absence of Mosquitoes
May. 21st, 2011 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessMy short story, Love in the Absence of Mosquitoes, is now up at the Journal of Unlikely Entomology.
This story was sparked years back during a graduate class on chemical ecology, where I was supposed to be focusing on corals and naturally went other places instead. I admit that I hesitated before sending it to this particular journal, since, as you may note, the journal is supposed to be dealing with unlikely entomology, and I was dealing with quite likely entomology indeed. But a previous editor had loftily informed me that the science of the story was "too implausible," so I decided to gamble that the editors of this zine had not spent too much time perusing technical articles on chemical ecology and would agree that the science here is too implausible. Events proved me right, but I would like to note, for the record, that the science of this tale is quite, quite real, if still in the development stage. The rest is not.
Vani later decided to walk into a few other stories of mine, something I was not anticipating when I wrote this tale. Some of those stories happen to be in a very loosely linked series of tales, only one of which (And in its absence, hunger) has appeared so far. When I wrote this, I had no immediate plans to feature Vani again – although I knew she had more of a story – and certainly no plans to link her with the nyagon/Isfhan tales – so I'm not certain whether this story can be called part of that series or not. Hmm. Let's call it an accidental addition.
Since it's Saturday, and people often miss Saturday posts, plus the Rapture and all that, I'll probably throw up another link to this story sometime this week.
This story was sparked years back during a graduate class on chemical ecology, where I was supposed to be focusing on corals and naturally went other places instead. I admit that I hesitated before sending it to this particular journal, since, as you may note, the journal is supposed to be dealing with unlikely entomology, and I was dealing with quite likely entomology indeed. But a previous editor had loftily informed me that the science of the story was "too implausible," so I decided to gamble that the editors of this zine had not spent too much time perusing technical articles on chemical ecology and would agree that the science here is too implausible. Events proved me right, but I would like to note, for the record, that the science of this tale is quite, quite real, if still in the development stage. The rest is not.
Vani later decided to walk into a few other stories of mine, something I was not anticipating when I wrote this tale. Some of those stories happen to be in a very loosely linked series of tales, only one of which (And in its absence, hunger) has appeared so far. When I wrote this, I had no immediate plans to feature Vani again – although I knew she had more of a story – and certainly no plans to link her with the nyagon/Isfhan tales – so I'm not certain whether this story can be called part of that series or not. Hmm. Let's call it an accidental addition.
Since it's Saturday, and people often miss Saturday posts, plus the Rapture and all that, I'll probably throw up another link to this story sometime this week.