Interesting Links for 13-02-2022

[andrewducker]

Douglas Adams has an interesting answer when asked what kind of computer Arthur Dent had

(tags:computers fiction writing douglasadams HHG2G )

Russia tensions reveal threat to UK food supplies

(tags:UK food Russia Doom )

In Moscow, Macron found a different, tougher Putin

(tags:France Russia nato )

Britishvolt gigafactory: Britain's best-kept industrial secret is an unexpected solution to saving the planet (I didn't know most of this, fascinating stuff)

(tags:batteries oil carbon UK manufacturing )

'Futurama' Revived At Hulu; John DiMaggio Not Returning As Bender

(tags:Futurama tv animation )

220 musicians perform "Europe - The Final Countdown"

(tags:music video russia )

Why 'Death on the Nile' is every publicist's worst nightmare

(tags:movies Doom )

Evolution is just amazing

(tags:evolution animals snake video insects birds )

Thread of metal statues where one part has been stroked so much that it's shiny

(tags:statue )

Comments

[anna_wing]

I rather agree with the Adams position. Obviously ithere'll be things that you don't necessarily wwant to put in explicitly in your fiction, but which will inform how you write the character and the world. I recall Roger Zelazny saying something along those lines. But I'm not a fan of the "characters have independent existence" trope, which I find rather twee.

[andrewducker]

I don't object to world-building, and to authors working out more complex backgrounds. But I agree that the idea that there's an infinitely detailed world the story exists in, that the author is reporting back from, doesn't feel at all right to me.