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Jared Axelrod is an author, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a sculptor, a costume designer, a podcaster and quite a few other things that he's lost track of but will no doubt remember when the situation calls for it.
He is a founding member of the daily flash-fiction website 365 TOMORROWS, and the writer and producer of two science-fiction podcasts, “The Voice Of Free Planet X” and the serial “Aliens You Will Meet.
He is not domestic, he is a luxury, and in that sense, necessary.
Email: freeplanetx (at) gmail.comSkype: jared.axelrod
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Fables of the Flying City is steampunk graphic novel of airships, rayguns and how much information is too much information, illustrated by Steve Walker and Natalie Kelly. Listen to podcast to learn more about the flying city of Amperstam and the people who call it home.
An intergalactic ambassador has only the messages from his precognitive meeting planner to keep him from making a fool of himself. Aliens You Will Meet are those messages, in handy podcast form.
I am regular contributor to I Should Be Writing, providing both The News From Poughkeepsie and writing All Write!, a webcomic about writers, illustrated by Natalie Metzger.
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Lurker’s Guide to “A Bitter Brew”
July 14th, 2010
Fables o
f the Flying City, Episode 8 “A Bitter Brew”
Scene: The provost’s office, at the top of the Provost’s Tower
Characters involved: Provost Kitchener, Vice Provost Elderheim
References: The Vrussian Empire is, as you might have guessed, inspired by the Prussian Empire. I imagine the flag of Vrussia looks a lot like the flag of Prussia. A “boffin” is a essentially an “egghead” in British slang. Here, though, Boffins is a butler. Though he shares the same name, Provost Kitchener is not Lord Kitchener.
Notes: The Vrussian Empire get it’s first proper mention, in this dialogue between the two most powerful people in Amperstam. The Vrussains are almost boogeymen here, reminders that there is a world below, and that it could rise up, at any moment.
The star of the episode is Margoh Elderheim, the Vice-Provost. She is a character we see little of in this story, but she becomes an increasingly noteworthy presence in the next story, and major player in the graphic novel. Here, she is an idealist, stymied by Kitchener’s practicality. In a way, her arc is just as interesting as Ashe’s. But Ashe get’s to fly around, so we follow her, instead.
Elderheim drawing by Steve Walker
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