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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 “Gatling Has No Trouble Squinting”
August 20th, 2010
Fables of the Flying City, Episode 12 “Gatling Has No Trouble Squinting”
Scene: Ostensibly a room in the Redlaw Arms, but Gatling episodes tend to wander
Characters involved: Hanner Gatling
References: Gatling is clearly a fan of William Carlos William’s poem “This Is Just To Say”, despite living in a world far removed from his. Amperstam’s practice of copying all the books visitors brought with them was started with the Library of Alexandria, where you couldn’t visit the city without have your boat searched and your scrolls (temporarily) confiscated.
Notes: This episode, like “Gatling Strides Forth,” is peak into the most popular one-sheet in the world of Fables of the Flying City: Hanner Gatling’s The Hunter. Gatling is, my favorite character to write, because she gets to be bold. The cast of this story are frequently trapped in their own uncertainty, but Gatling will have none of that. Ashe is getting there, and we see in Gatling who Ashe might one day become, but even Ashe is plagued by doubts and worries. Gatling is plagued by nothing but her own drive and her search for the Truth. She may be a woman with regrets–something we’ll see more of, later–but she has never doubted who she is or her place in the world. And with a cast of young people trying to find out who they are, it’s refreshing to write someone who’s already got it all figured out.
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