Comments on: Watching Raindrops Fall

By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou

Nicolas Papaconstantinou — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:04:57 +0000

Peculiarly, you may be too expansive and imaginative a thinker.

I’ve noticed that some science-fiction is very formal and structured in approach, which doesn’t sit that comfortably with my own lazily expressionistic writing style.

By: Andrew Cheverton

Andrew Cheverton — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:44:43 +0000

Thank you, Rivka. You know, I’d written the whole thing as an alien intervention uplift/transcendence story before I realised myself that it’s also an invasion/annihilation of sorts.

By: Rivka Jacobs

Rivka Jacobs — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:19:17 +0000

Excellent science fiction short story, Andrew. When I was doing some research on physics of water drops, I came across concept of “coherence” and the merging of worlds, and then I realized you had already realized this concept in this story.

But more, this is an unnerving story, because the conquest of the earth, and humanity, is done so easily through playing on the need of people to believe in a higher power, or a life after death. To me, I finish the story and I’m thinking, “Okay, the S’ha Maharr just wiped out the human race, and convinced people it was really the Rapture.”

Technically you did a fine job of breaking through the time-barrier using tense in a consistently creative way.

Another excellent piece of work.

By: Andrew Cheverton

Andrew Cheverton — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:12:35 +0000

Thank you – I was expecting this one to be longer, in my mind. It might be my favourite of my attempts at science fiction. For a genre I love, I have great difficulty writing it.

By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou

Nicolas Papaconstantinou — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:32:00 +0000

Oh lovely… I’m glad I didn’t read this till just now, because it’s such a gorgeous piece, and such a pure exploration of the ideas, that I’d have faltered on my own piece…

(I touch really briefly on one of the ideas in here, by coincidence.)