Oscar Wilde. On Mars
Jun. 2nd, 2015 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI forgot to mention, didn't I? My story in the special "Queers Destroy SF" issue of Lightspeed is the second story from my Mars Imperial sequence. Featuring Oscar Wilde, because if Mars were a province of the British Empire? Oscar would so very much have gone there. After gaol, after Paris. He would have got away from Paris, before the wallpaper could kill him.
My entire mind has been filled for two years now with "Y'know, if Mars were a province of the British Empire, then [x] would so very much have gone there..." I could people a planet with exiles. Hell, I am peopling a planet with exiles. Next up, T E Lawrence...
[EtA: the icon, of course, is the Martian flag: the Union flag with a red border. Red, red, white and blue...]
My entire mind has been filled for two years now with "Y'know, if Mars were a province of the British Empire, then [x] would so very much have gone there..." I could people a planet with exiles. Hell, I am peopling a planet with exiles. Next up, T E Lawrence...
[EtA: the icon, of course, is the Martian flag: the Union flag with a red border. Red, red, white and blue...]