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These are the voyages of the HMSS Canto, a deep space exploratory vehicle ship run by the Terran Homo Piscine survivors of 2419.More to come
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Very original thought in this. The lighting could have been slightly better, as the mermaid at the console is either wearing a cap, as her head seems slightly cut off!
I seem to remember the Captain, Jean I think, allowing unbuttoned jackets instead of bras. This would I'm sure keep the DA moderators happy. It would also help to define the crew regarding their status. That way, the breasts can be partly hidden.
Would it be possible to smooth out the tails, so the individual joints are not so apparent. I have always preferred tails showing no bends at the knee.
All in all, I am so glad to the Voyage of the Canto being revived. Keep up the good work.
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Pardon if the premise of these Canto pieces is documented somewhere, but I haven't noticed any write-ups or links.
In any event, I like your artwork and the overall concept, but a few real-world (sic) ramifications are troubling me.
In this case, the mermaid on the right seems to be sitting in a chair, held in by gravity, while the one on the left seems to be floating in free-fall. I initially wondered if the ship was full of water instead of air, but their clothing and hair don't seem to be underwater. Is there some explanation for this? Otherwise, it seems like a continuity break.
I also thought that perhaps the ship as a whole had zero gravity but the the chair had a gravity generator in its seat, but if that were true their hair wouldn't be hanging down, especially the blonde's, which doesn't look like it loaded with hairspray of anything.
This is still a cool piece, though. Thanks!
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Have you found the story? May I take a look at it? Seems interesting...
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Nicely done. I believe that i have "The Song of the Canto" as a PDF file from 2006. If you wish it I can sent it.
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Oh- so now the Canto is a spaceship rather than a submarine, eh?
Speaking of which, did you ever finish that story?
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I did finish Canto, but it has long since disappeared into the mists of the Internet (I actually went looking for it a few days ago with no luck, so if anyone happens to have a copy of even part of it, I'd be appreciative.)
I'm trying to gather the older works that I did in the last ten to fifteen years and make an anthology of them as an eBook, going back and revising as appropriate and creating a common thread to most (Gina's probably the only exception there - it was more fantasy and less sci-fi) but the others - Boson's Mate, Mermaid and Meerjungfrau, Rain, A Sea Change, Canto, and A Sea of Stars all form an extended story line from the late 19th century to the 23rd. The first two are in preliminary draft (I've written story outlines for them, but not a lot actually written yet), Rain, Sea Change and Canto are all either done or mostly done, while a Sea of Stars I'm sketching out in my head right now (the "storyboards" I'm doing here are part of that). I may entitle the book The Daughters of Proteus, but am not sure yet.
A mermaid is a secondary character in the first of the Storm Crow series, which I'm hoping to get completed and perhaps self-published by Norwescon this year. I also have a few others that are not necessarily mermaid related - For Alice, which is the first of the Queens of Albion Series (which I've completed the principle draft for and am in rewrites), Tau, which is set in Japan in the late 21st century, and the Temporal Adventures of Penelope Jones, which is a steampunk time travel book. I also have in the (deep) background the Iorde series, which are based upon a set of fantasy stories that I told my youngest brother, then my two daughters; always, the biggest issue is time.
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I remember when you first started writing "...Canto", you had it as a stand-alone short story of a blue-tailed mermaid haunting sailors aboard a US submarine to their doom. Do you remember what that first chapter was called before you turned it into a multi-chapter story? That may help if you find a snippet from just that one chapter, maybe lead to the rest of it.
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That would be "Ice". Damned ice...
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Ah yes, that was it's name...
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Years ago I started a four-part story about an innocent teenage mermaid who is recruited by a human space military organization to save Earth from an alien invasion, but I never got past the second chapter and both chapters are in need of clean-up.
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