At Home with a Science-Fiction Family
The winner of the contest for the uncorrected proof of my upcoming book, The Last Mortal Man, is Ken Sato of San Ramon, CA. Congratulations! Everyone else who entered will get an autographed postcard and my sincere thanks for helping me update my mailing list.
The book lauch party for The Last Mortal Man will be on July 7th, at the University Bookstore in Seattle (near UW.) Details to follow.
So I was shopping recently with Kai (my two-year-old son) and we passed a display of toy blasters and light sabers that were perfectly proportioned to Kai and of course set at his eye level. Feeling a bit like a bad mother, I purchased my son minature weapons of destruction. This was, for the record, his first gun-like toy.
So we get home and the weapons are a huge hit, both with Kai and his father (Eric S. Nylund, also a science-fiction writer.) Eric pulled his light saber out of the closet and father and son began dueling. (Hmm? "KaiI am your father.")
Shortly after I took this picture I pulled my light saber out and the duel became a three-way battle. My concern about indoctrinating Kai to violence eased. Apparently we are just the kind of family where everyone has a light saber.
The book lauch party for The Last Mortal Man will be on July 7th, at the University Bookstore in Seattle (near UW.) Details to follow.
So I was shopping recently with Kai (my two-year-old son) and we passed a display of toy blasters and light sabers that were perfectly proportioned to Kai and of course set at his eye level. Feeling a bit like a bad mother, I purchased my son minature weapons of destruction. This was, for the record, his first gun-like toy.
So we get home and the weapons are a huge hit, both with Kai and his father (Eric S. Nylund, also a science-fiction writer.) Eric pulled his light saber out of the closet and father and son began dueling. (Hmm? "Kai
Shortly after I took this picture I pulled my light saber out and the duel became a three-way battle. My concern about indoctrinating Kai to violence eased. Apparently we are just the kind of family where everyone has a light saber.
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When my first son was born, we vowed no play guns or weapons. Well, he was making guns out of legos and sticks at day care. I honestly think it's connected to the Y chromosome. When my daughter was born, I thought I would get some relief from the weapons. At her first Renaissance Faire, she wore her wreath of flowers and a scabbard and sword! And she definitely holds her own with her two older brothers. I must have given birth to a kick-ass heroine!
Not to add fuel to the fire, but Kai is a fantastic Jedi name.
Sandy: Sounds like!
jRoot: LOL. When my friend Duane heard what I was naming Kai, he said I'd watched too much Lexx. ;>
It's not just the y chromosome. Kate at age 1 picked up a bent stick and pronounced it to be her shooter. She had never even seen a gun on television at that age.
I was nonplussed to discover that the parents of some of my daughters' friends found super-soakers to be violent toys. Well, they are, I guess, but, sheesh.
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