Rich Larson reads the opening passage of “In the Hours Preceding the Fall of Tau-Sants,” a cyberpunk-flavored short story published by the online magazine Reactor and available to read for free at reactormag.com. “In the Hours…” follows two operatives that arrive in a rain-drenched city to commission a mysterious weapon. Rich talks to Jon and Cory about:
Dropping readers into a scene “as late as possible”
Coining a phrase like “quantic canal” first for how it sounds, then reverse-engineering its meaning for the story
A bus ride in France that inspired the story's mood, before any plot existed
Working on five to seven short stories simultaneously and sometimes using a rolled die to decide which project to work on
Publishing prolifically (nearly 200 stories in the last 15 years) rather than polishing rare, perfect stories, and the peace he’s made with that tradeoff
How this story became the “test palette” for a science fiction novel set in the same universe that Rich is currently writing
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