So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I want my mummy.
I'm not nearly to the climax of The Wounded Sky, but whenever I get to the point where K't'lk sings the new universe into existence (shades of Tolkien's Ainulindalë), the music I hear in my mind is the finale from Stravinsky's Firebird.
And I've probably said this a dozen times before.
And I've probably said this a dozen times before.
This must be the first time I've read The Wounded Sky since DSC premiered: the Spore Drive seems a lot like the Inversion Drive.
Then again, the environment where the crew finds themselves when they travel to the core of the anomaly also manages to anticipate the Realm of the Prophets.
Then again, the environment where the crew finds themselves when they travel to the core of the anomaly also manages to anticipate the Realm of the Prophets.
Spore drive always reminded me more of slipstream drive from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, in that it involved traveling along a network of threads in an alternate space and had no correlation between real-space distance and travel time.
Never had any contact with Andromeda, so I wouldn't know.
The similarities I see have to do with spore jumps being instantaneous, and being unsettling for the inexperienced. And on the previously unprecedented "black alert": the Enterprise went to red alert prior to any inversion jump.
The similarities I see have to do with spore jumps being instantaneous, and being unsettling for the inexperienced. And on the previously unprecedented "black alert": the Enterprise went to red alert prior to any inversion jump.
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I finished a reread of Star Trek: Wildfire by David Mack. It holds up quite well today, especially for someone so early in their Trek writing career. I appreciate that there was so much that was true to the ideals of Star Trek in this story, even amid so much death and destruction. That last chapter is still a gut punch.
Last night, I wanted something rather short, so I re-read a children's novella, Call Me Bandicoot, by William Pène du Bois. I'd first encountered it when it was first published (1970), and serialized in Children's Digest. (my mother had given me a year of it, even though I'd have been happier with Popular Science, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was actually worth reading, particularly for the serialized novella).
It's about a greedy, weasely kid who ekes out a living on the Staten Island Ferry, telling tall tales, and there's a twist ending to the general effect that he's not as greedy as other members of his family.
Pène du Bois had set out to write a series of books on the Seven Deadly Sins, but only got through four: Sloth (Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead), "vanity" (pride? Pretty Pretty Peggy Moffitt), gluttony (Porko Von Popbutton), and "stinginess" (greed, the present opus). I can only imagine that he realized the nearly insurmountable challenge of writing a children's book about lust, when he abandoned the project.
It's about a greedy, weasely kid who ekes out a living on the Staten Island Ferry, telling tall tales, and there's a twist ending to the general effect that he's not as greedy as other members of his family.
Pène du Bois had set out to write a series of books on the Seven Deadly Sins, but only got through four: Sloth (Lazy Tommy Pumpkinhead), "vanity" (pride? Pretty Pretty Peggy Moffitt), gluttony (Porko Von Popbutton), and "stinginess" (greed, the present opus). I can only imagine that he realized the nearly insurmountable challenge of writing a children's book about lust, when he abandoned the project.
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Just started on re-reading The Rolling Stones. As in Heinlein, not as in Jagger or Wenner.
The Stones haven't left the Moon yet, but Roger Stone has just bought a new family spaceship.
The Stones haven't left the Moon yet, but Roger Stone has just bought a new family spaceship.
Had to look this up to find out that this is the same novel I know as "Space Family Stone". Absolutely loved this book as a child and have continued to like it as an adult.
In a 1969 edition, apparently. I wonder if that was an attempt to capitalize on the Space Family Robinson comics, and on Lost in Space, which would've been called Space Family Robinson if Gold Key hadn't beaten them to it.
It was serialized in Boys' Life under another alternate title (Tramp Space Ship), and I believe the UK publication was under one or the other alternate title.
The first time I'd read it, I'd already read Stranger in a Strange Land. This was much less challenging.
The first time I'd read it, I'd already read Stranger in a Strange Land. This was much less challenging.
Do you have a phone or tablet you can read it on? Lately the majority of my comics reading has been through Hoopla on my tablet and it works great. You can set it for one page full screen, and it's in terms of size, clarity, and ease of use, it's not that far off from reading a physical comic.
Why is this still being debated? I decided I'd rather read the print comic, so I got the print comic from the library. That was three weeks ago. Problem solved.
If anything, it would've been harder to read on a phone or tablet, since their screens are smaller than my desktop screen. I don't see the advantage.
Is someone trying to be helpful in case a problem recurs a "debate"?
(I like reading comics on a tablet better than a computer screen because your tablet can easily be turned into portrait orientation, unlike your computer screen. My Kindle Fire's display is only marginally smaller than a physical comic.)
The point is, I already found the best solution: get it in print. As I explained before, I could have read it digitally if I'd had to, but since I didn't have to, I preferred to read it in print, because that's more comfortable and natural. Maybe, if I had a tablet equal to or greater in size than a print comic book page, I would find that a satisfactory equivalent, but I don't. And I'd still see it as a substitute for the real thing.
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