To boldly got where Anne Hathaway has gone before

[sleepy]

i think I'll space out now.
Among my many degradations in my life is the fact that my clandestine family continues to provide a home by laundering their funds through the Gollywood Section 8 program, but deny needed medical and dental as 'a leverage...I think I hate them.

So Steven S. sends Colin Farell as my Inspector. and Colin Fails My Ass Every Fucking Time. I washed the floor 9 Times today because I Knew Colin was coming. And he did. Colin told me that 'I needed to clean more'. That was his idea of a joke...and then he failed me. I ended up arguing with him. He said he was the boss, so he didn't have to inspect Everything. He decided that he will be coming back. Honest to God, I don't know how that man finds work...

But the money laundering through government welfare programs has it's advantages. When I invented the EBT Card, they put me on Food Stamps as a stipend, back when my Crichton book and movie was chewing up the box office. DNA...

Wouldn't you think that laundering wealth through welfare programs would be Illegal???
Yeah. I dunno...

 

[sleepy]

Get These Fucking Billionaire Leaches Off Of Me!

 

[GSGregg]

But I'm still gonna give the Pandora one a shot!

If Pandora's is anything like the Nights Dawn books, it'll stand alone very well, leaving you wanting more, rather than feeling you're missing something.

Just in case you're curious (please say you are), my all-time favorites are:

-The Mote in God's Eye (Niven & Pournelle 1974---I've read it only four times)
-Artifact (Benford 1985---Subatomic particles amock)
-The World is Round (Tony Rothman 1978---it's also BIG!)
-Between the Strokes of Night (Sheffield 1985)
-Heart of the Comet (Benford / Brin 1986)
-Stranger In a Strange Land (Heinlein 1961---I picture the Jubal Harshaw character being played by a cross between William Conrad and Ed Asner)
-The Past Through Tomorrow (Heinlein 1973---the lives of Lazarus Long)

The list used to be a bit longer, but geriatricity beckons.....

Add Heinlein's The Past Through Tomorrow ("Future History' collection) and Niven's Known Space series, including the Ringworld novels, and you'll know what I did between guitar-string changes for thirty years plus.

 

[Coil_Smoke]

If Pandora's is anything like the Nights Dawn books, it'll stand alone very well, leaving you wanting more, rather than feeling you're missing something.

Just in case you're curious (please say you are), my all-time favorites are:

-The Mote in God's Eye (Niven & Pournelle 1974---I've read it only four times)
-Artifact (Benford 1985---Subatomic particles amock)
-The World is Round (Tony Rothman 1978---it's also BIG!)
-Between the Strokes of Night (Sheffield 1985)
-Heart of the Comet (Benford / Brin 1986)
-Stranger In a Strange Land (Heinlein 1961---I picture the Jubal Harshaw character being played by a cross between William Conrad and Ed Asner)
-The Past Through Tomorrow (Heinlein 1973---the lives of Lazarus Long)

The list used to be a bit longer, but geriatricity beckons.....

Add Heinlein's The Past Through Tomorrow ("Future History' collection) and Niven's Known Space series, including the Ringworld novels, and you'll know what I did between guitar-string changes for thirty years plus.

I feel edified just by reading your post...

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

btw returning to the OP, i installed an android game a few days ago called "interstellar," tried it yesterday, and realised in fact it's the official game tying in to the movie.

anyway, it seems to involve a lot of fiddling around in star systems trying to get your spaceship to pick up energy, orbit planets and avoid crashing. i'll give it a second chance, prolly... dunno what i'm doing so far.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paramount.interstellar&hl=en

(couldn't find it in the apple store, sorry)

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Oh, I went through my Heinlein period in my late teens! I always thought Job: A Comedy of Justice was way underrated! I tried Niven's Lucifer's Hammer when I was probably about 13, but it was tough sledding for me. Hell, I could barely wrap my head around the Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" episode at the time! I'd like to give that book another shot. Wonder if that old '70s relic is still lying around out there.

@nic: yeah, flying in a spaceship and dicking around... that sounds a lot like Interstellar!

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

Oh, I went through my Heinlein period in my late teens! I always thought Job: A Comedy of Justice was way underrated! I tried Niven's Lucifer's Hammer when I was probably about 13, but it was tough sledding for me. Hell, I could barely wrap my head around the Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" episode at the time! I'd like to give that book another shot. Wonder if that old '70s relic is still lying around out there.

@nic: yeah, flying in a spaceship and dicking around... that sounds a lot like Interstellar!

godammit bill and all you other pathetic mofos-- you are obviously horrible people and need to stand a very long time in line for my forgiveness.

i know what you're whispering, tho... "our religion is already a big bag of donkey manure as it is-- so maybe like this is our last chance, dude!?... or maybe not??"

the answer as always is "fuck you... eddie!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmhXAyI2e8U

 

[LeeVanCleef]

I'm proud of myself! I made it through ten whole seconds of that video!

 

[sleepy]

Please forgive me, but why does that tune remind me of "The Love Boat"?
Do you see Capt. Stubing?

 

[sleepy]

I got it. It's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon".

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

errp... as in wyatt erpp.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Well, Gregg, I'm about halfway through the Commonwealth Saga's Pandora's Star and, I must say, this is the most fascinating genre book I've read in a long time! The author has meticulously created the universe of his future Earth in amazing detail, yet without being boring. Technology, anthropology, sociology... there's room for all of them in this bad boy! And, at the same time, the writing and plotting hold up very well... factors that rarely all work together in most SciFi novels. I think this one bears sharing. The only copy I can find is the one that contains both novels which means, were it in physical form, it'd be about the size of the New York phone book. But well worth the read!

 

[GSGregg]

I'm pleased that you are pleased! :D

The placement of my bookmark in Pandora's Star (actually, the Barnes & Noble receipt for the book's 12-3-05 purchase) indicates that I made it to page 155 before my reading insatiability waned. Having just cheated a bit by accessing the Wikipedia article on The Commonwealth Saga, I know why the word 'trilogy' was nagging me; the book, Misspent Youth (2002) took place 300 years before P-Star, focusing on the first human to undergo Rejuvenation and containing the groundwork for the Commonwealth universe. Maybe I should pick that one up in case I again become a 'real' reader.

There are three "Void' novels and a few other works which are also set in the Commonwealth u-verse. So much to read, but so little time.....especially when he writes in kilopages!

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Yeah, after you wrote that "Pandora" was the second book in the trilogy (and probably after I was about 6 hours into the audiobook) I thought it best to rush off and try to find the first book. Luckily, it doesn't seem to hold a direct thread to this story, but takes place in the same universe. And it taught me a valuable lesson that I should read posts more carefully! I've already got Judas Unchained lined up on the Ipod. I really dig a good, long audiobook that I can get involved in and, man, do these fit the bill! They're, like, 35 hours a shot! But with a series this good, the time passes very quickly!