This one left me in a state of palpable depression.
Though it's only the end if you don't count Eoin Colfer's authorized continuation, And Another Thing..., which I thought did a decent job capturing the feel of Adams's works (and rectified a few things I thought went wonky toward the end).
@tbweber@bookstodon@bookstadon I will be starting on And Another Thing if only just because this ending is so sad... I remember vaguely (it's been a while) that I had found the book to be not bad, but I did miss Adam's writing. At least reading that book would probably at least make me feel better than I felt while finishing Mostly Harmless. I wish there were more Hitchhiker's books by Douglas Adams.
"The Verbenubi are super excitable. They tend to love… everything, and with some passion. Show them a new rock, and they will talk about the new rock for hours. They just like stuff."
"All of the Verbenubi serving aboard the Jupiter’s Ghost strongly embrace their identity as Nerds."
"There are several Verbenubi working in engineering, and they often spew streams of technobable as if it was actually science."
I've been working my way through James Blish's 4part 'space opera' Cities in Flight (1970/1999) & while clearly dated in some aspects (not least its male-centricity) & not wearing its science lightly, at its centre are two interesting elements; the wandering anti-gravity power 'okie' city in space & the going end of all time. Its also been clearly influential on later large scale #scifi but for me too dependent on its characters' lives @bookstodon
"Three astronauts are mysteriously transported to an alien world where they uncover artifacts of an ancient, yet advanced civilization. They must sift through the ruins to assemble technology to take them home."
This nice adventure game in space is available on Gog & Steam. #scifi#game#lucasarts
Another post about this cool book I'm currently reading: "The Sol Majestic" by Ferrett Steinmetz. Gotta love that name.
Have you ever wondered how a top-rated restaurant might function on a space station? Light years from any planet? Well, Ferrett Steinmetz thought about it and came up with:
-artificial gravity used to cook things using the heat generated by enormous planetary-scale pressures instead of direct heat
-stasis fields instead of fridges (duh) but also speeded-up time field used to sneak a week's worth of work into an hour
-an alien sourdough culture that MIGHT be sentient
All of this is an excellent backdrop for a story of a young boy finding (gay) love, seeking independence from his parents, and exploring questions of philosophy, truth, capitalism, and marketing. It's not #SolarPunk, but it has that homey vibe.
Okay so NOW this FREE cyberpunk collection (which is so old you can see on the cover that it was only $3.50 for a paperback copy), is available as an #ebook download (FREE, I said!) as well as just opening it to read on your device. If you want it in that format, you can go there and try out the two ebook download systems it's offered on, let me know if it's not working.
If you're interested in academic discourse regarding interstellar travel, you should check out the I4S quarterly newsletter. It's free, and the digest is really worth checking out.
Their summary of the upcoming paper “Development of a Model Framework for Examining Language and Cultural Issues in Human Starfaring Civilizations” was really thought-provoking.