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Dec. 20th, 2012
Is that places whose properties were mostly a matter of conjecture are turning into places for which we have maps:
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How much larger could it get before chemical rockets were insufficient to hoist payloads off the planet without impractically large mass ratios?
The next bunch will be rushed: tired and I keep somehow only being about to listen to 19 minutes of play on a 30 minute trip.
Death And The Compass
Lönnrot, a detective in the Sherlock Holmes mould, is called in to assist with a murder that would to many other eyes would merely be an attempted robbery gone wrong; Lönnrot believes there is more going on and indeed, his instinct brings him unerringly to a killer.
Hey, this Borges guy wasn't half bad.
Jorge Luis Borges
Death And The Compass
Lönnrot, a detective in the Sherlock Holmes mould, is called in to assist with a murder that would to many other eyes would merely be an attempted robbery gone wrong; Lönnrot believes there is more going on and indeed, his instinct brings him unerringly to a killer.
Hey, this Borges guy wasn't half bad.
Jorge Luis Borges
Cage of Light
A stellar explorer is put on trial to determine if he committed the greatest taboo of his service, killing aliens; explorers are expected to kill themselves to avoid this if necessary. The life forms he was to contact are gone, and he cannot explain why. Neither can he explain why his suicide packet was used without killing him.
While he is innocent of the charges, he is nevertheless inspired to go to great lengths to compensate for a deficit in himself the botched First Contact drew his attention to.
Reminded a little of "The Persistence of Vision", although the setting was nothing like that. Would have been at home in X Minus One, I think.
I didn't discover much about Gray, except that he was also involved with Nightfall.
A stellar explorer is put on trial to determine if he committed the greatest taboo of his service, killing aliens; explorers are expected to kill themselves to avoid this if necessary. The life forms he was to contact are gone, and he cannot explain why. Neither can he explain why his suicide packet was used without killing him.
While he is innocent of the charges, he is nevertheless inspired to go to great lengths to compensate for a deficit in himself the botched First Contact drew his attention to.
Reminded a little of "The Persistence of Vision", although the setting was nothing like that. Would have been at home in X Minus One, I think.
I didn't discover much about Gray, except that he was also involved with Nightfall.
The Bailiff and the Women
An officious bureaucrat learns how much his services are appreciated. Inexplicably, his attempts to save the State money turn out to have negative consequences for his clients; more inexplicably even though he was just following orders, he is held to have some moral responsibility for his actions.
Meh. Not the ideas, the execution.
Another author I could not find out much about.
An officious bureaucrat learns how much his services are appreciated. Inexplicably, his attempts to save the State money turn out to have negative consequences for his clients; more inexplicably even though he was just following orders, he is held to have some moral responsibility for his actions.
Meh. Not the ideas, the execution.
Another author I could not find out much about.