Because My Tears Are Delicious to You 23: The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge, which I've wanted to find time to reread since the SFBC's run-up to their 50th anniversary.

Context is for the weak

Because it turned out at some point Ibid got to the electric blanket's cord and chewed on it

A touch of winter but no electric blanket for James. Instead, I thought I would experiment with pajamas, since I have owned the same set since the 1970s (not wearing them often has extended their life). I was aware Groucho tends to react very badly to change so was a little nervous.

Turns out he wasn't the problem. A large cat who was convinced if he just pushed hard enough he could sleep inside my pajama leg was.

More possible review series

Beloved Classics That Make Modern Readers Say "What the Helling Hell, Old Time SF Fans?"

SF Books She Wrote and He Took the Credit For.

Hard SF Ain't Nothing But Nonsense Misspelled

Then, The Author Went Mad But Didn't Stop Writing

You Have To Understand, The Bar Was Lower Back Then

"Virgin Galactic's new spacecraft ready next year despite crash"

Virgin Galactic could have a new spacecraft ready to fly by next year, the chief executive of Richard Branson's space tourism company said in an interview published on Sunday, reacting to concerns about the safety of technology used in the Virgin craft that crashed last week

You know what's useless

Trying to remember the name of a singer with only "40 years ago, there was a local store with the same name" as a clue.

(Valdy)

Chinese Unmanned Lunar Orbiter Returns Home Safely

A Chinese robotic probe has just successfully completed the first round trip to the Moon and back home in four decades that paves the path for China’s next great space leap forward – an ambitious mission to return samples from the lunar surface later this decade.