The tip-of-my-tounge memory of this show has been rattling around in my head for years, and finally the internet helped me figure out that the show I remembered was Jason of Star Command
After having watched how unkind blu-ray was to the original first Star Wars, over the weekend, I’m not sure I’m ready to have my childhood illusions about how cool this show’s effects were, equally shattered. Or maybe it’ll engender warm fuzzy feelings for the fantasy acceptance of youth.
The first time I tried to read this book, I nearly burnt down a motel in New Zealand, because I was so into reading the book, I didn’t notice a fire on the stove until my Dad came into the kitchen yelling at me (and taking away the book).
I am quite certain I did eventually finish it, though I don’t remember when.
This time reading through, I’m noticing a few things I didn’t think about before, like how much of a ‘sci-fi’ novel is really just a historical military fiction, set in a far away place, but otherwise basically low-tech. The other part that’s standing out is an assertion near the end, wherein the authors basically say that the end of the age of slavery had more to do with the technology of the horse collar, than it did with any societal change of heart over the treatment of fellow mankind.
That and I really need to get around to reading the mainline of the Moties books.
I’m at home, packing and waiting for word that everything is done and recorded, and I notice that SyFy has an OST movie marathon on, so it’s been going in the background as I do stuff. Khan was on, and as it was ending on it’s sappy moment, I’m thinking to myself, well, at least I’ll get Christopher Llyod’s klingon, but then I notice that they are skipping 3 and going straight on to 4, my fave OST movie. It’s nice to see recognition that 3 was really a place holder movie.
A researcher has ‘conceptually designed’ (whatever that means), a compressed air powered motorcycle. I don’t remember which author came up with it, but some sci-fi author I’ve read before had an idea for using air compressed to near-degenerate matter, as fuel for surface-to-orbit shuttles, to avoid polluting the atmosphere.
Finally found the right search terms to find another childhood book series I only half remembered. Turns out it was “Danny Dunn“. I could really only remember two stories’ plots, and that only pieces. One was a robot dragonfly, and the other was a cold ray that they used to cause rain, IIRC. I was about ready to spend an askme, but for once, there really was a previous question that applied to my current question, and the answer was revealed.
happy happy, joy joy