Andro 2033

martino · Post by **martino** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 8:30 am

yeah very good, i like that one, mcc.

max is a swell name, rather posh & upper-crust here in germany, king maximilian was one of these crazy bavarian guys and lotsa private schools are named after him. (for me, maxwell used to be the name of that spy who talked into his shoe but that is a goner, i guess)

tiny is a fascinating creature. since max is supposed to be a loner i am not quite sure about the merits of a side kick but tiny is freaky and nice. what about the literary precedents of side-kickism? there was ginger man sebastian dangerfield's sidekick kenneth o'keefe, but i am not aware of any others -- unless you include fatso talkshow star andy richter, which i hope you don't.

about the end: well i am all for the bad guy / nark being gay, but isn't that terribly anti-PC?

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well, it seems this story idea has legs. hell, it may even turn into one of those projects you simply have to undertake if you don't want it to nag at you for the rest of your life, feeling like stones in your pockets. i will be spending a few days in library, researching whether there really is no similar story around -- don't want to be accused of plagiarism. and then i will go out and purchase a ticket to the west coast for sometime in may.

i have personal business that calls for my attention in Eugene and business business in San Fran, and i think it would be worth the effort to drive up and try to persuade you to write this story with me, mcc. and even if it didn't work out i find the idea of getting drunk in seattle pretty damn attractive, especially in light of how rosie and ooh have described it.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 3:12 pm

Come to Seattle and we can try to bang it out. I got a couple script writers software-shit almost writes itself. With your smarts and my imagination we could be good to go. Eugene is very close to Seattle, by world standards. I'll be at sea for a few weeks in May. When are you coming? And is this a put on? Gettin' back at me for making you think Jack was coming out of closet and addiction hell.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 3:17 pm

As for Tiny don't dissmiss yet. If you follow Star Wars- Joesph Campbell (and ya have to) the hero has a call to adventure, and then needs helpers along the way, even the loner heros. Tiny and Pervert are just another 3CPO and R2-D2.

martino · Post by **martino** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 4:42 pm

pretty fucking far from a put on, mcc. tell me when you'll be back from your holiday cruise and i'll try to arrange it accordingly. and thanks for the super kind invitation.

i wouldn't have much time to stay in seattle but it would be good for a start. most of the writing to be done by email, i would think.

the point is, i do have to stick to my principles, one of which is: before starting a new business venture, make sure all parties are good for getting drunk with. old irish rule, has served me well to date.

by the way, i certainly haven't dismissed the tiny pervert thingy; i'll think about it. thanks for the continuous contributions.

Post by **mccutcheon** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 4:55 pm

"I can drink like a God."- Liam Gallagher.

"I can drink Liam under the table."- McCutcheon

I'm back May 15th.

martino · Post by **martino** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 5:17 pm

okie dokie.

"kampftrinken!" (german for, drinking as a martial art)

Post by **mccutcheon** » Wed Apr 24, 2002 5:47 pm

Opps I must have been drunk when I posted that. I'm back May 20th.

martino · Post by **martino** » Thu Apr 25, 2002 11:06 am

got it.

btw, you got access to email while you're on the dream boat?

martino · Post by **martino** » Fri May 31, 2002 11:03 am

Daily wrote:
"Hey has anyone ever read "Tek War" by William Shatner? All joking aside, he paints an interesting vision of the future that this sorta reminds me of. Everyone loves the drug "Tek" and I believe it's even a suitcase shaped contraption. I might be wrong though, I read it 10 years ago or so."

Daily, I just finished reading Tek Kill, which is also from Shatner's Tek series. Thanks very much for pointing me to it. I really do appreciate your mentioning it and I say this without any irony.

Tek Kill is, however, a lousy book! You'd think Shatner could be content with being a successful TV actor but no, he has to go out and write not one, but a whole line of preposterous books.

It's just like some 1960s TV detective series transported into the distant future, with added laser guns and flying saucer cars. A whole lot of zap and bang and boom but not much more.

Worst of all, Shatner doesn't know shit about drugs. Tek is a kinda universal drug machine that makes you feel good and have nice day dreams, with the obligatory side effect that it is addictive and you get bad hangovers and have psycho-deranged fantasies at select moments, weeks later.

If this is the future, I'm all for living in the present!

Immensely better is what I have just started reading for research purposes, the multiple-award-winning "The Left Hand of Darkness", by Ursula Le Guin.

This book is about a foreign world in which most people are androgynous, or something pretty close to that.

"They are not neuters. They are potentials; during each sexual cycle they develop in either direction for the duration of that cycle. No physiological habit is established, and the mother of several children may be the father of several more". Heavy stuff indeed, and very satisfying.

Mc: the good news of the day for me is that I have found a client who will be paying for my flight, albeit cheap-ass class, but what the hell. Looks like I'll could make it around June 14 but I will contact you as soon as I know more, which will take yet another two days or so. Sorry for the delay.

Post by **Sloth** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 12:08 am

Martino, Daily,

Why would someone as intelligent as you folk read a book by William Shatner?

Martino, I know America stole all your astrophysicists but c'mon that was 70 years ago. Daily, down in Houston we have a problem because there are 1.5 million Issac Asimov books that have to be better than Tek Wars.

And the worst part is I've just written a science fiction piece, posted it in this forum, and I get nothing from you two. Don't tell me you like like William Shatner better than me? I am younger, more relevant and don't wear a hairpiece yet.

And I promise I will never, ever, act in a bad TV cop series...

Daily Taylor · Post by **Daily Taylor** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 4:32 am

Well like I said, I read it either in Jr. High or early High School. Back then the Hardy Boys Casefiles were still pretty fun books to read. So, sorry to point you to a lame book. I read it before I had done any drugs myself, so I wouldn't have known the difference.

Ooh, I'm about to read that story right now. I had no idea it was there, homes.

martino · Post by **martino** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 1:11 pm

you sure that's not a hairpiece you're wearing ooh?

as re: Tek *.*: i read all kinda shit, why not shatner too?

as re: your story: sorry for overlooking it, will read now and comment soon!

Post by **Sloth** » Sat Jun 01, 2002 3:24 pm

No hair piece yet.

Still got another 20 years or so.

And if I need one, then I can always transplant all my ass hair, cause I got too much of that anyway...

<sarah> · Post by **<sarah>** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 4:43 am

well, I tried to log in and post this, but I couldn't because I am a moron who can't remember her old password, but here it is under a sci-fi topic, and it's not sci-fi.

Last summer I tried sci-fi or something like it with Faranheit 451, 1984, and The Giver. Sort of bleak and depressing; doesn't exactly go well with coconut oil or my yellow plastic beach bag, which still has banana boat from last year in it and The Fountainhead, which was too thick and daunting for me to attempt. I'm staring at it right now thinking, I'm not going to read that fucking book; it looks like work.

I need a good book!!

<Brett> · Post by **<Brett>** » Fri Jun 07, 2002 4:17 pm

Sarah, Try 'Armadillo' by William Boyd, 'Motherless Brooklyn' by Jonathan Lethem or 'The Far Pavillion' by M.M. Kaye. All great summer reading. You want something cool and new agey? Try 'Dreamwalker' by Hank Wesselman. Don't know much about Sci-Fi. They always paint such a bleak picture. Why can't the sun ever shine in the future? How did the Margarita become extinct? Did the warm waters of the Caribbean suddenly vanish 30 years from now? Stupid flying cars.