Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.The ad he placed read:
WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. SAFETY NOT GUARANTEEDI thought of that movie as I saw this interesting ad in Smithsonian Magazine:
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Of course I popped over to the web site, and here's what it says:
It's an entertaining, if laborious, site to read. Perhaps I should offer a reward to anyone who can explain the following, from the Foreword page:
Gravity is not circling the planets around the sun's equator from the disproved quantum gravity hypothesis.Conclusion:
Safety Not Guaranteed was much better.
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You must, of course, have read, Glory Road, by Heinlein, which begins with a similar trope.
Having never commented here before, though I read you regularly, let me, add...thanks.
Actually, I think the only Heinlein I've ever read was Stranger In A Strange Land, which went completely over my head.
Thanks for dropping by!
cool beans yo
Darren, Heinlein's juveniles are great, too (Space Cadet, Red Planet, Between Planets, ...). *I* think they hold up well and still enjoy re-reading them as an adult.
On the subject of "AP Theory" .... sigh. They even have a new approach to Chemistry: "The AP theory predicts a gas 'X' with an atomic weight of 0.689 will be discovered beyond the heliopause." An atomic weight of less than 1.0 is quite a trick, since 1.0 would be a nucleus with one proton and no electrons. Partial protons is quite some trick!
-Mark Roulo
I just finished "Long Earth" by Terry Pratchett-the originator of DiscWorld. It's an intriguing thought of endless earths. Plus "Step Day" was supposed to be in 2015.
Martian Chronicle
Good Omens
The Gods Themselves
Stranger in a Strange Land
And generally anything by Heinlein are all good bets.
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