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2012-10-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2012-10-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I don't know about you, but I'm waiting for an Earth-like planet with six suns, and at least one moon.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2012-10-17 00:04|| 2012-10-17 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 I believe the book Nightfall was about a planet (and civilization) with no less than 6 suns.

Posted by CrazyFool 2012-10-17 00:39|| 2012-10-17 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Keeping track of Daylight Saving Time must be a bitch.

Posted by SteveS 2012-10-17 01:17|| 2012-10-17 01:17|| Front Page Top

#4 CrazyFool yeah, excellent book, turns out the planet was in the middle of a massive star cluster.

Posted by Shipman 2012-10-17 04:38|| 2012-10-17 04:38|| Front Page Top

#5 "Nightfall" was a book? Oh, in the way that the extended director['s cut of a movie can triple its length.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2012-10-17 06:26|| 2012-10-17 06:26|| Front Page Top

#6 ...evolve in these dynamically challenging environments.

Ripped off from someone's H.R. department?

Posted by Raj 2012-10-17 11:06|| 2012-10-17 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Eric now that I think about it, more a long-short story or novella, the sequel was a full-blown novel and sucked.

Posted by Shipman 2012-10-17 16:19|| 2012-10-17 16:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Both Asimov and Heinlein's last few novels were self-indulgent messes. The short story "Nightfall" is the version I choose to remember.

And then Asimov started sharecropping. That was sad.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2012-10-17 20:38|| 2012-10-17 20:38|| Front Page Top

#9 And then Asimov started sharecropping. That was sad.
Nowadays there are websites for the fanfics. In the old days kind authors found an editor to put out cheap paperbacks for the best of the over-the-transom stuff to encourage the youngsters.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-10-17 21:19|| 2012-10-17 21:19|| Front Page Top

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