When you wake up one morning and think to yourself: “I know that I have the ugliest vehicle ever rolled out onto an American road, but is there any way I can possibly make it even uglier???”
For the record, the novel is Rogue Moon by the totally forgotten Algis Budrys. I was fixated on the dumb and non-intuitive actions a protagonist had to perform to defeat a mystery alien device -not unlike stupid things that analysts need to do in order to defeat challenges when building IT systems.
Watching Trump continue to rail against losing the 2020 election, claiming he was cheated and the election was rigged, gives me some seriously strong Gondorff/Lonegan vibes from The Sting.
Is Trump so fixated he got cheated because he, in fact, was convinced he had it won because he cheated?
60 Minutes should do an in-depth investigation and report on the murder in progress of 60 Minutes.
What I missed, totally forgot about, and never made the connection of, was that this tale included the source material that Gene Roddenberry used to add transporter technology to his Star Trek universe. And Budrys answers the age-old metaphysical question about transporting a human.
Close up group photo of woke Americans in action.
Recently I got the itch to go back and reboot a reading experience that remained a waypoint in my life. This particular (dated) SciFi novel has a plot point that resonated throughout my IT career.
Turns out I spent my life having completely missed a far more revolutionary contribution to SciFi.