I don't read a huge amount of sci-fi but really enjoyed this one! An odyssey into far flung parts of space. Good characters, excellent writing and interesting mysteries. And I REALLY wasn't expecting the elephants... 🐘🪐📚💙
💬 I already cannot cope with the volume of messages in Discord/Forums, which I now only very, very lightly use.
So I do not see myself using group chats here 🦋 either 🤷♂️
🎸 Watching the Andertons boys riff-out to tunes from the 80s and 00s was a lot of fun.
I wish I had some of those riffs up my sleeve, particularly “Mr Scary” as I love me some 80s hair metal.
At one point they started riffing together, which brought me a grin and cheers from the studio audience 👏😁
🚀 Went to try the new #Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions in Xbox Game Preview, which has a ~2h demo. But I’d forgotten that being an online game it needs a subscription to access. Since I don’t have one I uninstalled it instead.
Oh well.
I was curious as I enjoy #Astroneer.
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
On SpaceX's IPO day I'd like to remind folks that @zachweinersmith.bsky.social & I wrote "A City on Mars"* abt the problems & perils of settling Mars. A million people on Mars can't safely be done in Musk's lifetime.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639449...
*Hugo & Royal Society Book Prize winner
🎧 The one where @benjicong.bsky.social reckons “the blood and gore looked great” @alexsurvives.bsky.social was “an old grump through the whole thing,” and @scowlerwilson.bsky.social mixes up girl bands, hasn’t played GoW and would use two Switches to play a co-op game! 😆
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #Podcasts 📻
🌔 Realising I don’t have online access, I wondered what would happen if I fired up #Destiny2. I know it has or is about to expire, but I haven’t played it in absolute yonks.
Still works, looks glorious, but I’m never going to play it. And it’s consuming 167.3GB of disc space 🫢 🚮
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️
📚 I’ve got and have read the “Central Corps” trilogy in their original trad-pub editions, despite some being doomed 👇😝
No idea anymore how I first came upon them 🤷♂️ but I read them way back in 2018 🤓
📚🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋