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Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series. Either the 2nd or 3rd book I believe? They're all fairly short, I bought ultimate edition on Amazon and get all like 5 of them together.
Edit: for everyone asking, here's the book I got
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345453743/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_8nOngEkZkw2tO
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - i no longer takes my problem too seriously after reading this
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The End of Procrastination - it really helps to put your life in order
In the (wonderful) novel The Postmortal the cure for aging and most disease is discovered... right around now.
Civilization as we know it doesn't make it to 2100.
As far as the immortality story is important to your world building you should give it a read (Also because I love the book and recommend it whenever possible)
> "Quality" means nothing without privacy and comfort. > > This just feels like separating the rich from the poor even further.
Indeed, just take a standard dystopian sci-fi book and you will notice the poor people living in a container.
Have a little ambition, please.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy includes all 5 that were written by Douglas Adams. The one I have on my shelf has a different cover than what Amazon currently shows, but it looks like it's all there. There is another Hitchhiker's book by Eoin Colfer working on Douglas Adams' notes called And Another Thing... you might also want to check out. Though you're probably better off switching to Dirk Gently before you get to that one.
If they're talking like that because George was trying to be shakespearean, then shouldn't he at least have made an effort to write the dialogue in iambic pentameter?
Way to be a lazy ass, Lucas. Ian Doescher had to pick up the slack for you.
Nobody knows.. but here’s a MUST READ book where the author takes a good stab at a guess. Postmortal
One thing I really liked about the future with Postmortal humans is the idea of real life Trolls. They paint themselves green and wreak havoc on the immortals. Oh you just got the cure for mortality? Well they throw acid in your eyes and now you’re blind while you live for ever.
That’s just one example. Don’t wanna spoil it all. This book really is an easy and amazing read, highly advise.
"Hey," Watney said over the radio, "I've got an idea."
"Of course you do," Lewis said. "What do you got?"
"I could find something sharp in here and poke a hole in the glove of my EVA suit. I could use the escaping air as a thruster and fly my way to you. The source of the thrust would be on my arm, so I'd be able to direct it pretty easily."
"How does he come up with this shit?" Martinez interjected.
"Hmm," Lewis said. "Could you get forty-two meters per second that way?"
"No idea."
"I can't see you having any control if you did that," Lewis said. "You'd be eyeballing the intercept and using a thrust vector you can barely control."
"I admit it's fatally dangerous," Watney said. "But consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man."
"We'll keep working on ideas," Lewis said.
"Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man."
- Andy Weir, '<em>The Martian</em>'
The last one is actually a short story called The Egg by Andy Weir. He's a really talented artist and you should check out his novel, The Martian, which is being adapted into a movie to be released in November.
I read a book recently with a similar premise, it's called "Year Zero."
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Zero-Novel-Rob-Reid/dp/0345534514
Essentially music is the highest form of art in the galaxy, and humans happen to be orders of magnitude better at it than anyone else.
But that one is comedy. I really like the addictive angle in your story.
The audible link given doesn't show sample pages, so here's some: https://www.amazon.com/William-Shakespeares-Star-Wars-Doescher/dp/1594746370
In short: Shakespearean language. It's pretty great, I have a copy.
I can’t believe nobody has suggested this yet: The Martian, by Andy Weir. (It’s the book that the movie was based on.) This book is just such a great read!! I had already seen the movie, and still loved the book. Exciting, adventuresome, survival against all odds, funny (the main character is a smart-ass), lots of interesting problem-solving. A rollicking read.
Also: The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter. A little boy goes to live with his Cherokee grandparents in the Appalachian mountains after his parents die. It is just such a beautiful story. Adventures, hilarity, learning to live off the land / live with the land, and some deep heartbreak, but so worth the read (or listen). The audiobook narration by Johnny Heller is perfect. This is one of those books i wish everyone would read, and it sounds like your bf might groove on it (mountains! Nature! Outdoors! Dogs! Self-sufficiency! Bootlegging, even! Lol). Highly recommend the audiobook.
It’s the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
For more insights, I would recommend picking up a (really) good book:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy https://amazon.com/dp/0345391802/
Ref your edit Something else I was going to pick up on but distracted from the argument - is Batteries.
Elon might be 'good' at batteries, and they are a fairly efficient way of directly storing electrical energy, but but they sure are heavy. Transporting batteries to Mars takes a lot of payload.
Storing gasses however...... There's an electicity-to-gas production facility that is an essential part of the mission - and storage tanks - well we sure brought a couple of big ones of those. Even small tanks as cargo are fairly light-weight (and space-efficient if you can store something in them for the journey).
Try reading The Martian. Its not bad. Better than the film.
and I assume you also use the amazon.com marketplace on audible? (ie audible.com and US dollars). If that's true I would guess your settings are set up for amazon.com kindle books too, if you can buy kindle books on .com and use the whispersync feature (again it would charge you in USD).
An easy way to check is to go to amazon.ca and see if you are able to buy a kindle book. My guess is, it wont let you and say you have to go to amazon.com (obviously unless you have been changing your country settings recently).
Because yes, I am very sure that it doesnt work with an amazon.ca account. The audible.ca rep I spoke to said as much... although I guess they dont always give customers the right information.
What I found out is you can change your country settings for Kindle though, in your amazon account management. And so I just had to give it a US address and it transferred my books over without issue. And because I already had the book on audible.com (I assume) whispersync started working. In the future if I want to use whispersync I will just switch my country back to Canada to buy the kindle ebook (so I pay CAD with no conversion fees) and then switch back to use whispersync. Unfortunately I think I would be stuck paying USD on audible though, from what I can tell.
Hopefully they do implement whispersync in canada, I think its a good feature and definitely a reason for me to buy kindle ebooks over kobo. But to be honest, unless its a quality narrator/cast for the audio book, with all the hassle that it took me I will probably just stick to ebooks and using my iphone's screen reading ability to read the book to me. Its not as good as an audio book but its a lot less hassle. Until they bring the whispersync feature to canada properly anyway.
I don't think you can--it's protected by Google's DRM. You can read them through the Play Books app.
Or you could just buy the book from Amazon for the same price: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EMXBDMA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_cqltBbNV7QGQ8
Deal link: Amazon
^^Note: ^^The ^^deal ^^may ^^have ^^expired ^^by ^^the ^^time ^^you ^^see ^^this ^^post.
You've got some crazy ideas in there. I like it.
My biggest suggestion, though, is to "show, don't tell." For example, in the first paragraph from "A few days ago" to "probably already noticed," that's interesting stuff that deserves more than dull exposition. Don't trap us into your main character's head with only his reactions to things - try putting the astronomer into a conversation with a disbelieving NASA official, and reveal the information that way.
I think that right now it reads as a story about a story, because you're describing the action instead of showing it, and that means that when you break the fourth wall it seems like you're commenting on your own story instead of the events going on in it. Put us more into the action and then the story's self-awareness might work better.
You have a lot of material packed into only about a page's worth, so it's difficult for me to get a feel for how the story will develop. I can't really say what's "good" about it yet!
My recommendation is that you read Chapter 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, about Arthur Dent's house about to be knocked down. (Amazon has most of that chapter readable: https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345391802) Note that the author takes his time and develops the absurd scene with lots of details. Each of your paragraphs could be developed into a chapter like this.
Could it be Year Zero, by Rob Reid?
>Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), resulting in the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang and bankrupting the whole universe.
There are a few different printings of the full series.
Here's a link to the first one I found on Amazon The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ready Player One It takes place in a bunch of places, but it's fast-paced and lots of fun.
There's a whole series of books retelling the saga in Shakespearean style.
It was one of the first books I read in a long time, and instantly got me hooked on reading again.
Basically they find a cure for immortality. You can still die by wounds etc. Goes throughout time following one character, very interesting.
Favorite Book (and soon to be movie): Ready Player One - this book took me on an absolute ride and I don't even like reading books. Video game references galore are in here - this book made me want to live in the OASIS. (except, not the actual real-life world in the book)
Link to the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/0307887448
Thank you for the giveaway!
Merry Chrimbus.
Ah ok, isso diz que tem uma oferta nova. Na oferta de capa comum tá escrito 2 novos porque tem duas lojas vendendo. Aqui tem um exemplo onde tá escrito somente 1 em estoque no lado direito. Não compro aqui porque não é direto com a Amazon e não encontrei anda sobre essa loja além do Reclame Aqui.
Edit.:Eu copiei os links quando logado, talvez por isso que diz que é de uma lista de presentes, a minha lol Vou deslogar e editar o post.
Try the Shakespeare's Star Wars books. Alll the same tropes and language as well as lol the correct formatting. Only difference is its Star Wars. I did it with my 9th graders but it can work with older kids too. https://www.amazon.com/William-Shakespeares-Star-Wars-Doescher/dp/1594746370
I think that as a financier yeah even the gov't should exercise discretion on what it can and cannot fund. However I think it's pretty immature for that government to limit culture based on something so tame as nudity. However, that can be just as applicable to the performance. A nude performance just to act in the nude doesn't really sound like it adds anything other than to be a cheap gimmick. Nude Shakespeare had this problem cause that's all it did. But others that took Shakespeare and blended it with other media or "modernized" it actually had to exercise thought into why it held a purpose.
Not to say all nude performance is just that empty of substance outside of its nudity. But it really is up to the creator to justify it. Yes, nude is our natural, human state. Art and culture aren't natural, human states, though. They're intellectual expressions. So expecting a creator to validate the intelligence of the piece isn't a bad standard to hold, regardless of its subjectivity.
>"Dave saves the universe" That's a trilogy right there.
Boringly named man has space adventure is indeed a trilogy.