There'll be an airplane crash in Burma next week, but it shouldn't affect me here in New York. And the feegs certainly can't harm me. Not with all my closet doors closed.

No, the big problem is lesnerizing. I must not lesnerize. Absolutely not. As you can imagine, that hampers me.

And to top it all, I think I'm catching a really nasty cold.

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No more.

Now, for the same great price, you get... 40 downloads. 40 MP3s. Per month. Well, it's probably not the most amazingly bad offer ever made, but it's pretty damn sucky. I'm cancelling my account.

After first downloading the rest of They Might Be Giants' ouvre, that is.

And to add insult to injury:

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One might even... Yes, one might even go so far as to call it good.

Now I'm off to finish reading it. After all, it's only been waiting for fifty years.

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I've never been disappointed by John Varley.

Until now.

If Rocketship Galileo had been written by the Robert Heinlein who wrote The Number of the Beast, rather than the Robert Heinlein who, well, wrote Rocketship Galileo, you'd have Red Thunder. It's all there: the characters too stupid to live, the pointless and unappealing sex, the arguments about who's going to drive, the contrived plot...

I give it sucks out of five. And no, I haven't suddenly developed a New Zealand accent.

Avoid.

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Not happy at all.

* In one post I used the term shitweasels to refer to the senior management at SCO, and received an irate comment from a shitweasel complaining that I had unfairly maligned shitweasels the world over. Hence the neologism.

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It's called For Us, the Living, and it was lost more than 60 years ago:

"For Us, the Living," was put aside, and eventually lost. The Heinleins apparently destroyed all copies they had. And because at the time it was written Heinlein was not a member of the science fiction community, no other sf writers knew about it. He had let one or two friends read it, and it is by a long trail through one of them that this rarest of treasures was located.

So, who else has a long-forgotten novel hidden away? A few years ago a lost work by Fritz Leiber, The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich, was rediscovered and published. Tolkien's unpublished story Roverandom likewise languished for decades before reaching the public.

If you asked me to name the three authors I'd most like to see have a lost work rediscovered, those would be high - very high - on the list. Sometimes things do work out the way they should.

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First, When Frnak Attacks by Jennifer.
Then Cruisin' by Susie.
And then A New Hope by Jennifer again.

Update:

And then Frnak Lives! by Susie again.

And then there's No Moonies for Oil, which is by Susie* but is found on Tiger's blog. (And is now to be found on Susie's blog too.)

Update:

And then again, there's Idle Chatter by Jennifer once more.

Update:

Somehow I missed Presidential Fun Facts! by Tuning Spork. This has now been corrected.

Update:

And now Tiger has got into the act with Frnak Must Die!

I'm not sure exactly where these fit into the plot... Presumably before Susie and Jennifer were abducted by Movable Frnak.

*Random linkage again.

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The Blogfather episode 10, Blogfinger, is now available.

I think I'd better take my medicine now...

[I wonder if we should tell Glenn Reynolds... He is, after all, the star of the show. Well, co-star, after Susie. And you, Pixy. And Frnak and the cast of herons. And the Moon Men. Well, he did appear in one scene. Before being upstaged by his robot double. So maybe we shouldn't tell him. — Ed.]

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(Warning: This is episode 9 in the continuing story of The Blogfather. If you are confused, you should first watch the earlier works, to be found here, here, here, and here. If you are still confused after that, we suggest that you give up blogging and start a new life as a potato farmer. We know it worked for us.)

[No one saw that, did they? Good. — Ed.]

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