On 26/09/2025 09.04, Joy Beeson wrote:
On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:53:29 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
Friday, 29 August 2025
Can't send this because the internet is down again. We'd be
having some sharp words with BrightSpeed, were it not that
we have already told Surf Internet to install fiber-optic
cable.
The cable was buried a few days ago. I was in Fort Wayne at
the time, but not reading. The new router is at the other
end of the house, and the signal in my office is weak and
intermittent.
Current waiting-room reading is the March/April 2024 Analog,
beginning with "Ganny goes to war" by David Gerrold.
Finding out, about halfway through, that Ganny's official
name is Hazel Stone is a nice easter egg, but it reminds
those who get it that this story is a story. (I peeked: the
last line is "We are going to be all right.")
Funny; when I saw the Subject: I thought that "Ganny" was short for
"Ganymede". This is probably due to the Asimov story "Heredity"[1].
Tale of twins reunited, after one of them grew up on Mars and the
other on Ganymede. The latter referred to his home world as
"Ganny".
Dr. A. wrote at least one other story involving Ganymede:
"Christmas on Ganymede"[2]. Unfortunately, it was one of his early
attempts at humor.
I loved _The Rolling Stones_ as a teenager, and wished that
the book were a great deal longer.
Are you aware that young Hazel has a brief cameo in _The Moon is
a Harsh Mistress_?
[1] <
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62901>
[2] <
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?68248>
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Michael F. Stemper
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding;
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.
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