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So Ace is somehow the captain?
& then all the crew on the grain ship disappeared ... except for 1 guy.
So shenanigans ensue. Lots of fun!
It was really neat to listen to an audio drama, but the under-the-breath mutterings were hard to hear over tire noise.
I'm going to listen to more. 🥰
So it was divided into 3 or 4 episodes (with the theme music! 💖) & featured aliens I've never heard of. & this is not *my* Doctor (that's Tom Baker) so it took me a minute to figure out the voices.
Ace & the Doctor are on a spaceship escorting a grain shipment to a starving planet.
Today I finished up Doctor Who: Earth Aid. It was a full cast audio drama, featuring Sylvester McCoy's Doctor, written by Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel. It looks like part of a series called The Lost Stories.
Plus, they had interviews with the cast.
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HarlequinAudio did the audiobook, which is weird? But maybe their audiobook arm isn't solely romance? 🤷♀️
& I could hear the spliced-in fixes but it was better than the last book.
The narrator was good, tho, so I might see what else he's done.
So if you like time travel & spy stories, this kind of fits into that Venn diagram overlap.
If you had a father who kept disappearing, this provides a sci fi excuse & might be fun to read.
If you want a soccer explanation to provide the rescue plan, this is your book!
So the rest of the book is him figuring out how to covertly & illegally contact his daughter. Then how to covertly & illegally save his daughter from elimination. Plus simultaneously rebuilding his relationship with his fiancee - He has an extra 20-ish years of life experience without her.
He is essentially dragged back to his former life - fiancee, flying cars, & the company soccer team - leaving behind his wife, teenaged daughter, & IT job.
His daughter is an "anomaly" & is at risk for elimination ... but his bosses leave her be.
But being stuck more than a century in the past isn't healthy & he starts to lose his memories of his former life. When the main story starts, the only reliable proof he has is his broken retrieval beacon, which he tossed in the garbage.
But then - of course - he gets "rescued".
Finished the audiobook of Mike Chen's Here & Now & Then, read by Cary Hite. (My book group read the book I listened to earlier, A Quantum Love Story.)
This was more time travel. Secret agents prevent time mercenaries from mucking about ... only 1 gets stranded in the 1990s.
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The Gen X urge to walk on sunshine.
We just did population estimating in my 9th grade environmental science class (using beans) - This timing is perfect!
This is the best discourse going. 😆🥰
(I just played Weird Al for my 6th graders during Day 3 - & Day Last - of building/ testing/ improving straw rockets.)
I thought this picture was Bubba Ho-tep's Elvis & Weird Al so... 😆🙄🤷♀️
Audiobooks are great for the drive to work but there's big pieces that are missing - I really needed those maps! 😅
If I ever start an "epidemics/ public health" shelf, I will absolutely get the actual book.
Ha! Authors commenting (or even just liking) my reports on their books only encourages me to read more & report more. 😆🥰📖
Please tell me the actual book had maps & timelines! (& photos, obviously.) My brain needed those (mostly because I'm weak on the actual history).
This was a really interesting book, so thanks for writing it. (Most of my book reports are *much* shorter. 😆)
Brilliant!
Drawing of a long fish with little lightning bolts around it; text says “Is your name E. voltai? Because you’re electrifying”
Drawing of aurora over mountains; text says “you’ve got me in an excited state”
Sharing a couple of past #sciencevalentines (some of the best puns are thanks to collab w @carrotslittle.bsky.social )
I'm actually on the upswing, which apparently means increased mucus production. I am not a fan! 😆
Me, every time I get sick: I am not a hagfish - How am I producing this much mucus? 🙄
This whole thread, *and* the comments (mostly).
All these fancy new medical innovations - Who needs 'em?
::slowly raises hand::
It's not related to mRNA but my specific breast cancer a few years back was untreatable just 25 or 30 years ago.
(But I was a fan of medical improvements before that )
I seriously gasped when I read how easy it would be to swap one "learn this pathogen" RNA snippet into an already tested & approved vaccine delivery micelle. Like, super easy, & so fast!
It kills me that the people doing the foundational work had to fight for funding.
But at least they're consistent, what with rolling back air pollution regulations, making insurance both less useful & more expensive, etc. Who needs public or private health? *They* won't get sick, surely not, so why worry?
I'm going to encourage my students to learn phrenology - Why are we even bothering with this "science" stuff? 🙄
(Honestly, mRNA vaccines are freakin' marvelous. But who needs futuristic health care?)
You're soooo much closer to the action! 😆 But have you lived in Massachusetts also? (Those are the colonies/ states most featured.)
Honestly, tho, even having visited one of the places would have been a helpful anchor. YMMV really is all about life experiences.
O, & Daniel Webster (later of dictionary fame) pushed a theory that diseases weren't infectious, they were caused by disturbances in the atmosphere - so quarantines, preventative vaccinations, & public health efforts in general were a waste of resources. Who knew I could dislike a dead man so much?
That sounds hilarious & awful.
This guy, his voice changed slightly over the course of the book (13.5 hours) so the new sentences were obviously after the whole book was recorded.
So now I'm interested in the process of making audiobooks...
