Beam Me Up, Scotty

 

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The Long and Short Reviews prompt for September 2 asks for one sci-fi item or ability that we wish really existed.

Here is some music to enjoy while we ponder the possibility.

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Conversations with the Time Keeper.

My choice is the transporter from the Star Trek universe. I also include a mini review of Star Trek the Motion Picture free of charge.

Boy howdy, would I love it if I didn't have to drive 65 miles at 65 miles an hour to go to Costco. It would be so handy if my family and I could just step into our home transporter room and arrive in Costco's transporter room seconds later. Then when we were done shopping, we could just beam back home with our haul.

I should specify that I want the transporter from Star Trek the Original Series. I've never understood  why they crapified the transporter in the first Star Trek movie. The one they had during the three seasons of the show never turned anyone into an unrecognizable pile of meat. I was looking forward to this movie so much, and the transporter horror scene was not an auspicious start.

Despite the multitude of problems with the movie, I enjoyed it overall and would watch it again. I give it three stars because I was thrilled to be reunited with my favorite characters and the special effects were awe-inspiring. However, the writers were so enamored with depicting the concept of man merging with (attractive female) machine that they didn't seem to care whether the rest of the story was cohesive and engaging. 

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World Gone Dark series release by January Bain

 Good Morning to you and Happy September!

It's been another grand month since last we met. Fall is my favourite season and it's come in so lovely and inspiring this year. The weather is perfect, unlike the rainy June and July we had that prevented certain activities like building on our rural property. Now we're catching up and it feels darn good! I trust your summer has gone well and you're looking forward to the change in weather.

My biggest thought at the moment in my recent book release: 

                                               Race the Chaos

The book came out a few days ago from Rough Edges Press, and is the third book in my World Gone Dark series. I made a little video to share:

If you would like to check it out further, here's the link: Amazon

The apocalypse didn’t just take the lights. Now it’s hunting them.

The heat is relentless, water is running out, and something is moving through the dark hollows of Kentucky that has no interest in mercy. When escaped tigers stalk the forests and the Rebel Sons MC strips the town pharmacy bare, Burgundy Mackenzie faces an impossible choice: let her sister Poppy die, or go to the one man she can’t afford to owe again.

Frost Hellebuyck has always kept the club’s violence at arm’s length. But agreeing to help Burgundy pulls him into the MC’s brutal hierarchy deeper than he ever planned to go…and deeper than he can easily walk back from. Far from home, Auburn survives a savage betrayal on the lawless roads and finds an unexpected ally who may change everything, and Cormac, finally free of his murderous traveling companions, presses toward home through fire and ruin, making choices that would break a lesser man.

Then the ham radio crackles with something worse than any storm: Mycosis-A, a deadly ancient plague unleashed from the melting Greenland ice, is spreading. The collapse was just the opening act. In a world gone dark, the most lethal enemy yet is invisible…and there is no race fast enough to outrun it.

I wish you a fond adieux until next month!

Hugs, January

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