That would make sense, because I really do have the feeling I've read this before, and some stuff after it I think ... though it was a while back, and the memories are fuzzy.
A space-ship race very much like this though, including the scrap though the keyhole, and running up to an awards event I think ...
The old brain ain't what it used to be. :)
Heh, yeah, it's not space opera (or golden age comics) if you don't have the names like that. Anything else would be starkly unthinkable!
I always found parts of Skylark to be odd ... his paen to eugenics with the perfection he describes in the Green System, yet at the same time all the action is being pushed by a bunch of very mongrel (by comparison) humans.
Oh, and I can only assume that interface control systems in the Skylark setting are powered by emotion. Never have switches been flicked and buttons pressed with such intensity!
Re: Atomic Rockets!
A space-ship race very much like this though, including the scrap though the keyhole, and running up to an awards event I think ...
The old brain ain't what it used to be. :)
Heh, yeah, it's not space opera (or golden age comics) if you don't have the names like that. Anything else would be starkly unthinkable!
I always found parts of Skylark to be odd ... his paen to eugenics with the perfection he describes in the Green System, yet at the same time all the action is being pushed by a bunch of very mongrel (by comparison) humans.
Oh, and I can only assume that interface control systems in the Skylark setting are powered by emotion. Never have switches been flicked and buttons pressed with such intensity!
-- Brett