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edwardroosterHRVST Ch. 22: Ancient Games With New Players Remain The Same
Some games are still played because of their deceptive simplicity. The prize remains even if the players change. The outcomes are never certain, whether it was the first round at first light or the last round before the lights go out. Newcomers to the game can still defeat old masters. Luna, South Aitken Basin, On a train en route to Shackleton Crater, Hyperion “Shisima,” said the Captain. “Excuse me?” Tomassina looked up from her equipment check. The Captain thought about one of his moments ...
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2062 Arcadia Planitia, Mars XIRANG ONE - CHINESE SETTLEMENT - ARCADIA PLANITIAThe bluish sunset marked the end of a long bad day. When night came, the work inside continued. There were injured people and damaged systems to tend to. A fitful sleep for most.Settlements everywhere, from the largest installations to remote outposts, wanted to make it through the night. It was one Martian day at a time. 1 SOL (EARTH CLOCK 24HR:37MIN:22SEC).Hayley rubbed aches, sipped her water to stretch out her b...
edwardrooster1648 4.23 Stupid Games, Bad Ideas, 2909
1960 Park Slope, Brooklyn He learned to read at 4, and he liked to draw his favorite cartoons. His mother encouraged art. At 7, he went to a private school. That year, he and his best friend made a children's book. Everything changed the next year. A car hit him, leaving him with a broken arm and internal injuries. While in the hospital, his mother gave him a copy of Grey's Anatomy. Soon after she was put in an institution. Despite the changes, he became fluent and literate in 3 lan...
Writer: future, fiction, finance, based on history, mythology, and technology
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2921 The Belt
Daedalus led his mind to discover flight to escape prison. Icarus, his son, was led by his emotions, and fell to death.
Humanity strained past Earth’s gravity and learned falling but never landing.
When we’re falling forward, just ahead of doom, we embrace it as floating.
We’re flying in orbit.
Jakey Tagore was almost born doing low-G gymnastics and tumbles, helping his Dad and brothers, delight the laborers and migrants riding cheap slowships between Jupiter and Mars. The System’s famous “Tagore and Sons” live! The hours were long on the slowships, and Dad would have to nudge him.
In his sleep Jakey was tumbling and floating, “Jakey wakey, Jakey wakey! Hey Wake up Jake! Alert, Alert, Alert...”
Dad’s voice changed into an intervoice.
“Alert, Alert, orientation lock negative. Alert, alert....” Jakey was no longer a boy. He was a man roused conscious by his deep-suit. He was tumbling and falling - in trouble.
This was not a show on a slowship transporting workers.
This was trespassing inside a massive deepship, hewn from an asteroid, heated and hollowed up, kilometers and kilometers long. The deep-ship was also tumbling but in the wrong way. Jake was in a long free fall towards one end of a gigantic cylinder.
Years of gymnastic hustling and nanite drugs kept him from throwing up so far.
“Al! Help, where are you?? Get me the hell out of here!””Relax nephew, we’re trying to lock the axis, you got time.””Al!””Hang on, getting things fixed, “lights” coming on.”Jacob Tagore willed himself back to flight training.
“Pretend it’s a Halo jump, Jacob. We’re almost set.”
“Estimated time to impact...” Jacob ignored his suit.
2921 The Belt
Daedalus led his mind to discover flight to escape prison. Icarus, his son, was led by his emotions, and fell to death.
Humanity strained past Earth’s gravity and learned falling but never landing.
When we’re falling forward, just ahead of doom, we embrace it as floating.
We’re flying in orbit.
Jakey Tagore was almost born doing low-G gymnastics and tumbles, helping his Dad and brothers, delight the laborers and migrants riding cheap slowships between Jupiter and Mars. The System’s famous “Tagore and Sons” live! The hours were long on the slowships, and Dad would have to nudge him.
In his sleep Jakey was tumbling and floating, “Jakey wakey, Jakey wakey! Hey Wake up Jake! Alert, Alert, Alert...”
Dad’s voice changed into an intervoice.
“Alert, Alert, orientation lock negative. Alert, alert....” Jakey was no longer a boy. He was a man roused conscious by his deep-suit. He was tumbling and falling - in trouble.
This was not a show on a slowship transporting workers.
This was trespassing inside a massive deepship, hewn from an asteroid, heated and hollowed up, kilometers and kilometers long. The deep-ship was also tumbling but in the wrong way. Jake was in a long free fall towards one end of a gigantic cylinder.
Years of gymnastic hustling and nanite drugs kept him from throwing up so far.
“Al! Help, where are you?? Get me the hell out of here!””Relax nephew, we’re trying to lock the axis, you got time.””Al!””Hang on, getting things fixed, “lights” coming on.”Jacob Tagore willed himself back to flight training.
“Pretend it’s a Halo jump, Jacob. We’re almost set.”
“Estimated time to impact...” Jacob ignored his suit.
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