flying

[gurdonark]

I fly a great deal for work. Last night security sorted me out for extra searching every time, perhaps because a last minute itinerary change caught the "flag" for searching.
I know that some complaints have arisen, but my own experience has been that it's been pretty courteously done.

It's fun to devour a sci fi in a single flight. Last night was J.D. Austin's Second Contact. I was amused that J.D. Austin is a pen name for another sci fi author with whom I am not really familiar. The book was a jaunty read, a utopian novel about a utopia of folks who really aren't that different from modern folks today, only their lives work.
It was no earth-shattering work of fiction, but it did have some of that "golden age" satiric feel without becoming too quietly reverential in its old-fashioned fun.

I think that sci fi novels I checked out when I was 13 in the Arkadelphia public library were like little salvations, clues to who I was, memories I'll always treasure.

Comments

[asphalteden.livejournal.com]

I too have many memories of checking out books in the library as a kid. These titles just stay with you, you know? Who knows what I'd be doing now if not for those books by James Blish, Bradbury, Simak, and HG Wells?

We were really poor when I was a boy, so the library was the only way I got my books (and monster movie reels for that matter).

[appolo-50.livejournal.com]

Arkadelphia? I've been there a couple times