Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:13:32 -0500
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Book suggestions sought ...
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com,<wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 11/13/2007 02:38 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
><http://oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com/163128.html>
>
>Important caveat:
>"... remember this is for kindergarten through fifth grade and must be
>age-appropriate . . . and must be relatively recent and available"

Yeah, the stuff we read as kids won't go over well today...too much
openmindedness, science, optimism, capitalism, and self-reliance, and
not enough sex, drugs, negativity, political correctness, and whining
about trivia.

Maybe if we could somehow combine "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" with
"Neuromancer"?

Here, I'll start you off:

I felt the usual gritty wet resistance as the cyberlink came free of
my skull.  It had been a good hack...the corporates would be sending
me a brand new Nipo Industries VacSuit grattis, on the assumption
that I'd actually eaten the 300 boxes of breakfast pseudo-soy mulch
and been picked at random from all the slobbering cattle-people who
had done the same.  In actuality, I wouldn't touch the stuff with a
radio-linked waldo if I was in the final stages of starvation.

Which is uncomfortably close to my actual state at the moment.  Lucky
for me their security awareness is as low as the food value of their
products, and by the time the "prize" arrives, I'll have a buyer
lined up for a quick sale and then it will be top end groceries for
me!  Until then I'll just have to hope the local pigeons don't wise up.

-- next! --

-- Mike B.
--
"Writers don`t have lifestyles. They sit in little rooms and write."

                                                       -- Norman Mailer