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Jan. 22nd, 2022
- Fri, 20:41: The Gripping Hand Larry Niven, 1993 Pocket Books, US, first edition February 1993 https://t.co/orbtxnwwuY https://t.co/gp5EY8NxQD
- Fri, 21:41: Footfall Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, 1985 Del Rey / Ballantine Books, US, first edition May 1985 Printed in Canada https://t.co/BRaSRasyP2 https://t.co/cnaZv3onGn
- Fri, 21:41: N-Space Larry Niven, 1990 TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, US, first edition September 1990 https://t.co/dkJXG9v2QN https://t.co/og24gBhk2l
- Fri, 21:41: The Ringworld Throne Larry Niven, 1996 Del Rey / Ballantine Books, US, first edition June 1996 https://t.co/0YQQlao5KI https://t.co/gaqSpD4JxO
- Fri, 21:41: Just saw my reflection and now I'm wondering how much of the day was I walking around with my hair like this. https://t.co/hCDIccf1yA https://t.co/IOMnhUYkai
The Ringworld Throne
Jan. 22nd, 2022 12:02 pm
The Ringworld Throne Larry Niven, 1996 Del Rey / Ballantine Books, US, first edition June 1996
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Just saw my reflection and now I’m wondering how much of the day was I walking around with my hair like this.
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OK, this is a little crazy. I was about to shoot a few more books as hit a section that is a little disorganised, so I started moving things around, and of course you just can’t move books around without inevitably thumbing through half of them. One I flipped through was a book on the Dieppe Raid called “The Shame and the Glory: Dieppe” wherein was an image of a tracked vehicle in a landing craft. Despite the low resolution halftoning in the book a face jumped out… because it is mine. Or rather, my dad’s, who I closely resemble. “Nah,” I think, “That can’t really be him.” Over 6,000 people were deployed on that raid (and over 3,600 didn’t come back) - chances are slim. But I thought I’d check, so I and scanned it and then Google image searched for a higher resolution copy of the picture. Now I’m really not sure it isn’t him. The guy in the back of the vehicle with his head tilted could be him. Even when zooming into the high resolution picture it’s still too blurry to be sure. A point against this being him is this in not a Churchill tank, but the picture is from a training exercise, not the actual raid. The points for this being him are there is a maple leaf with a buffalo on the front of the vehicle, which is the 14th Army Tank Regiment (Calgary), his regiment, and the sergeant leaning against the bulwark near the front of the landing craft looks an awful lot like a guy in another picture I have of my dad standing in front of a tank, a tank that also has a “5” on it just like this vehicle.
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