I have, of course, long since foresworn all my super-villainous ambitions, and anyone who says different is begging for a beating from the flying monkeys. Nonetheless, a series of misunderstands makes it needful that I temporarily relocate to someplace where neither Aslan, Kimball Kennison, nor the Guardians of the Universe have an extradition treaty. I shall be taking my holiday in Kurd Lasswitz’s Universal Library, which, as I’m sure you know, contains every book every written in the multiverse. How I came to possess the index to this library is an interesting story, but sadly too long to fit in the boundaries of this margin.
Anyway–whilel in the UL, I shall be getting a couple of copies of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Compleat History of Sauron in the Second Age, detailing, among other things, the activities of the aforementioned Dark Lord during the forging of the Rings of Power. (It was written three Earth-analogs over, on a world where the Perfesser lived to be 117.) I’m told it’s a good read, as is The Moon is a Harsh Master, Robert Heinlein’s sequel to the Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, so I’ll be picking up a copy of that as well. Can I get anything for the rest of y’all?
I have, for obvious reasons, locked out all settings not merely for Borges’ library but for the 665 adjacent universes. Not gonna risk it. Zeb’s idea. (Deety would risk it.)
DVDs are not books. You want Earth-analog 19484-qd, where Firefly is in still in production and currently in the middle of the Zoe-Inara-Kaylee love triangle arc.
That’s just silly. In the first place, it’s Zoe & Inara who are rivals for Kaylee’s affection. In the second place, even if the situation you postulate were the case, Kaylee’s no fool. She would look at the circumstances, judge the odds that Zoe would kill her in a jealous rage (medium-high), then judge the odds that she could take Zoe in a fight (zero) and return to her communal marriage with Simon & River Tam.
Nix panicus. Wash is still around. Because in this analog it wasn’t necessary to engage in such foolishness because the show is a smash hit. The fact that it is on HBO over there doesn’t hurt, either.
Although I don’t foresee needing a new job in the immediate future, I still wouldn’t mind getting my hands on a copy of What Color is Your Retro Rocket?
and of course, Under the Bleachers by Seymore Buttz.
I, personally, would like the complete Library at Alexandria in electronic format, translated into English, with an extensive table of contents and fully indexed. Likewise a complete set of Dead Sea Scrolls, a complete set of the Nag Hammadi scrolls, and the full sagas of Gilgamesh and Beowulf.
There might be other items, but these are off the top of my head.
