"Envy is the ulcer of the soul" - Socrates
Book Details
Title: Methuselah's Children
Tag-line: 'Heinlein define modern science fiction.' Frederik Pohl
Genre/Category: Science Fiction
Type: Novel
Authour: Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher: Hale
ISBN: 0-7090-6799-2
Reading Details
Started Reading: 15th October 2008
Finished Reading: 22nd October 2008
Comments
The shock. The horror. Another sentence fragment. I didn't finish Legends II before I ran out of reservations at the library. It was good, but I read it slowly. The reason is perhaps that I didn't experience the page-turning desire I usually do for a single piece of longer fiction. Another reason is that I have been listening to an awful lot of podcast audio fiction. I may well also be a little bit fantasy-fatigued after reading so much in a strange run whilst also attempting a large fantasy novel of my own (which is all but finished now).
Granted, science-fiction isn't that much of a leap out of the fantasy section, it's still speculative fiction, but I've heard so much about Robert A. Heinlein recently -- in a
... I've just spent ages trying wrack my brains and google for the word I want to use here. It's a strange one ... watch this space ...
... kind of way. (That is, once I heard his name once it kept cropping up). Anyway, now that I'm reading a short novel I hope it'll grip me enough to want to ingest my stories in a more traditional manner.
knanshon
That word I was trying to find was "diegogarcity". I remembered hearing it on an old podictionary podcast, so after several attempts at trying to spell it for google I gave up and listened to the podcast (it's 21m:22s in). Now that I know how to spell it of course, google delivers . . .
"(For those of you who are wondering, diegogarcity is a term coined by Aldiboronti on the Wordorigins discussion forum for the coincidence of just learning something new, such as a new word, and then seeing it in several places immediately afterwords. It is a play on serendipity, as Serendip is an old name for Sri Lanka. For this concept, Aldi chose another Indian Ocean island as the namesake.)"