Allen Steele put out a bunch of stories along the theme of “hardhats in space” back in the ’90’s or thereabouts. I used to read and enjoy his work quite a bit back then:
I read those too back then- Orbital Decay, Lunar Descent, The Labyrinth of Night. Great fun.
Just bought Blue Collar Space on Kindle but got a couple of pages in and got distracted by an old Poul Anderson “Corridors of Time”.
“I read those too back then- Orbital Decay, Lunar Descent, The Labyrinth of Night. Great fun.”
Agreed..I read Science Fiction for just that type; kinda fella away from reading it as it came to be dominated by the various “new wave” or whatever they call it; to much socialist bs. Don’t much care for the matrix type movies/book either. Wonder if you know of any contemporary writers who write like Steele used to? Would think with all the Elon Musk Space X mars colony Bezos stuff on the horizon it would inspire new writers to write along those lines.
Blue Collar Space has a bunch of good stories. Michael Flynn’s Firestar series of novels is good.
Sort of related:
Another successful Space-X launch and it hardly gets mentioned.
Good thing.
A successful launch isn’t news anymore. They’ll only make the news now if they have a failure or pass a milestone: first crewed mission, first fully recovered spacecraft, first BFR launch, first BFR passenger flight, etc.
“A successful launch isn’t news anymore. ”
That’s my point, Ed though I would add that a successful recovery of the 1st stage isn’t news either.
Did you leave your collar in the cellar?
Allen Steele put out a bunch of stories along the theme of “hardhats in space” back in the ’90’s or thereabouts. I used to read and enjoy his work quite a bit back then:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Steele#Bibliography
I read those too back then- Orbital Decay, Lunar Descent, The Labyrinth of Night. Great fun.
Just bought Blue Collar Space on Kindle but got a couple of pages in and got distracted by an old Poul Anderson “Corridors of Time”.
“I read those too back then- Orbital Decay, Lunar Descent, The Labyrinth of Night. Great fun.”
Agreed..I read Science Fiction for just that type; kinda fella away from reading it as it came to be dominated by the various “new wave” or whatever they call it; to much socialist bs. Don’t much care for the matrix type movies/book either. Wonder if you know of any contemporary writers who write like Steele used to? Would think with all the Elon Musk Space X mars colony Bezos stuff on the horizon it would inspire new writers to write along those lines.
Blue Collar Space has a bunch of good stories. Michael Flynn’s Firestar series of novels is good.
Sort of related:
Another successful Space-X launch and it hardly gets mentioned.
Good thing.
A successful launch isn’t news anymore. They’ll only make the news now if they have a failure or pass a milestone: first crewed mission, first fully recovered spacecraft, first BFR launch, first BFR passenger flight, etc.
“A successful launch isn’t news anymore. ”
That’s my point, Ed though I would add that a successful recovery of the 1st stage isn’t news either.