Back to space

From horse stories, I’m moving back to space with a reread of Martha Wells’ Murderbot series 1 to 5, in preparation for reading 6 and 7, which I don’t yet have. All are digital except number 2; I’m not certain how I ended up with a nice hardback copy of that one except that I was in Stefen’s Books and had a weak moment. I wish I could still afford to get all my books as actual copies, even paperbacks, but I can’t due to my wish to keep eating, and sleeping indoors.

So far I’ve reread the first two, All Systems Red and Artificial Condition and now on to Rogue Protocol. I wish somehow we could also get a look at Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot’s favourite show whose duration seems to outdo Neighbours.

I’m thinking it probably wasn’t correct to term the Hitler references in the pony book a joke; that individual was probably the worst-behaved person parents of the time could think of, and so the children themselves picked up using that reference. I remember hearing the same sort of thing from my Australian grandma, who would have been born around 1900 – I don’t actually know precisely – and when she was little and playing near a swimming pool, the kids would say, “Last one in is Kaiser Bill!”

I wonder if any American kids at the moment are being told, “Behave! You’re not Donald Trump!”