Banadin: Blog

As several readers have pointed out, the Heinlein story was Tunnel in the Sky. Farmer in the sky was another book. Blame it on relying on 50 plus year old memories instead of fact checking on the internet.

A stobor was an unknown, unforeseeable nasty beast in a story, by Robert Heinlein, Farmer in the Sky. It was a very popular young adult book in the 1950's. I have made mention of books that my protagonist was reading and giving hints without writing the title. That one was to deep, almost sorry about that. :)
Ed

One email got my attention today, it was mentioned that at times my stories read like an outline. They do not bring you into the now. Even more telling is my greatest critics comment (My wife),she likes to visualize the story as she goes. She has to work to hard for most of my people to come alive. From Chapter 4 on I hope you will see an improvement. I only took up writing three weeks ago. This was a result of a long driving trip where I started to make up and share the story with my wife. She challenged me to write it down. I think she is working on the idle hands are the devils tools since I am taking the winter off.

An Anon reader pointed out that in the Summer Vacation story I had Rick flying on a Boeing 707. They did not come out till October of 1958 and that was with PanAm.

That was not a critical point to the story so I did not check. Shame on me. For the record after checking Eastern never owned any 707'2. They were DC 8 or 1011's. Double shame on me because I fly Eastern a lot in the late 60's and until they closed in 1991. Thanks for the heads up.

Thank you for all the kind comments and possible leads to new direction.

I would especially like to thank the anonymous poster for the language corrections. They are fairly good. Well the person said my story was fairly good. So were their corrections. Except for one, missed the boat on a word definition. Rather than explain it here, read Ninth Grade 1958-1959 to see what was wrong.

Actually I do not mind having my errors pointed out. I am trying to learn. It has 56 years since freshman English.