Visitor From Beyond the Stars!

[stickmaker]

 

Well, at least from outside our star system:

http://spaceref.com/asteroids/something-visited-our-solar-system-from-interstellar-space.html

There are currently no formal rules for naming such objects. I suggest using names from mythology and folklore - and possibly even history - of famous travelers. 

For this one I suggest Odysseus. 

Comments

[stickmaker]

Ow.

I managed to get a copy of the hardback novelization of _Forbidden Planet_ many years ago at MarCon. I sold it a few years later for a fair profit.

I still have a hardback copy of _The Power_, the novel George Pal later turned into one of his best movies. Not actually very valuable, but a good read. Though I think Pal had a better ending.

There's actually more technical info in the magazine magazine serial version of _Skylark_ (available at Project Gutenberg). I used that to create a spreadsheet for copper-based drives and such. :-)

This was for something I call Skylarking. It's a proposed tribute to the original story for its centenary. The idea is that the first part of the book is based on real events Doc Smith heard about second- or third-hand, with the rest being all his invention. Because the "real" versions of Seaton and Crane never returned from their first test flight, due to a flaw in their design. The families in their grief put all the equipment and notes in storage, not looked at again until they're rediscovered a century later. That is, now.

[kengr]

Oops. There was a typo. It was $100 not $10 (a vendor at a Westercon who was *that* ignorant of values...). But I could still have afforded it easily enough.

Oh, that's far from the only time I've passed up something and then kicked myself later.

Sometime in the early 2000s I saw a hardcover of "The Hunt For Red October" at Powells. The Naval Institute one. Price wasn't even that high ($20 or less?). I just didn't get it.

Later I found out that that was the actual first printing/first edition.

Oh well.

Your Skylarking sounds good. And I'll have go get that Project Gutenburg file.

I am more than a bit annoyed that the trade paperback acid-free paper copies of the Lensman series didn't include The Vortex Blaster/Masters of the Vortex.

And they only did the first two Skylark books. While I can understand Skylark Duquesne not being included (it was printed in the 60s after all) Skylark of Valeron would have been nice, but I guess it didn't quite make it into public domain. and since the Smith estate has been such idiots about rights... *sigh*

I'll relocate my late sixties paperback copies of those two eventually.