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The Future Travels of Hran #1
The Intergalactic Space-buggy Diary or an Unexpected Series of Events
This is an entirely revised and enhanced edition. This is a humorous SF adventure in the far future, with dark undertones. The hero says: "I tell you how I bought my space buggy, and my adventures with it. How I updated it and reached other galaxies. Finally, how I got to the Horse-head Nebula in my space buggy… And how I stayed there!"
34 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 15, 2021
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January 28, 2022
‘I download the User Manual into my Mind Vault, the right side of my brains’
Author Jimmy Solo offers no biographical information either here on Amazon or on the website for the book, but it appears this is his debut publication. The ‘book’ is a short story and promises to be the initial episode in a series titled THE FUTURE TRAVELS OF HRAN.
Springing into the tale, Solo writes, ‘My name is Hran Bawny Crindon Lundomevag Mitalkut, but I answer to simple Hran. Now I tell you the story of my first travel. The space habitat where I have grown up, is called Cucumber. Our family of five was poor. We only got a private volume of four cubic meters per person. It was a hard life. I knew the only way out was to learn a profession. Of course, all human beings are living in habitats nowadays. That started before the Earth became inhabitable…They say, when finally the last nation on Earth finished the industrial revolution, our mother planet became finally inhabitable. By then, most of the nations lived in habitats. That was the start of our new chronology, S.A.00. So they the Space Age began. Now we write 4711…Everybody thinks it is a sorry state of affairs that no people could live on the surface of the Earth. Sadly, nobody does anything to change that.’
With that tone of writing it becomes evident that the author imbues his story with a touch of contemporary commentary, a factor that makes this space epic even more interesting. Hran escorts us through the process of buying a space vehicle (with a parody on the terms of acquisition we face with cars!) and learns the various high-tech aspects of his purchase before departing on his first ‘assignment,’ which happens to be peppered with problems with both space buggy, personal injuries (repaired with gadgets), interaction with sales, mechanics, friends, girlfriend, movies, dining – all related with space-terms talk that actually sounds real as it introduces satire.
More to come, hopefully adding an editor to clean the pages, this ‘first outing’ for Jimmy Solo is entertaining – and worthy of watching…
Author Jimmy Solo offers no biographical information either here on Amazon or on the website for the book, but it appears this is his debut publication. The ‘book’ is a short story and promises to be the initial episode in a series titled THE FUTURE TRAVELS OF HRAN.
Springing into the tale, Solo writes, ‘My name is Hran Bawny Crindon Lundomevag Mitalkut, but I answer to simple Hran. Now I tell you the story of my first travel. The space habitat where I have grown up, is called Cucumber. Our family of five was poor. We only got a private volume of four cubic meters per person. It was a hard life. I knew the only way out was to learn a profession. Of course, all human beings are living in habitats nowadays. That started before the Earth became inhabitable…They say, when finally the last nation on Earth finished the industrial revolution, our mother planet became finally inhabitable. By then, most of the nations lived in habitats. That was the start of our new chronology, S.A.00. So they the Space Age began. Now we write 4711…Everybody thinks it is a sorry state of affairs that no people could live on the surface of the Earth. Sadly, nobody does anything to change that.’
With that tone of writing it becomes evident that the author imbues his story with a touch of contemporary commentary, a factor that makes this space epic even more interesting. Hran escorts us through the process of buying a space vehicle (with a parody on the terms of acquisition we face with cars!) and learns the various high-tech aspects of his purchase before departing on his first ‘assignment,’ which happens to be peppered with problems with both space buggy, personal injuries (repaired with gadgets), interaction with sales, mechanics, friends, girlfriend, movies, dining – all related with space-terms talk that actually sounds real as it introduces satire.
More to come, hopefully adding an editor to clean the pages, this ‘first outing’ for Jimmy Solo is entertaining – and worthy of watching…
January 12, 2024
Futuristic Running Conscious of Confusion
Setting and story started out interesting, but it devolved quickly into a diary of a mad man jumping from one moment to the next with very little explanation or focus.
I did enjoy him adding up his debt and saying how long it would take to pay it off.
Still no entirely sure what I read or what it meant or if it was supposed to mean anything
Setting and story started out interesting, but it devolved quickly into a diary of a mad man jumping from one moment to the next with very little explanation or focus.
I did enjoy him adding up his debt and saying how long it would take to pay it off.
Still no entirely sure what I read or what it meant or if it was supposed to mean anything
November 29, 2021
Good premise but the story needs work with grammar, structure, characterization - execution in general. I urge the author to take this story and work on it more. I don't think it's ready for an editor yet. Once cleaned up, this will be fun jumping off place to a longer, more in-depth story/book/series. There's something good here, I think.
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