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[dduane]

As there's been some discussion of How Much For Just The Planet? recently: above is the link to the Gizmodo review.

In the process, Kirk ends up involved in Shakespearean nightmare involving star-crossed lovers, Uhura is chained to a Klingon while they live out a Raymond Chandler plot, and Sulu and McCoy are captured by an evil queen who wants to make them her slaves. And best of all, Scotty has a duel with a Klingon, fought the traditional Scottish way: a round of golf. Also there’s a pie fight.

#John M. Ford #How Much For Just The Planet? #Star Trek novels

[cakehorse]

There was a red flower on the desk where Kirk's dress uniform had been waiting for the laundryman, with a card reading "With the Hotel's Compliments." Kirk smiled, picked up the flower, and with an elaborate flourish of his wrist inserted it in his buttonhole. When Pete's buddy Zack, playing the cat burglar, pretended to stun Kirk, he would grasp the flower as a last, sinking gesture. Tonight's entertainment was being played for royalty, after all.

How Much for Just the Planet by John M. Ford

Many people believe the T in James T. Kirk stands for "Tiberius," but it actually stands for "Total Drama Queen."

#How much for just the planet #John M. Ford #star trek #tos #books #currently reading #he's taking part in a fake burglary to make this guy Pete look good to his girlfriend's parents #so he is going to pretend to be attacked and everyone gets saved by Pete making his gf's parents okay with them getting married #of course Shenanigans are going to happen

[petermorwood]

Hey, since cloning technology is good enough for them to create mammoth meatballs but not the entire mammoth yet, which prehistoric animal do you feel like taking a bite of?

Given where I was born, and where @dduane and I currently live, I think some Giant Irish Elk venison would be about right.

Enough for the entire clan with plenty of leftovers and a Handy Thing To Hang Stuff From.

*****

Which leads via Memory Lane to a funny by John M. Ford, who used to post such things - along with witticisms, wise observations and poetry - on Making Light.

He produced these in the same way a bonfire produces sparks: random, unexpected, brilliant and without apparent effort - though like the graceful swan on the river, I bet there was a lot of work going on out of sight. Or maybe not. Mike was that good.

For instance, he wrote THIS just to comment on another post...

I saved everything I could find offline because You Can Never Tell about online stuff, and also because there was, for a time, doubt - happily, It Got Better - that ANY of his writing would ever be seen again.

(Dammit, just like Terry Pratchett I HATE having to refer to Mike in past tense...)

And now, the funny (original archived Here). I've been assured that This Recipe Will Work, though the assurance also came with a strong suggestion about reducing the ingredient quantities More Than Somewhat.

*****

Hot Gingered Pygmy Mammoth & Jumbo Shrimp Salad

Feeds your whole tribe.

1 pygmy mammoth, boned and cubed (about 1 ton) 1 ton jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined (many many ordinary shrimps, or one Ebirah claw) 10 buckets sesame seeds 60 pounds bean thread noodles if you are an Eastern tribe, whatever your tribe uses for noodles otherwise. If you have not yet invented the noodle, this might be a good time to do so. 1 bucket vegetable oil 1 bucket sesame oil Salt 10 buckets minced fresh ginger 6 buckets minced garlic 15 buckets dry Sherry 15 buckets rice wine vinegar 60 pounds sugar 60 buckets diced fresh mangoes 15 buckets chopped green onions Big Snorgul's helmet full of red pepper flakes 10 buckets chopped fresh cilantro, plus 5 Big Snorgul's helmets fresh cilantro, garnish 1000 large heads lettuce, cored and leaves separated (a raid on the People Who Grow Stuff may be necessary) 30 buckets thinly sliced, peeled, seeded, drained cucumbers, or just chop up the damn cucumbers and say "Fie to thee!" a lot All the chives you got

Preheat a giant turtle shell over a fumarole. A big giant turtle. Put some oil in there. Make sure no other giant turtles are around to see you do this.

On a flat rock, stirring with your Stick of the Dining God, dry cook the sesame seeds over medium heat until they are brown and smell good. Remove from the heat. Add the noodles to the turtle shell and fry fast until puffy and the color of sunrise. Remove from the oil and drain on non-itchy leaves. Throw salt. Set aside.

Sear the mammoth meat on the flat rock. Salt but don't overdo it, you remember what happened to the Chest-Clutching Tribe of the Plains. Drain.

Get a less giant turtle shell. Okay, think of this as a celebration dish for a good turtle hunt and shrimp catch. Make the vegetable oil and most of the sesame oil dance. Add the shrimp, mammoth, ginger, and garlic, and cook fast, stirring, until the shrimp are just pink and firm. Doom of Ten Thousand Wretched Canapés awaits those who overcook shrimp. Remove from the shell with pole weapons. Add the sherry and vinegar, and sing the Song of Deglazing over medium heat. Add the sugar and stir until it is one with the sauce. Cook until half the fluid is gone. Feed anybody who thinks this is waste to the giant turtles. Add the rest of the sesame oil, mangoes, green onions, and pepper flakes, and stir to warm through and wilt. No, this wilt is good. Tell the people it is the wilt of the Wilt God. You need all the mojo you can get. Remove from the heat and add the shrimp and ginger, and the cilantro. Stir to warm through and do the Highly Dramatic Ritual of Adjusting the Seasoning to Taste.

Now your tribal status is on the thin edge of the cleaver. Have everybody bring what they eat off of. You know your tribe. Put lettuce on whatever they hold out and spread the hot stuff on it. Those who have no eating platters should be used to the drill by now. Arrange cucumber slices on top in whatever symbolic pattern seems propitious to you and sprinkle with the toasted sesame seeds. If you have a really tough tribe, yell "Bam!" until they get a groove going. Add fried noodles, cilantro sprigs, and chives, and watch for any signs of people keeling over that can't be blamed on strong drink.

#prehistoric animals #edible archaeology #irish elk #pygmy mammoth #john m. ford #gnu terry pratchett #recipes

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[torbooks]

hey look it’s a picture of some rlly good fantasy books lol

Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

Rise of the Mages by Scott Drakeford

In the Shadow of Lightning by Brian McClellan

The Starless Crown by James Rollins

Aspects by John M. Ford

Destiny of the Dead by Kel Kade

The Memory in the Blood by Ryan Van Loan

#daughter of redwinter #ed mcdonald #rise of the mages #scott drakeford #in the shadow of lightning #brian mcclellan #the starless crown #james rollins #aspect #john m. ford #destiny of the dead #kel kade #the memory in the blood #ryan van loan #fantasy #books #epic fantasy #redemption

[biblioklept]

(This is not a review of) The Dragon Waiting, John M. Ford's lost classic of fantastical history

So what’s this book you liked so much? It’s called The Dragon Waiting. It’s a 1983 novel by a guy named John M. Ford. It’s this erudite historical fantasy, or maybe fantastical history, that— Wait, it’s called The Dragon Waiting? It’s like about dragons and shit? Dungeons and dragons? There are dungeons, or really towers—the whole medieval motif of hostage-taking is part of the novel—but no, no…

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#blogs #Cult Novels #historical fantasy #Historical Fiction #John M. Ford #Reviews #riffs #The Dragon Waiting #Thomas Pynchon

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Against Entropy, by John M. Ford

Against Entropy

by John M. Ford

The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days Perhaps you will not miss them. That’s the joke. The universe winds down. That’s how it’s made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you’ll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

#poetry #john m. ford #entropy #say what the fuck you mean #bear witness #iterate #live the life you intend to live #from here on forward #because entropy always wins #we don't fight because we can win #we fight because we are the only entities in creation that can fight entropy #literally all the meaning our existence has is in acts of defiant creation

[dravencroft]

"Memory needs time to dwell in the bone. It never knows its death."

One of my favourite scenes from the book The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford: Cloudhunter the elf with the dinosaur skull.

#dravensart #The Last Hot Time #John M. Ford #John Milo Ford #Cloudhunter #Cloudhunter Who Keeps His Sisters' Counsel #Bordertown #Borderland #digital art #sometimes you just gotta draw fanart of something so obscure but so important for you #please read The Last Hot Time #please read any of John M. Ford's books #please join me in crying for Cloudhunter

[aeide-thea]

It has been said that, if a person is going to die, he should do it in the morning: when the day is new and clean and full of unanswerable questions, when the sun has just risen to cast an afterglow on the things that have been done by night. It has also been said that, if a person is going to die, the circumstances are irrelevant.

On this Paleday morning in Lystourel, capital city of the Republic of Lescoray, the twenty-fifth day of Shepherd’s month, three days before the Equinoctial holiday and six until the autumn Equinox itself, a legal duel was scheduled for seven o’clock in the morning: by seven thirty at the latest, a man whose beliefs ran one way about death and morning was going to kill one of the other persuasion.

(John M. Ford, Aspects, p. 1)

#some stuff here i like a lot and some stuff here i like less! but on the whole: fun! #specifically: i always enjoy a stylistic contrast of the type set up in the first paragraph (long grandiose pontification abruptly deflated) #and i do enjoy it when authors really commit to calendrical and place-name invention #on the other hand i kind of think the amount of calendrical information heaped up here is overkill— #although on the other OTHER hand i think it's entirely self-aware & deliberate abt that: all this will soon be irrelevant to the dead man— #and i'm perennially irritated by the so-called gender-neutral 'he‚' although i accept that it lends an authentically historical air #why could the history of your society not just. be quietly casually better in this regard. is my personal preference. #but. anyway. a fun couple of opening grafs. #john m. ford #bookblogging

[nevinslibrary]

Make It So Friday

Oh, that was definitely different. It started in the present. Kirk and McCoy and then Kirk and Spock talking about a book that's the same name as the actual novel. Then, we get to read the novel along with those in the Enterprise and Kirk.

It's about Vrenn, a Klingon who isn't quite like most of the ones that were on TOS. He's wayy more of a thinker. And, that gets him a trip to Earth to pick up a Federation Ambassador who is also different. The novel (and novel within the novel) looked at, what is peace, how different cultures can be alike and different. In general it was a very very philosophical Star Trek novel. The most philosophical one I've ever read I think. Is it top of my list, and I'm glad I read it, as it was a super unique look at Klingons (before TNG got to them 🙂).

You may like this book If you Liked: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack, Captain to Captain by Greg Cox, or The Romulan War by Michael A. Martin

The Final Reflection by John M. Ford

#nmlRA #nevins memorial library #makeitsofriday #star trek #star trek novel #star trek novels #the original series #the final reflection #TOS #john m. ford #star trek the original series

[smaller-comfort]

Against Entropy - John M. Ford

The worm drives helically through the wood And does not know the dust left in the bore Once made the table integral and good; And suddenly the crystal hits the floor. Electrons find their paths in subtle ways, A massless eddy in a trail of smoke; The names of lovers, light of other days Perhaps you will not miss them. That's the joke. The universe winds down. That's how it's made. But memory is everything to lose; Although some of the colors have to fade, Do not believe you'll get the chance to choose. Regret, by definition, comes too late; Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

#poetry #john m. ford #Regret by definition comes too late #some of my fondness for this poem comes from frequenting the comments on Making Light back in the day and seeing it happen in real time #but it's also just a banger tbh

[dduane]

In any drafts of Dark Mirror, did the Enterprise's Cetacean Ops ever appear? I know it had already been mentioned both onscreen and in the TNG Technical Manual which you seem to have researched heavily from by the time the book was in process. Not actually sure how Delphines would get on with the Cetaceans of Earth origin who would likely be aboard ship at that point, just wondering if those interactions were ever considered.

Love your work, and also seeing you and Peter (and Neil) cameo in Ford's How Much For Just the Planet? as well!

I thought about it, but (possibly due to plot-timing and -emphasis considerations) it didn't happen.

The TNG Tech Manual was written by friends of mine, and while writing Dark Mirror I was particularly thinking about Rick Sternbach, who'd been drawing and painting spacegoing dolphins for as long as anybody can remember. :) The "Delphine" concept was a present for him.

Meanwhile, thanks for the kind words about my work! ...And yeah, to have appeared in How Much... was a high point for me (and definitely for Peter). It's very difficult to express how fabulous a writer Mike Ford was, and what a delight it was that he felt we needed to be included in that wildly funny and subversive book. He was absolutely one of the most gifted writers I've ever had the pleasure to know, and he's very much missed.

#How Much For Just The Planet #Star Trek: The Next Generation Tech Manual #Rick Sternbach #John M. Ford

[cakehorse]

"I am here," Chekov said. He was carrying a worn leather bag filled with hickory-shafted clubs and wore baggy plus-four trousers bloused above the ankles and a floppy red-plaid tam o'shanter with a huge crimson pompom.

How Much For Just the Planet by John M. Ford

Chekov showing up for a golf duel against the Klingons.

#How Much For Just the Planet #John M. Ford #star trek #tos #Pavel Chekov #books #currently reading #the clubs belong to Scotty and the outfit was forced on him due to Mishaps #me: golf bad. Montgomery Scott: ... me: golf is good now

[deepdarkspaceblog]

‘The Last Hot Time’ Is Criminal Fun

'The Last Hot Time' is the gangster urban fantasy you've been looking for. #fantasy #bookreview

The Last Hot Time (2000) by John M. Ford is an interesting venture into gritty urban fantasy. If you’re looking for magic, elves, crime, and Tommy guns, then this is the book for you. If you aren’t looking for those things, you should be. As Danny Holman approaches Chicago in the wee hours, he witnesses an attack that sends a car off the road. Without thinking Danny’s paramedic training takes…

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[williammarksommer]

The Lone Cowboy

The Lone Cowboy, an imagined artifact of Hollywood portraited by John Ford moves. This fixture of the depiction of the west has been a withstanding tradition across Monument Valley for years. Now in Contemporary America, the trained horse stands petrified on the edge of the cliff, so tourist can have themselves pictured as they were a part of these John Ford films.  

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