{"id":637,"date":"2015-09-06T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2015-09-06T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:17:35","slug":"extract-far-from-the-spaceports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/09\/06\/extract-far-from-the-spaceports\/","title":{"rendered":"Extract – Far from the Spaceports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a bit of fun from the Work-in-Progress science fiction novel\u00a0Far From the Spaceports.\u00a0<\/em>Mitnash is one of the main characters, and he is talking to the lady running the guest house on the asteroid Bryher where he is staying:<\/p>\n

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\u201cGet away with you, Mr Mitnash. I\u2019ll wager that can\u2019t be done. Look now, were you wanting the chicken or the fish tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n

I hesitated, not being very sure. She laughed.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo point spending too long deciding. It\u2019s all guinea-pig anyway. I just prepare them a mite differently and you\u2019d never know they\u2019re the same animal. And it\u2019s what you\u2019ve been having everywhere else on Scilly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTruly?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo be sure. Tell me now, where did you eat when you arrived on St Mary\u2019s?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTaji\u2019s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what did you have? His Venusian azure duck wrap?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I nodded, and she carried on, \u201cSo did you really think he pays to ship real duck all the way out from Earth? Just to cook it and put it in a wrap? No, Mr Mitnash, all his menu is actually guinea-pig, but he\u2019s very good at disguising it. For just me here, I only need one male and half a dozen females. Taji has three males and thirty females. Or something like that. So now, would you like the chicken or the fish?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Look out for more extracts, and further news of Far from the Spaceports<\/em> over the next few weeks. All being well, it will be published this year…<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, here’s a recent NASA picture of the asteroid Ceres.<\/p>\n

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Recent image of Ceres from the Dawn probe, linked from NASA server<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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