Sunday, May 19, 2024
Spaghettified monkey
I’ve just finished M. D. Thalmann’s novella Europa Affair, which is absolutely terrible. It ends on a synchronistically interesting note, though, as the character Peter, who is a genetically enhanced baboon, activates an app called Monkey-B-2, which results in his “spaghettification.” What exactly that means is not really clear, as the writing is so atrocious, but it obviously ties in with William Wright’s monkey named Spaghetti.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular posts
-
Following up on the idea that the pecked are no longer alone in their bodies , reader Ben Pratt has brought to my attention these remarks by... -
But Men shall remember Atlantis's name Come hell or high water! Sith both of them came, It rests unforgotten, and what we now tell Skill...
-
Mark your calendars, and in the meantime find something else to read. Note added: For those who have asked, nothing is wrong, and my decisi... -
In a comment on " Ascending to the black star ," Bill brought up a game called The Blue Prince , and so on a random whim I searche... -
My mention of a "Buddhist text" in my last post was probably misleading, making it sound like I was poring over Mahayana scriptur... -
Google is being weird again. Update: I published this post at 10:59 a.m. Exactly 47 minutes later, at 11:46, I photographed this logo, whic... -
It's been a while since I clicked for a randomly selected /x/ thread . I tried it today just in the spirit of "Is this thing on?... -
As I have mentioned before, I regularly have to create cloze tests for which write a brief article using a dozen or so of the vocabulary ite...
-
I had had a meeting scheduled for this afternoon, but the client called to ask if we could reschedule it to 7/22. Minutes later, I was readi...
-
As I was waking up, a rapid-fire series of voices said things like "Kill John Wayne!" "John Wayne shot!" "Shoot Joh...
3 comments:
My son was fascinated by black holes when he a little tyke, until he discovered that those venturing too near to one would be spahettified. The term refers to the tidal forces of black holes; that is the horizontal stretching and horizontal compression of objects nearing black holes into very long and thin shapes, like spaghetti.
With that in mind, this book sounds like it could slip into the "so bad it's good" category.
That’s my only context for spaghettification, too, so I don’t get how it was caused by a software app. It resulted time ceasing to exist for the baboon, and its malevolence being spread throughout the universe.
There are definitely “so bad it’s good” aspects to the book, but only if you have the stomach for extremely graphic gross-out violence.
I've just noticed that I should have written vertical stretching. In any case, how a software app could possibly generate such tidal forces is quite inconceivable, even within the framework of "out there" science fiction.
I have too many "too good it is good" books lined up on my to-read list to consider giving this one a go in the near future, but if the mood to read something outlandish and gross strikes me, I could give it a whirl. Truth is, I haven't read too many stories featuring genetically enhanced baboons, so there is that.
Post a Comment