usta be, this only made me sad(ish) now it makes me actually cry...bastards really did shit can it all. Pretty much like the song, all in the name of budget and lack of balls.
Au revoir Shuttle. Your last job is as a trash hauler, bringing nearly three tons of trash back from the ISS, that seems fitting: "they say she's just a truck, but she's a truck that's aiming high"
I am so happy to find this online. My tapes were lost when I moved to Canada and I cant find them online anywhere. I remember listening to this as the news of the Challenger disaster went over the air. I did cry
There is a book out there by the name of "Fallen Angels". It's authors are Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn. Some of the lyrics of this song are used in that book, and I believe that thee emotion in this song is woven through about half of that book. It is set n a very near future where the "mundanes" have killed Sci-Fi and we're dieing in a "green" caused Ice age. In fact, a lot of filk is mentioned in that book as the sci-fi fans try to fight back.
@Brokenankh Ah. yeah. Actually, it's more the other way around. Fallen Angels has many slightly and more than slightly fictionalized real people in it. From both sci fi fandom, and the SCA. (Especially in and around Chicago, and the mid west.) Some of us have been around long enough to pick them out when we read it.
For example Jenny Trout... IS Leslie Fish. But she's the only just the easiest to pick out. (That... and the 'lyrics' attributed to her songs are Leslie's. )
@Brokenankh This is what is called 'Tuckerization'. Using a RL name, or even just the veiled personality/character of a RL friend/etc. as a character in a story.
(I should know, it's happened to me a couple times. It's one of the perils of living with a guy who makes his living as a sci-fi/fantasy author.)
Has anyone written a funeral dirge for the space programs demise? Budget cuts?!! While checks are written in red ink everyday to pad their bottomless pocket books. I haven't listen to my Minus Ten and Counting tape in years as it is old. But I think I remember a song called Legends..about empty launch pads. I remember Sputnik and I saw the first rocket launched from a tv set in the school lunch room. I cried at the many deaths, and rejoiced at our success. Now I cry in frustration and loss.
@LadyShesu You are lucky to have witnessed our greatest achievements. I am a child of 1980, and all we got was the Space Shuttle (actually the first thing I remember was the Challenger), and the demise of the pro-future technology (magnet rails, the Concorde, now the Shuttle).
Every civilization comes to an end. It seems as if we (= the western world) have crossed our zenith.
@LadyShesu Julia Ecklar's version of "The Legends" is part of the space celebration album "To Touch the Stars" and can be found at the Prometheus Music website (Google will turn up the site for you) - that's one of the 5 that can be downloaded freely, as well, though it seems you can stream all of them. The album is one of my favorites. :)
Minus Ten and Counting was one of the first Filk tapes that I bought. I still have that tape...and I'm scared to play it ... so thanks for uploading this.
Godspeed Apollo 1.
rkt739 2 weeks ago
where can I get this album?
Rahavin1 6 months ago
@Rahavin1 youtube. Or copies of copies of tapes if you have the right friends. It's long out of print, and legal troubles prevent re-printing.
hobbified 4 months ago
@hobbified as I find. too bad. Good music needs to stay open! Love this stuff...
-A deathmetal-head thrashing monster
Rahavin1 4 months ago
usta be, this only made me sad(ish) now it makes me actually cry...bastards really did shit can it all. Pretty much like the song, all in the name of budget and lack of balls.
GrigoriZhukov 7 months ago
Au revoir Shuttle. Your last job is as a trash hauler, bringing nearly three tons of trash back from the ISS, that seems fitting: "they say she's just a truck, but she's a truck that's aiming high"
po8crg 7 months ago
I am so happy to find this online. My tapes were lost when I moved to Canada and I cant find them online anywhere. I remember listening to this as the news of the Challenger disaster went over the air. I did cry
loralil 11 months ago
The song is older than the book.
But the song was not the inspiration for the book, as you postulated. Fandom was the inspiration for the book.
Wrenn00 1 year ago
There is a book out there by the name of "Fallen Angels". It's authors are Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn. Some of the lyrics of this song are used in that book, and I believe that thee emotion in this song is woven through about half of that book. It is set n a very near future where the "mundanes" have killed Sci-Fi and we're dieing in a "green" caused Ice age. In fact, a lot of filk is mentioned in that book as the sci-fi fans try to fight back.
Brokenankh 1 year ago 8
@Brokenankh Ah. yeah. Actually, it's more the other way around. Fallen Angels has many slightly and more than slightly fictionalized real people in it. From both sci fi fandom, and the SCA. (Especially in and around Chicago, and the mid west.) Some of us have been around long enough to pick them out when we read it.
For example Jenny Trout... IS Leslie Fish. But she's the only just the easiest to pick out. (That... and the 'lyrics' attributed to her songs are Leslie's. )
Wrenn00 1 year ago
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Wrenn00 1 year ago
@Wrenn00 I thought that the songs, and themes were older than the book, are you telling me that the book was older?
Brokenankh 1 year ago
@Wrenn00
From the Divine Intervention tape/CD, the song Fallen Angel is about the Enterprise from Star Trek III.
suspreena 1 year ago
@Brokenankh This is what is called 'Tuckerization'. Using a RL name, or even just the veiled personality/character of a RL friend/etc. as a character in a story.
(I should know, it's happened to me a couple times. It's one of the perils of living with a guy who makes his living as a sci-fi/fantasy author.)
Wrenn00 1 year ago
@Brokenankh turns out they were totally wrong about the solar neutrino problem though :)
hobbified 4 months ago
Has anyone written a funeral dirge for the space programs demise? Budget cuts?!! While checks are written in red ink everyday to pad their bottomless pocket books. I haven't listen to my Minus Ten and Counting tape in years as it is old. But I think I remember a song called Legends..about empty launch pads. I remember Sputnik and I saw the first rocket launched from a tv set in the school lunch room. I cried at the many deaths, and rejoiced at our success. Now I cry in frustration and loss.
LadyShesu 1 year ago 2
@LadyShesu You are lucky to have witnessed our greatest achievements. I am a child of 1980, and all we got was the Space Shuttle (actually the first thing I remember was the Challenger), and the demise of the pro-future technology (magnet rails, the Concorde, now the Shuttle).
Every civilization comes to an end. It seems as if we (= the western world) have crossed our zenith.
DocTomoe812 10 months ago
@LadyShesu Julia Ecklar's version of "The Legends" is part of the space celebration album "To Touch the Stars" and can be found at the Prometheus Music website (Google will turn up the site for you) - that's one of the 5 that can be downloaded freely, as well, though it seems you can stream all of them. The album is one of my favorites. :)
ladypoetess 10 months ago 4
This tends to make me cry a bit, likely because the bastards have thrown everything AND near space away in the name of 'budget cuts'
GrigoriZhukov 1 year ago
What a voice!
TheEndKing 1 year ago
Minus Ten and Counting was one of the first Filk tapes that I bought. I still have that tape...and I'm scared to play it ... so thanks for uploading this.
cthulee 2 years ago
Impressive.
doctorpsycho1960 2 years ago