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In this novel of the "Second Starfaring Age", Norman Spinrad has us on the starship Dragon Zephyr, a ship that instantaneously jumps from point to point in it's travels between star systems, covering several light years with each jump. The pilot of the ship (always a female) is an integral part of the jump circuit, and she enters a seemingly subjective state of...
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3.0 out of 5 stars All those phallic rocket ships
Well, this is a blast from the past. I was very surprised to see this listed as 'new in paperback', but then there does seem to be a swathe of classics being re-released.
Is this a classic? Not sure. It must be around 20 years old now, and certainly when first released it was regarded as prime new wave material - advetised in *Omni* no less! But of course age...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Different, But Interesting Nevertheless...,
Kevin Spoering (Buffalo, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews
In this novel of the "Second Starfaring Age", Norman Spinrad has us on the starship Dragon Zephyr, a ship that instantaneously jumps from point to point in it's travels between star systems, covering several light years with each jump. The pilot of the ship (always a female) is an integral part of the jump circuit, and she enters a seemingly subjective state of ecstasy during these jumps. Captain Genro Kane Gupta becomes infatuated with the pilot and this leads to a terrible conundrum. In addition, there are also many passengers on this starship, and they lead a life of luxury in a complicated cultural and erotic lifestyle. The emotional lives of the crewmen and passengers are meticulously detailed by Spinrad, this being a well done and positive aspect of the novel, lending support to a superbly structured plot.
My only criticism is that I felt that Spinrad used a convoluted sentence structure much of the time, that coupled with frequent use of arcane words really did make this novel a chore to read, at least for me. Overall though, well worth reading.
3.0 out of 5 stars All those phallic rocket ships,
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Well, this is a blast from the past. I was very surprised to see this listed as 'new in paperback', but then there does seem to be a swathe of classics being re-released.
Is this a classic? Not sure. It must be around 20 years old now, and certainly when first released it was regarded as prime new wave material - advetised in *Omni* no less! But of course age doesn't make it a classic.
It's certainly original: I can't think of any other tale in the genre predicated on starships propelled across space by the power of orgasm. But that doesn't mean this is a sex fantasy either. Spinrad makes the idea work, and casts the captain of his ship into a credible (at least within this premise) dilemma, and eventually a real bind ... with a very new wave lack-of-ending to boot.
The genre may have moved on from the needs to break through barriers of editorial conservatism that - in part - inspired books like this. In some ways 'The Void Captain's Tale' will seem terribly dated, and I have to say that I think other wirters have since tackled broadly similar ideas and one it better. So this re-release may be of more interest to people who are bona-fide fans of 70's sci-fi than to the general reader.
But if you want some idea of where the genre has come from, it's worth a look.
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic that stands the test of time,
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Dragon Zephyr Void Captain Genro Kane Gupta delivers goods and passengers to Estrella Bonita. During a stop Genro meets beautiful Dominique Alia Wu. The woman is a shocker because she is a jump pilot. Everyone knows that jump pilots are physically wasted, as they are the keys to interstellar jumps that each time kills them a little more. This makes Dominique an enigma.
Dominique asks Genro to jump blind. His failing to set the proper navigational mix will free her so that she lands in eternal ecstasy inside the Void. Fascinated by her, he leans towards neglecting his duty to his crew, passengers and himself because no one knows what will happen if a ship jumps blind.
Though at times the use of "modern vernacular" slows down the story line because the reader needs time to interpret, THE VOID CAPTAIN'S TALE remains a strong science fiction novel. The theme compares sexual prowess with power and the hold that sexual needs have on humans (Freud must have been a passenger on the Dragon Zephyr). The tale is different, but works on several levels because readers can feel the magnetic tension between the Void Captain and the Void Pilot. First released in the 1980s Norman Spinrad's novel still spins quite a tale...
3.0 out of 5 stars Good read, haunting story, sexually explicit,
Kevin W. Parker (Greenbelt, MD) - See all my reviews
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In an undefinedly distant future, humankind navigates to the stars using alien "Jump" technology aboard each Void Ship, which technology must be controlled by a Pilot, who must be female and who experiences orgasmic ecstasy with each Jump. The ship's captain, ostensibly in charge, is at the mercy of the Pilot.
Our protagonist is Genro Kane Gupta, Void Captain of the Dragon Zephyr. The events of the story are kicked off when he encounters an attractive woman enroute to his ship, a woman whom to his surprise turns out to be Jump Pilot Dominique Alia Wu-surprise because Pilots tend to be wasted, emaciated creatures who live only for their next Jump. He becomes infatuated with her, haunted by the thought of the Jump ecstasy forever denied him, and neglects his duty to his passengers (which includes participating in the sexually charged social rituals used to distract them from the long voyage). And Dominique has a request for him: in his responsibility as Captain, neglect to set the navigation matrix so that the ship Jumps Blind. She believes it will free her soul to join the Void in permanent ecstasy, and of course she doesn't care what happens to the ship. Will he do it? Well, that would be telling.
One of the great aspects of science fiction is that it can put people into situations they would not encounter out of science fiction, and this is an example of that. Spinrad completes a tour-de-force with a masterful futuristic patois that is a hodgepodge of today's major languages and as such can be followed with some slight strain by the attentive reader.
A good read and a haunting story, though not for those who are easily offended by sexual situations.
3.0 out of 5 stars Sci-fi goes sexual,
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This review is from: VOID CAPTAIN'S TALE (Mass Market Paperback)
This being the first Spinrad book I've read, I must say that his themes seem refreshingly different from most scifi-authors: The Void Captain's Tale is mainly about sexuality and its power over us human beings. The traditional, coldly rational scifi attitude is visible in the writing style: this is an objective, non-emotional account of some rude and primitive incidences. Spinrad's ideas are certainly worth considering, so what he lacks is textual appeal. As a storyteller, he doesn't show much gift.
Decide for yourselves. If you like good stories, you need not bother. If you like deep thoughts (and you're not a stranger to the scifi environment), go ahead and read this.
4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth the effort,
Mitchell Glodek (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
I have to admit that when I first started Spinrad's novel I found the tone and the use of so many foriegn words pretentious and irritating. However, a third or half way through, I was hooked; Spinrad's description of the human relationship that develops between the captain and the unique pilot, and of the tension the captain feels between his duty and his obsessive lust for the transcendent experience the pilot opens his eyes too, are compelling. Spinrad creates a strange alien setting, but uses it to describe emotions and dilemmas that are timeless and universal, with which most readers should be able to identify.
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Charles Wesley Hunston, Jr., age 90, of Carrollton passed away Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, in Great Trail Care Center.
Born Nov. 26, 1922, in East Palestine, he was a son of Charles Wesley and Eliza Jane (Young) Hunston.
He had resided in Carrollton since 1988, coming from Minerva. He was a Marine veteran of World War II and a member of Minerva Eagles. He enjoyed hunting and fishing. He worked for Hercules in the Canton office.
He is survived by two sons, Tim (Jean) Hunston and Terry Michael Hunston, both of Minerva; a sister, Mabel Molen of Minerva; one grandchild, Amy (Brad) Hooser of Minerva; and two great grandchildren, Avery Hooser and Carys Hooser.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Leona Agnes Tack, whom he married June 27, 1945, and who passed away Jan. 26, 2009; a daughter, Theresa Ann Hunston; a grandson, Todd Hunston; a brother, Donald Hunston; and a sister, Ruth Barclay.
A funeral service will be held Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 1 p.m. in Allmon-Dugger-Cotton Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Westview Cemetery. Calling hours will be one hour prior to time of service.
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The day will come when Israel Burns for the atrocities they have committed. The Holocaust? what about the World Wars both of them The Jews(Rothschilds) the ones who started them and profited from it causing massive debt to all countries involved and profiteering from it. Who are the real terrorists think about it.edit on 21-4-2011 by XRaDiiX because: (no reason given)
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Well for one there there not using international citizens as target practice and two there firing warning shots, which is what all Navy's do. They could be fishing illegally or in restricted waters. I don''t see anything wrong with there actions.
The Israelis are every bit as deserving of basic human rights - including the right to LIVE - as the Palestinians. But because you "don't like them" I suppose it's OK to wish that they are all killed. The duplicitous nature of Jew bashers never ceases to amaze me.


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For the past year, he's stayed firm at the center of the controversial debate over changing the team's name amid cries of racism. But on Wednesday, the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office handed down a big blow, eliminating the team's trademark because it is "disparaging to Native Americans."
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Sample-crazed producer Gregg Gillis talks about his forthcoming collaborative EP with excitable hip-hop vet Freeway, Broken Ankles, and why he thinks the internet isn't quite as bad for new artists as David Byrne would have you believe.
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If you've completely lost your shit to one of Girl Talk's overwhelming sample-collage albums only to subsequently shelve it for the rarest of occasions, don't feel so bad. Turns out the guy who made them has pretty much done the same exact thing. Referring to his party-crashing trilogy of Night Ripper, Feed the Animals, and All Day, Gregg Gillis admits: "I don't really just throw them on myself, but I do reference them a lot. Sometimes I have a hard time remembering exactly the way something went on an album, so I find myself going on YouTube. It's kind of embarrassing."
And yet, for all the concerns about how the Girl Talk project would (or would not) hold up with age, 2014 is looking a lot like the kind of world Gillis envisioned back in 2006 on Night Ripper. Obviously, there were people who found space for both Neutral Milk Hotel and Ying Yang Twins then, but they were rarely, if ever, part of the same conversation. Nowadays, any indie band that doesn't incorporate elements of pop, hip-hop, or R&B into their sound tends to be seen as hopelessly puritanical.
Meanwhile, most artists now rely on record sales about as much as Gillis does, which is to say, not at all. In fact, though no one has ever paid a dime for a Girl Talk record, a recent study showed that 2010's All Day actually helped other artists make money. Moreover, many DJ/producers can not only play rock festivals at this point, they can often headline them for a highly lucrative fee. That fact isn't lost on Gillis, especially after a startling New Yorker piece from last year revealed how much bigtime club gigs in Las Vegas actually pay. "I'm in a weird point because I feel like I'm in that conversation at times, but otherwise I feel so different from that," says Gillis. "I do play Vegas and get offers where the money is good, but I don't know if it's best for the way I want to present this."
To some extent, Gillis has taken the opportunity to kick up his heels a bit. He toured far less in 2013 than in years past and spent a lot of time hanging with his "friends with real jobs" in his hometown of Pittsburgh, where they may hit a TGI Friday's in the suburbs or see a Steelers-jersey-filled house show for "some weirdo band." His day-to-day consists of waking up "in the afternoon, checking WorldStar and email, and then just working on tunes."
Some of those tracks will make up his upcoming collaborative EP with Philadelphia firebrand Freeway, Broken Ankles, due out April 8 via mixtape hub DatPiff. (The release, which Gillis considers "the next Girl Talk album," also features guest shots from Waka Flocka Flame, Young Chris, and Jadakiss.) He regards his Keystone State counterpart as a "legend," and goes on to discuss how Jim Jones changed his life, Pittsburgh's current status a hip-hop hotbed, and his goals in uniting his aesthetic with an underground, not-quite-star like Freeway: "I'm sure a ton of Freeway fans have no idea who Girl Talk is and a ton of Girl Talk fans have no idea who Freeway is—my goal is to bridge that gap."
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Pitchfork: Did you reach out to Freeway for this project or vice versa?
Gregg Gillis: I made the first move. I had 70 beats ready to go. A lot of them were like a modern take on soul beats, which I've always loved, and those sounds are classic Freeway. He has this whole history of starting with Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella and moving to Rhymesayers, but at no point has he stopped doing his thing. He's been extremely consistent, but still has evolved on his own path, which is something I admire in any musician. I always like the people who keep moving forward, but kind of stay in their own lane.
Pitchfork: How did you and Freeway get along initially?
GG: It started off a little stiff. I knew he had seen YouTube videos of me performing and he knew the general gist of it. Then finally we were on Rock the Bells together, and when he saw the show, I think it finally clicked. It took a little while for us to gel. This was not a "he goes to the studio and raps over my song" sort of thing. This was two months of putting a ton of stuff together. I hope you hear it in the release.
Watch Girl Talk and Freeway perform "Tolerated" at a Brooklyn show last year:
Pitchfork: Were there any moments where you caught yourself playing up your hip-hop knowledge to impress Freeway?
GG: It's easy to forget, after spending a lot of time with him in the studio and just listening to him talk, that he's a legend. I'm kind of geeking out, like, "Whoa, I'm in the studio with Freeway." I've never written a lyric in my life, and he writes in his head. It's all right there on the spot, and it's always good. But there were a few times where I felt like the delivery could be changed, or maybe a syllable could be different, and I felt like a complete insane asshole on the first day, trying to say something to Freeway. But by the end it got comfortable. I would talk to my high school friends and be like, "I just suggested how to do an ad-lib to Freeway."
Pitchfork: Was there any point where he said, "I can't really rap over this"?
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GG: I did one beat, like, 10 years ago, for a group in Pittsburgh. The only other thing other than that was the Jim Jones [track "Believe in Magic" for Pitchfork.tv's "Selector"]. That was influential. It was a wild night. It turned into us being in the studio for five or six hours, and the ad-lib part was absolutely triumphant. He got in the booth and was running around and I'm pretty sure he was drinking something and smoking something else. I have no idea what was even in the rotation at that point in the night, but he was absolutely losing it. The ad-libs just come to him. The crew in the studio that night was wowed.
Pitchfork: When Night Ripper dropped, some people still held assumptions about pop and hip-hop and indie rock having completely separate fan bases. But now, it's fairly obvious that everything is fair game. Do you find that more intimidating as an artist, or freeing in a way?
GG: It's a positive thing. Though it does make things a little more complicated in terms of the purpose of doing this. Prior to Night Ripper, when I would play pop music at underground shows, it was offensive to some people. I wasn't doing it to piss people off: I just didn't believe in those strong divisions that you're supposed to listen to this or that. But as that idea gets more accessible, it's not as offensive to people; the electronic music underground is just as big as the mainstream. In Pittsburgh, they don't necessarily play Tiesto on the radio, but that music is the biggest music in the world right now. It has been bizarre with the whole EDM explosion and how that fits into what I'm doing, but for me it's always been the musical idea first before any conceptual thing. So even as EDM happens, I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.
Pitchfork: You were the only Pittsburgh artist to break on a national level since maybe Rusted Root, so how does it feel now that Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller have put a much bigger spotlight on your city?
GG: It's been cool because I've been supporting those guys for a while, and I remember when Wiz Khalifa first came on the radio here, around 2005. I went to a show of his and I had a burnt copy of Night Ripper before it came out—I met him there and gave him that copy. I played a few shows with him before things really took off. They've got Rostrum Records, which is a Pittsburgh-based label, and they all went to the same high school, Taylor Allderdice. I feel like the perception of Pittsburgh has definitely changed nationally based on Wiz and Mac Miller. Those guys are both not in any way manufactured by the majors or anything like that. They were doing local shows at the Shadow Lounge.
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Pitchfork: David Byrne recently went on the attack against Spotify and the internet as a whole for "sucking the creative content out of the world" and making it nearly impossible for artists to earn a living. Do you think Girl Talk's success proves him wrong?
GG: I'd be curious about the amount of independent bands that lived off of music in 1998 versus 2013. A lot of my friends who came up in a DIY way live on music now, and I don't think they would've had an avenue to have that fan base prior to the internet. There are now bands that get no mainstream exposure and still play at arenas in Tennessee. The industry side of things has been exposed. In the 90s, it was so hard to understand everything that was going on. You just had a vague understanding of where a band fit in, and who was popular. Now, people have a good understanding of that, and they're giving new bands a shot.
Obviously for my project in particular, people think, "Oh yeah, that guy cuts up pop music and it's popular—end of story." Like it's that easy. But for me, this came from a place of being influenced by Negativland and John Oswald and Kid606. I can honestly say I did this for six years and I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic. Prior to Night Ripper, no one gambled on this. I burned maybe 300 CDs and sent them out to labels and DJs and everything, and I heard back from one person. Then it turned into this thing that took off. I'm not the only one; there's a lot of examples of that, which is really exciting.
Pitchfork: Do you still worry about lawsuits?
GG: Yeah, but I don't lose sleep over it. And I do believe in what I'm doing, so "worry" isn't an accurate term. I'm confident in what I'm doing and believe it should be legal if it's transformative and comes in its own entity and doesn't negatively impact the sales of the source materials. It's always a possibility, but I feel like I've always tried to not let that influence me. If you're going to do this, you've got to go full-on. There's no half-assing it.
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best use of the work done on the ground. It is essential to achieve:
2. A take off position close to the bar so that the body is raised steeply with an angle of approach acute enough to permit a powerful free leg swing (Fig. 5).
3. A lifting of the body straight into the air without turning in towards
the bar at take off in anticipation of least to horizontal and hold the
layout and clearance (Fig. 6).
A good surface for take off, heel spikes and a well padded area for landing will help you in your training. Press for improvement in these facilities.
Developing the techniques
Approach and take off
Train off a 5 stride approach, starting with the take off foot and practice a straight jump over the bar. Jump straight and high, swing the leading leg and both arms powerfully and land on the take off foot so that the line of approach, the jump and the landing are all in line. Straight jumps of this sort can be the basis of all your training.
Accelerate and lengthen each stride so that the low hip position and
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Layout and clearance
A straddle roll technique is very efficient. There is a tenancy to rotate
too much on the ground but if you do your straight jump practices you
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jumper will get his right arm and head over the bar first, followed by
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2. Continuous hopping 6 x 50 each leg.
3. Six jumps starting with the bar 5 inches below best height and increasing the height of the bar by 1 inch after each successful jump.
4. Pyramid lifts, using a short squat with the weights in a squat rack.
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