Day 2

Include me out. Helsinki Polar Bear, photo by Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty Images, posted at theguardian.com:

Headline from newsmax.com: “123 Police Officers Killed in Line of Duty in 2023.” Down from 250 in ’22 and 710 in ‘21.

The Harvard president finally took the hint. Bring in another progressive.

Like many New Yorkers before him, Sean Hannity has moved to Florida.

I didn’t feel the NYC earthquake. I was on my morning walk at 5:45 AM. 1.7 on the Richter scale, it affected Astoria, Queens, the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island. Fortunately, there were no damages or injuries.

Abundant sunshine kept me out of the car at today’s session of the floating book shop. It was just warm enough. My thanks to the ladies who each bought a paperback in Russian, and to the gentleman who purchased a DVD in that language; and to the woman who overcompensated me for the massive The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir; and to Alice and Movie Buff, who donated a handful of marketable titles. I guess folks don’t know it’s National Science Fiction Day. According to goodreads.com, here are the all-time top ten:

Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
1984 by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Martian by Andy Weir

I’ve read the fourth, sixth and seventh. I would not place any among my favorites of any genre. I prefer screen sci-fi. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was adapted to the big screen as Blade Runner (1982). It is one of my all-time favorite films. I did not understand the sequel. Montage from Google Images:

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