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A review by hank
The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May
2.0
A table of boys in a 9th grade English class have an assignment to create an idea for a sci-fi novel and it goes something like this....
Boy 1: "I liked Serenity, we should do something like that, spaceships+old west"
Boy 2: "Yeah! And dinosaurs, it should have dinosaurs!"
Boy 3: "Dinosaurs?! That's stupid, sci-fi does NOT have dinosaurs"
Boy 2: "It could...if we had time travel, yeah! All sci-fi has time travel we should do that!"
Boy 4: "Idiots! You need aliens if it s going to be sci-fi"
Boy 2: "Yeah! Aliens with mind control we NEED those!"
Boy 1: "But the aliens need to be able to fly or somebody needs to be able to fly"
Boy 2: "What about girls, we need girls in the book, like we need some sort of sporty chick"
Boy 3: "I think we need some girls to help us out with this idea"
Boy 1: "Ok, space ships, old west, sentient dinosaurs, aliens, time travel, a sporty chick, we good?"
Boy 2: "What kind of dinosaurs? I just want smart ones"
Boy 4: "All of our characters need something wrong with them so we can make them better or grow or whatever our teacher keeps saying"
Boy 1: "Ok, space ships, old west, merely smart dinosaurs, aliens, time travel, sporty chick and everyone has something wrong with them?"
Boy 2: "This is going to be the best novel EVER!"
Boy 3: "Is it lunch yet..."
Boom! And the novel was made.
Boy 1: "I liked Serenity, we should do something like that, spaceships+old west"
Boy 2: "Yeah! And dinosaurs, it should have dinosaurs!"
Boy 3: "Dinosaurs?! That's stupid, sci-fi does NOT have dinosaurs"
Boy 2: "It could...if we had time travel, yeah! All sci-fi has time travel we should do that!"
Boy 4: "Idiots! You need aliens if it s going to be sci-fi"
Boy 2: "Yeah! Aliens with mind control we NEED those!"
Boy 1: "But the aliens need to be able to fly or somebody needs to be able to fly"
Boy 2: "What about girls, we need girls in the book, like we need some sort of sporty chick"
Boy 3: "I think we need some girls to help us out with this idea"
Boy 1: "Ok, space ships, old west, sentient dinosaurs, aliens, time travel, a sporty chick, we good?"
Boy 2: "What kind of dinosaurs? I just want smart ones"
Boy 4: "All of our characters need something wrong with them so we can make them better or grow or whatever our teacher keeps saying"
Boy 1: "Ok, space ships, old west, merely smart dinosaurs, aliens, time travel, sporty chick and everyone has something wrong with them?"
Boy 2: "This is going to be the best novel EVER!"
Boy 3: "Is it lunch yet..."
Boom! And the novel was made.