Or even the flying car… I am travelling again, back to the island, and will it be Monday mid-day to Wednesday mid-day (thanks to time-zones) before I arrive. Oh, for that matter transmitter. I’m not much good at writing while on planes and trains, so it’s reading time.
So: forgive me for not making any cogent points about writing. I need to finish packing and be gone. Feel free to recommend the kind of books that suit travelling and extreme tiredness, as I don’t sleep on planes.
Mad Genius Club 
5 responses to “Where is my matter-transmitter?”
I made the mistake of reading Lost Horizons on a flight. Don’t do that. Although it’s not as bad of an error as a friend made reading the novel of Millennium on a trans-Atlantic flight. (That’s the one about how people from the future travel back in time and capture airline passengers.)
MomRed likes Ken Follett novels. DadRed preferred non fiction about the destination. I tended to start with non-fiction, then switch to fiction. I’d also write. I sleep on the outbound US to Europe leg, because the flight is always late, and I need to get the jet lag and caffeine headache over with before I hit the ground in FraPort or Schipol.
Dorthy Grant’s Going Ballistic? I mean, who wouldn’t want a fast not-quite-orbital flight half-way around the world? Just because hers got hit by a missile . . .
Metaphysics stopped it, to prevent our arguing about whether you really die and have an exact duplicate newborn on arrival.
Short stories? Raconteur press has bunches. Or for me I take something that I have read before so I can do a comfort reread.
Well, there is this fellow named Dave Freer who . . . oh, you mean by someone other than you. Okay, but he’s a real good writer.
My recommendation for any long airline flight is an e-reader, one you can stick in your pocket. Because it can hold a gazillion books in the space and weight of a single trade paperback. You can fill the things with plenty of cheap reads.
For example, I got a digital copy of Complete Novels of P.G. Wodehouse for $0.49 (US) at Amazon. Excellent travel reading, cheap. If one novel does not intrigue you, read another. (There are similar collections for Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens and more,)
For a fun, light read Holly Chism’s Light Up the Night is good. So is The Gangster’s Daughter.
I’d also go to Gutenberg dot Org and browse through that. All sorts of good stuff, free.