Captain Gabriel and the Great Planetary Odyssey
I finally finished it! Gonna have it printed as a hard copy book and give it to my son on his 7th birthday on Feb. 7.
I also give this e-copy to the world (particularly ILP junkies) for free!

Enjoy!
Meno_ wrote:Gin, where can we buy it 'free'?
Meno_ wrote:Gin, where can we buy it 'free'?
MagsJ wrote:Gib! I am happy to share UK way. What are your future plans for the book?
gib wrote:Meno_ wrote:Gin, where can we buy it 'free'?
It's at the link I provided:
Captain Gabriel and the Great Planetary OdysseyMagsJ wrote:Gib! I am happy to share UK way. What are your future plans for the book?
Give it to my son as a birthday gift Feb 7. Beyond that, I plan to add some illustrations and maybe come out with a second edition in a year from now (or thereabouts). I'd also like to put it up on Kindle.
Maybe one day, I'll make a lot of money and be able to afford marketing. But without that, it's near impossible to sell at that scale.
MagsJ wrote:Meno_ wrote:Gin, where can we buy it 'free'?
Gin? are you dreaming of g&t o'clock Meno?
Gib! I am happy to share UK way. What are your future plans for the book?
gib wrote:Meno_ wrote:Gin, where can we buy it 'free'?
It's at the link I provided:
Captain Gabriel and the Great Planetary OdysseyMagsJ wrote:Gib! I am happy to share UK way. What are your future plans for the book?
Give it to my son as a birthday gift Feb 7. Beyond that, I plan to add some illustrations and maybe come out with a second edition in a year from now (or thereabouts). I'd also like to put it up on Kindle.
Maybe one day, I'll make a lot of money and be able to afford marketing. But without that, it's near impossible to sell at that scale.
MagsJ wrote:How did the present receiving go?
MagsJ wrote:Have you thought of self-publishing it on a self-publishing site? I know many that have done.. on here and in RL.
Meno_ wrote:Thanks, GIB , I did download it , and hope to read it this weekend.
Meno_ wrote:Read both versions left and right, There's only one version. it would take longer then
long to give justice, and both left and right were spectacularly coordinated with a tremendous energy and spent of incredible dedication.
Well, you know, I try.
But, let me go back from chapter 24, A Few Moldy Buns on the right side, I cried well almost.
I hope that was from busting a gut laughing.
Now reading stuff I kind of know about Your biographical sketches of divorce and custody issues. and I know your pain, and I do not know how much you read me, Very little. but to think back how my passes son was when he looked up on me with such gentle trusting eyes, is an enormous weight, that I can not near anymore to listen to the song ' The weight' at their last concert in San Francisco, and how this event synching with a vision of my wonderful son, with that song and now synching and sinking Starship and prior to that others a vast diagram of of branching out feelings, its just such an overbearing rush and the left side waa mostly as seem by him I am sure of that where as the right was you as you try mix both sides created in me a dizzying feeling of a nostalgic and nauseating nauseating feeling of ennui.
Well, you know, I try.
Its long, and and journey like is easy through the mind of parent/child, bittersweet, in my case unrecoverable and unsurpaasable regret and guilt and near insanity , built on tremendous dysfunction, a vision of Alice in wonderland, star trek, mixed with the regressive pathos of children playing with advanced instruments no longer understood , because their adults habe ceased to understand the vastness of the universe lime the German scientist Gertrude wanting to just stay on Uranus.
Glad you got something out of it.
This is merely first reading, but again chp 24 proved to me to be a devastating remainder I wish I have never read.
Huh? Why? It's just a chapter about a few moldy buns that get thrown out of the ship to lose some weight. What ever did you read into that chapter? Are you sure it was chapter 24?
Now You may begin to understand why my space ship has floundered about 8 years ago. Nope. I wrote his book, that I published after his direction to publish it, much more topical but equally sad, and at the time , when I edited it again and again, I could not take all the mistakes out because my tears prevented clarity .
You wrote your son a book?
I hope to fix things what remains of my family another son who has never said to me I love you dad as he meant it, two daughter andnaox And what? grand children. I live for my 3 year old grandson and my daughter needs me almost as.much as she does her husband, which is very burdensome, but everybody says he is so much as my lost son, that it inputess and endless compelling preoccupation.
What do you mean your lost son?
Thanks Gin, hope to correspond later, as I too plane for.an extended furlough for a.period of.study into the existentialist
Hope that works out for you.
In too am a traveler, this year I plan to go to Colorado, Boulder particularly, and maybe Europe again, Hungary, where I am from and maybe Phillippine again, where from my wife is from.
Meno_ wrote:Of. Course, just keeping my promise, and being honest. Thanks for a chance, a glimpse.
Later.
gib wrote:Meno_ wrote:Of. Course, just keeping my promise, and being honest. Thanks for a chance, a glimpse.
Later.
Later skater!
Meno_ wrote:gib wrote:Meno_ wrote:Of. Course, just keeping my promise, and being honest. Thanks for a chance, a glimpse.
Later.
Later skater!
I don't skate, but I do take my alligator for a daily walk.
There is only artificial ice here (california) , not like in Minnesota , where all 10,000 lakes make for impromptu ice rinks.
Hurray to the ice queen-snow princess.
I would like more control over my drinking, and even of I do need a sip now and then to enhance creativity, I give store to graduated control.
i really wish, you lots of luck with Your book, and there is a great deal of merit in it..
pilgrim-seeker_tom wrote:Gib ... I read a couple of chapters of your book and a page or two of the epilogue ... as you know I'm a big picture small minded old man ... details confuse me.
^ Hey, that's more than I can ask... I recommend Chapter 14.
For what it's worth here is my gut reaction:
1) A veritable Masterpiece ... a wholesome legacy that will serve many future generations of your progeny. Aw shucks, Pilgrim![]()
2) Subliminal prophetic or desirable outcomes embedded in your creative fantasies. You think my books prophetic?
2) The name Gabriel in your title ... generally understood to mean "messenger". Hmmm! Yes, I saw that connection too, but only as an after thought. At first, I was just trying to think of a cute little boy name that also sounded noble or high-stature (fit for a captain).
3) In a word ... a rather strange word popped into my head ... a word I never use ... topology. Hmmm!
gib wrote:^ Hey, that's more than I can ask... I recommend Chapter 14.
gib wrote: You think my books prophetic?
If only we could break free,
Of this crib and its bars surrounding me.
gib wrote:Topology is about mappings, isn't it? Maybe trilogy? Maybe you thought trilogy, and that became topology?
pilgrim-seeker_tom wrote:Nope ... topology is definitely the word ... after reading your last page the feeling was reinforced.
pilgrom-seeker_tom wrote:Emerging thoughts stemming from Chapter 14.
You tell us TG as a travel buddy doesn't come free ... and winning his assistance isn't easy.
For me ... the prison people live in ... with the same consequence as TG hanging on the wall unable to free himself ... is SCAP ... Social Constructs and their Attendant Proprieties.
The price of journeying with the help of TG beyond the boundaries of SCAP is a PhD from the University of Hard Knocks ... many enter ... few graduate.
MagsJ wrote:Meno_ wrote:Gin, where can we buy it 'free'?
Gin? are you dreaming of g&t o'clock Meno?
Gib! I am happy to share UK way. What are your future plans for the book?
gib wrote:Hmm... the alpha and the omega... the story begins and ends in the same way... a transition into and a transition out of (a dream), and it is done seamlessly so that the reader doesn't quite know when he has left the crib and when he as entered the cosmos (or visa-versa). <-- Maybe this seamless transition is the topology, a way of mapping the one world to the other. I mean, if Gabriel started his adventures saying: "Okay, here's how the story starts..." then it would be abrupt and we wouldn't be able to trace elements in this reality with elements in the other. But a fluid transition is a topology.
gib wrote:Well, Pilgrim, you read into it what you may. Hopefully it will inspire you and others.
Pilgrim, isn't SCAP and topography mutually descriptive in a sense?
Meno_ wrote:Some even believe that only our higher powers can direct that route to be taken
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