The Outstretched Shadow (the obsidian trilogy book 1) ch 9 through 14

CH 9

They didn't make it to the border.  They gotta find a place to take a stand against the wild hunt   kellen finds a stick and they climb up a ravine.  Kellen is able to bash up the stone dogs as they come up the ravinr to get them.  Additiomally, the unicorn can make their magic animation stop if he touches them with his horn.  So kellen keeps bashing and unicorn keeps unanimating and they are able to defeat the wild hunt.  Funniest thing, there's another wild hunt right behind them.  At first Kellen is feeling hopeless and defeated again.  But then he's filled with rage at his lying asshole Father.  By some miracle his rage powers him through to bash the hell out of the second pack of stone dogs.  With what strength he has left he rides the unicorn to the border and falls unconscious.  He wakes up being fed some fowl tasting liquid.

CH 10 

Kellen wakes up and all his wounds have healed.  He doesnt even have any scares.  there's a lady.  He's instantly attracted to this lady.  He immediately thinks to himself staying celebite for a year is going to be hard.

And of course he's horny for this lady cause its his sister.  All the best SciFi / Fantasy has that thing where the main character is horny for his sister before he finds out she's his sister.

I forget his sisters name, but it starts with Id so from now on I'm calling her Idaho.  Idaho is a wild mage.  She's well known as the wild mage healer lady that lives near the border.  That's how the unicorn ended up bringing Kellen here.

She tells him that their mother isn't dead.  At least she didn't die in the city like their father claims.  So she'll probably come back in chapter thirteen.  I guess she was a wild mage too and that's why the books found Idaho and Kellen.  Idaho was banished just like Kellen.  The way she escaped from the wild hunt is she wished she could fly.  She turned into a rare bird and the spruce for the magic was she had to find another bird to mate with before she was turned back into a person.

CH 11

Idaho is teaching Kellen more about wild magic.  Lesson 1 is soul stones, or whatever they're called.  You can save your life force in the stone and then you can do small spells with that magic rather than having to pay the unpredictable wild magic cost.

They talk about how if you get a bunch of people together they can share the cost of the magic.  This point is proven when a bunch of unicorns show up with and injured young unicorn.  They all share in the cost of the healing.  God talks to them and tells them what they need to do.  It's pretty cool.  She can't touch the unicorn because she's had sex.  So kellen has to do the touching while Idaho does the magic.

CH 12

Kellen and unicorn go to.pick blackberries.  A 

Centaur comes by and says these are His BlackBerry.  When kellen tells him he's Idahos brother he gets a lot less aggressive.  Unicorn comes back and delivers a real smooth "we got a problem here" and centaur gets to skooting.  Kellen helps his sister clean up a dirty spring pond.  Then they go swimming in a warm stream.  Then on the way back kelen asks about demons.  A Fawn shows up and is all NEVER SPEAK OF THEM!!!!

CH 13

This is a demon chapter.  Queen demin knows kellen was banished and lived to tell the tale.  Queen sends her son up world to sew seeds if discord.  He disguised himself as a rich human and finds Garen Min, who he knows is a spy for Kellen's dad.  He tells him about kellen and Idaho so dad will do something rash.

CH 14

They're doing work around the cabin.  Lots of Kellen/Idaho inter monologue about what it's been like to live together for a half year.  The jerk centaur comes back and demands to be healed as he's been stung by bees.  Idaho does so and they go to the centaur village as the cost for bully centaur is that he hauls an old womans cart for a year (a lot of wild magic cost seems to be a thing you do or don't do for a year) and Idaho's part in it is that she has to announce this to the centaur village council.  It's a whole fun scene.  Humans and centaurs and other magical creatures all living in town together in peace.  Something Kellens father tiled him was impossible. Then they take baths and eat dinner and the old man healer says Idaho and Kellen should stay for the winter.  Idaho says no and Kellen suspects has it has something to do with the wild magic association with demons his father spoke of.  Like somehow Idaho is tainted by the demons and doesn't wanna spread it to the villagers.

the outstretched shadow CH 5 through 8

CH 5 the courts of nightmare pg 97

There are demons that live underground.  There are also elves that live in the forest.  There's also dragons.  The queen demon has this idea to trick the elves and humansinto fighting and when the war is over, she'll just sweep over whoever wins cause they will be weak by then.

The demons get their magic power from the suffering of others.  If they torture someone it makes them magically stronger.  The queen Deming has tortured another demon to the point where all thatsleft is a gooey pouch that she drinks kinda like a Capri sun.  The prince demon has brought a mage into their inner sanctum cause the mage said he could get His hands on a dragon.  He did not so the prince demon is gonna torture him to death.

CH 6

Kellen is bored with his normal studies.  He wants to know what's beyond the city walls.  He goes to the main public library and doesn't really find anything useful.  So he gives wild magic again.  He ends up in the artists section of the city.  The magic directs him to clean up an old cistern.  He cleans it up and then fills it in.  He's done a good thing for the city.  In doing so,he makes friends with an old man who's a writer.  In fact, the very writer who kellens dad refused and burned his latest book.

CH 7

Kellen us excited to get a start on the day so he gets up early and dresses nice and heads down to breakfast.  He overhears some servants say that his new writer friend is dead.  He's too sad to eat now so he heads to school Early.  He has math class.  He likes math class.  He's always the first to arrive And the last to leave.

Switch viewpoint to Kellens dad.  He searches kwllwns room and finds the books.

Kellen has his math class intruded by a messenger giving him a summons to the mage council.  He feels doomed so he spends his last bit of freedom at the docks.  He goes to the council and his dad yells at him cause of the books.  He goes to jail for a while and his dad comes down and tells him the straight dope about wild magic.  It's the demons tool to lure mages down into their rhelm.  We know its the truth cause we know demons exist and they are horrible.  Kellen doesn't know shit, so he calls the truth his father gives him BS and tells him he'd much rather run the risk of dieing out in the world beyond the city walls than be his son.  Then His dad tells him banishment is a lie.  You don't really get to leave.  What you get is a one night head start before they ride out to find you and kill you. Dad also says something about Kellen being just as bad as his sister.  Kellen doesn't have any memory of having a sister.

CH 8

Kellen is really getting banished.  He's thrown out of the city when the night bells are ringing.  This would be a cool scene in a movie or TV show.  They give him bread and water and a thin cloak that labels him as a criminal so everyone he interacts with know he's done crime.

Kellen is feeling a bit hopeless.  There's some more description of what's gonna come kill him.  Its a thing called the wild hunt and its a golem that looks like a dog.  If it catches him, it's tear him apart real quick.

Kellen decides desperate times call for desperate measures.  So he does a wild magic spell asking the magic to get him outside of the city boundaries before morning.

A unicorn shows up.  There's a unicorn in this book that has a unicorn on the cover.  The unicorn shows up and tells him he's willing to help him case he's a virgin and the price for the unicorns help is that he has to stay that way for another year.  Kellen doesn't think this is gonna be a problem so he agrees immediately.  

He gets on the unicorn and they are running impossibly fast.  It's hard and painful just to hang on with the unicorn going this fast.  To make matters worse the unicorn isn't all that focused on staying on a trail or anything.  It's just running as fast as it can.  Kellen is getting whipped by branches real bad.  It has torn his criminal cloak to shreds.  He's fricking freezing cause no cloak and also the unicorn runs through a stream.

They stop for a bit.  Kellen offers some of his bread to the unicorn and it's like, Nah, you're gonna need alla that.  Then they're back to running.

why zebras don't get ulcers preface to CH 6

Preface

Lots of thanking people for their help.  Explanation that this book is about how this book is about how stress makes us more susceptible to certain  diseases.

CH 1 why don't zebras get ulcerz pg 1

This book is all about stress.  There are certain disorders where the body doesnt release the chemicals it should during stress and ut really sucks.  But theres lots of diseases that are made much worse because of stress.  We're gonna focus on some of those deseases chapter by chapter.

Ch 2 glands, gooseflesh and hormones. Pg 19

One of the four F's is sex.  That made me giggle.

The pituitary gland is important.  It secrets important hormones.  But it's not making those decisions, different parts of the brain send signals to the pituitary gland to have it secret the right hormones at the right time so our body has the ability to properly respond to stress.  Lots of science went into figuring out how that works and the folks that did it won a Nobel prize for it in 1976.

The adrenal gland does something similar.

CH 3 strokes, heart attacks and voodoo death pg 39

The heart is a bit of a one trick pony when it comes to stress.  Pump a lot of blood to the extremities so you can fight or flight or whatever.

CH 4 stress metabolism and liquidating your assets. Pg 53

The body does some fun stuff with energy when under stress.  It shuts down digestion and starts pulling fat and protein from non active muscles to use as energy for the muscles that are fighting for fighting or whatever.it also blocks insulin reception cause it wants all the energy it can get.  This is fine if you're glucose typical.  But if you're diabetic isucks super hard.

CH 5 ulcers colitis and the runs

I really enjoyed the part where they explain that diahrea is due to the large intestine evacuation asap without doing its primary job of reabsorbing the liquid.

Ulcers sound like they suck and I didn't get any sort of good idea as to what I should do about it.

CH 6 growth pg 80

Babies and children in general need to be touched.  Lack of touch causes stress, which results in lack of growth.  Interestingly the body does something weird.  It doesn't stop with the growth hormone as much as it has an anti growth hormone it secretes.  There's tons of accidental human evidence of this.  Then there's tons of experiments on animals to prove it as well.  If you have a baby, touch it tons.

The Outstretched Shadow (the obsidian trilogy book 1) ch 1 through 4

ch 1 in the city of golden bells pg 11

The main character is named Kellen.  He's a mage in training in a city run by mages.  It's safe and prosperous and generally a good place to live.  But its all very well regulated to the point of being oppressive.  Kellen is in the market and is just sorta bored with it.  Some Mage comes through and ruins everything by stopping traffic and making it annoying for everyone else.  So Kellen decides to go the low market.  Maybe he'll find something new there.  There's nothing new in mage city.  It's the same as it was five hundred years ago and will likely be the same five hundred years in the future.  In the low market Kellen finds  a fun old knife rester that has unicorn heads on the ends.  He's super duper looking forward to using it and getting disapproving looks from his stuffy cold oppressive father.

He also goes to a book seller hoping to find old copies of his mage textbooks.  His desire is two fold, first, if they're old and beat up, it's OK for him to write notes in the margins.  His dream would be to find books that some other student long ago wrote their one notes in the margins.  He is successful in this.  He also finds three books that seem kinda fancy, leather bound but thin.  Books of the sun, moon and stars.  They appear to be hand written magic books.  When he goes to pay for them the shop keep asks if he has kids.  The fancy books look like children's books to him.  Curious.

His dad is the HMIC.  They're very wealthy and they have a large house that his dad rarely goes to cause he's busy with work.  It a cold and clean and has a large staff to keep it that way.  His dad always has the servants make Kellen a cold bath in the hopes it will encourage him to learn the fire magic he needs to heat the water.  This far all Kellen has managed is to light some candles.  He eats all alone in silence at the scheduled meal time cause his dad is at work and even if he wasn't they would still eat in silence cause he doesn't tolerate talking during meal time.

Having his domestic affairs taken care if he goes to his dads library to see if he can find any reference to these fancy books he found.  He does, they are banned books as they are wild magic.  There's something about this magic and women that's unclear but hints that this oppressive society is also Male dominated.

He's trying to read the banned books but is finding it hard to find the magic in the banned magic books.  Thus far they seem mostly philosophy books.

Also, Kellen isn't happy.  He doesn't even know anyone that he thinks is happy.  Especially his A hole dad.

ch 2 dark lightning pg 38

This chapter is to make you aware that Kellen's dad is a dick.  A classist mesoginist jerk face.  His job (like most high level burocratix jobs) is mostly paper work.  Then his assistant comes to tell him that he needs to deal with an important thing.  A rich family is having sorcery problems.  Its their daughter.  She's got magic powers. The prevailing theory is women can't be mages cause they can't control it cause of all their emotions.  So after a brief tall with the family he uses his magic to burn away the parts of her brain that do magic.  He also removes all her memories of ever having done magic and replaces them with memories of doing music so she's got something to focus on.  He's very worried that if any memory is left she will come after him or his assistant or Kellen for revenge.

ch 3 The books of Wild Magic pg 54

Kellen has been reading the books of qild magic and seems to like it better than his usual magic studies.  He's being tutored by his dad's assistant and its a lot of memorizing and repeatedly writing symbols.  The assistant tells him a secret about the city mages that do civil service work, they take magical power from common folk and use it.  They never use their own power unless they absolutely have to.  This upsets Kellen and he runs away.  He decides to change into grubby clothes and head down to the docks hoping to get the straight truth of things from people that aren't part of the city's power structure.  He overhears a ship captain talking to a would be sailor.  The sailor is sad cause when he told his family he wanted to be a sailor they were all like go then, you're not part of our family anymore.  The captain explains this is a good thing.  The family could have said no, you have to stay and then the magic walls in the harbor that keep the bad weather out would have stopped their ship from leaving.  Kellen is all psyched to hear this as he has long suspected the powers that be stopped people from leaving the city.  Suspicion confirmed.

ch 4 Music in Chains 74

Kellens dad is running council meetings, which are mostly about oppressing the masses.  People come with some new thing they want to sell or art they want to perform and most are told no.  Mage city is all about keeping the status quo.

Kellen goes home and is all prepared to sneak in the garden door.  But he can't find the key.  He does wild magic to find the key.  He starts walking and realizes its the magic making him walk. It takes him to a court yard with a crying girl.  Her cat  is stuxk in a tree.  Kellen climbs the tree, gets the cat and falls down.  But he is miraculously unharmed.  Beneath his fallen body he finds a birds nest.  In said birds nest he finds his key.  

He let's himself back into the house.  His dad is there and yells at him for skipping out on his lesson with dad's assistant.  Then he yells more about how Kellen better shape up, cause he need a a man and his heart is set on you.  Kellen does his best Dawson impression and gives him the ole I don't want your life.

Persepolis Rising CH 1 through 17

Prologue page 10

Its thirty years in the future.  Duarte, the former martian that's now in charge of Laconia is trying to become immortal by injecting purified proto molecules into himself.

Chapter One: Drummer pg 22

Drummer is the head of the belt.  Technically she's the head of the transport guild.  Some ship did an a hole thing with the gates and flitted from one hole to another without clearance.  Do you give the OK top blow up the next ship that tries that shit?  No you levy fines against the two systems involved.  She's at a big fancy to do about a new space station opening up in Earth's orbit.  She calls Holden (can't wait to hear how Holden's constantly cancer ridden body is holding up thirty years in the future.)  To ask/tell him to go basically give the system the ship came from some shit.

Chapter Two: Bobbie pg 32

They're going to the system that's the source of the ship.  Alex is old and bald.  Bobbie is old and her body hurts all the time.  Clarissa Mao is old and I think she's dying.  Amos is old and he's trimmer than he used to be.  They talk about the sentence the trade federation has handed down to the colony.  Three years and no portal travel.  They only have food for six more months so this is basically a death sentence.  Also they're big on having guns.  So Holden is gonna go down there, tell them they're all gonna die and then they're gonna shoot him with their guns.

Chapter Three: Santiago Jilie Singh pg 42

Singh is a newly appointed captain in the Laconian navy.  He has been summoned to meet with High Consul/Admiral Duarte.  They talk about how Singh ratted out his old captain for not being strict enough.  Duarte instituted some harsher punishments and the old captain didn't enforce those new harsher punishments cause he thought they were too harsh.  He sounds like a good dude.  Singh sounds Like a follow the rules to the letter boot licking dhipshit.  That was a typo, but I like it.  D-hip shit.  For being as such, Duarte is giving him command of the new ship and tells him “We’ve been hidden away from the rest of humanity long enough. Time we showed them what we’ve been doing.”

That sounds ominous as fuck.

Chapter Four: Holden pg 52

Man, I was kinda hoping Bobbie was just gonna be the viewpoint for the Roci this book, but no, we gotra have a Holden Viewpoint or it wouldn't back an expanse book would it.

Holden goes to this settlement and tells them of the death sentence the union has bestowed upon them.  But there's a twist.  He also gives them the option to turn over the governor and he'll go to prison for these crimes.  They bring the governor strapped to a wheel borough.  

Chapter Five: Drummer pg 63

Drummer's job as president of the trade vederation is hard.

She doesn't like what Holden did and sends him a message saying that's not gonna work.

chapter six: holden pg 74

The crew is debating how they feel about Drummer's response to their actions.  Naomi tells Holden maybe it's time to retire to a beach on Titan.  Then the ship stops all of a sudden.  Nobody knows why.  This is bad.  Also the governor isn't in his cell anymore.  So really bad.

chapter seven: Bobbie   pg 84

They figure out their prisoner is in engineering and very food at space ship stuff.  They're gonna storm the castle.  Bobbie going in from behind via the hatch from outside thebship and Amos blowing up the interior door if it comes to that.  Bobbie makes her way in and for her efforts she's rewarded with a fire extinguisher to the head.  She recovers and ends up taking Houston out with an elbow to the chin.

Holden tells her he's seriously considering retirement and would Like her to be the new captain.  She gets a little emotional.

chapter eight: Singh    pg 95

Singh and his ship have joined up with an admiral on the super fancy ship.  The plan in to go through the ring gate, disable the station rail guns and take over Medina station.  Singh feels real good about this part of the plan.  His big problem is that when earth and mars come with their famcy new ships to take it back, they're going to have a lot more battle tested personnel.  Laconia hasn't had any actual fighting.  Barely any of their navy has actually been in a battle.  Admiral isn't worried about it.  Their new ship The Tempest will put anything the earthers or martians have to shame.

chapter nine: Bobbie    pg 109

Holden gives his retirement speech.  Largely everyone is cool with it.  When they get back to Medina, Naomi and Holden will get off and Bobbie is gonna bring on some hired hands.  Alex is pretty enfatic about it.  Bobbie has a talk with Amos to double check.  He's good, but he suggests Bobbie have a talk with Clarissa Mao.  They do, its good.  It's emotional cause not only is Holden leaving but they also have a very serious talk about Clarissa's end of life plans, something Bobbie is a bit shocked and disappointed that Holden never had this talk with Clarrisa.

chapter ten: Drummer    pg 119

There's a message coming from the long dormant laconian gate.  They come in peace.  Drummer is thinking the best thing to do is to make this Mars' problem.  Their old deserters are coming back and maybe Mars will want to do something about it so Drummer won't have to.

Chapter eleven: Bobbie  pg 129

Medina station sent the Roci a message.  Mandatory meeting to discuss the Laconia situation.  There are only two gun ships in the slow zone.   The Roci is gonna be the backup ship while the other ship takes point. A HUGE ship comes through the laconian ring gate.  But doesn't respond to hails.  The other gun ship gets a target lock and all of a sudden iT's just gone.  Near as they can tell it wasn't shot.  Nothing was fired from the Laconian ship.  Bobbie calls the station rail guns and tells them to open fire.

Chapter twelve: Holden  pg 140

The Laconians have some kind of magnet beam weapon that destroyed the other gun ship and made quick work of the railguns positioned on the station.  The trade union is hopelessly outmatched.  Immediate surrender is the only option.  They have taken over Medina station and the admiral gives a speech that amounts to join us or die.  Also.please tell Earth and Mars not to attack so we don't have to kill them.

chapter thirteen: Drummer   PG 152

Things are real bad.  Duarte has taken over the ring gates and at the Moment there's nothing they can do about it.  Avasarala is still alive and she shows up and says they gotta rally their forces on this side of the gate and she knows people and hints that she can communicate with people in the ring gate.

Chapter fourteen:   Singh   pg 163

Singh in the governor of Medina station now.  He's doing his best to get people in line.  He's finding it to be a trying task, but he's a dipshit so I suppose I like that he's having a hard time trying to force his authoritarian BS on the belters.  It gets interesting when the current better head of security Onni comes in and Singh tells him there's no job for him anymore.  Hoping to ingratiate himself with Singh he tells him that when they used their fancy new ship to shoot their fancy new magnet gun at the station to take care of the rail guns it had an interesting side effect.  It spewed gamma radiation out of the other side of the rings.  It took out four ships that were incoming.  Singh is intrigued by this news but does not care for Onni and tells him to fuck off.

Chapter fifteen: Bobbie pg 176

Bobbie is waiting in a long line to talk to an authority figure.  The Laconians have taken the Roci.  There are forms she can fill out to try and get her property or money in Louie of property back.  The crew gets drunk at a bar.  A bunch of angry belters go by in big coats.  Amos knows shit is going down.  Bobbie drags alex and Clarissa to the ground to avoid getting shot.  Amos stays standing cause he wants to watch the shooting happen.  Bullets start flying but we can't see them cause we are Bobbie who is on the floor trying not to Get shot.

Chapter sixteen:    Singh   pg 187

Singh was the target of the angry belters.  It didn't work out for them.  They got shot a bunch by laconian marines and died.  One Laconian died.  Singh finds this whole situation unacceptable so he's gonna institute some oppressive new stuff.  His head of security doesn't think this is a good idea.  Singh gives her.  Also, he's super.psyched about this thing where they can shoot their magnet ray at the station and it spews gamma radiation out all the portals.  It gives them a pretty easy way to defend the ring gates.  You send a ship, we zap the station, your ship gets destroyed by gamma radiation. 

Chapter seventeen:  Holden  pg 198

Holden does not care for being oppressed.  He and Naomi decide they gotta get the band back together and be part of the revolution.  Its a simple enough plan.  They talk to a lady as they watch the laconians building prison cells.  She says her ship has been comundeered and at the moment she and her crew are homeless.  Holden realizes this is super bad for his plan.   The crew won't be on the Roci.  They could be anywhere on Medina station and he has no idea where or how he would even start looking for them.  His best bad idea is to just go room to room till he finds them.  This strikes him as funny and he let's out an involuntary laugh.  “It’s just not very long ago I was thinking how small Medina felt.”

project hail mary CH 26 to the end

Ch 26 pg 428

Flashback to narrator being imprisoned by Stratt.  She's trying.to explain herself to him.  He really doesn't care.

Back in the present narrator is lonely.  He turns on the spextrazcope so he can look at Rocky's ship's exhaust trail.

He's gonna distract himself by working on the Beatles.  He opens one up and disaster.  It's not full of astrophage, its full of predator poop.

CH 27 pg 438

Narrator is shutting off all possible access to the astrophage to make sure the predator doesn't infect the fuel he needs to get home.  He floods the crew cabin with nitrogen to kill any predators that might be in there.  He does something similar with the tanks he has the nitrogen resistant predators in.  He's trying to figure out which one has the.leak.

Ch 28 pg 443

Narrator figures out the problem with the predators is that they can somehow make their way through xeonite.  Nbd, make sure all the predators are in metal boxes, problem solved.

Then narrator freaks out when he realizes Rocky has the Same problem only way worse cause his whole ship is made of xeonite and the predators are gonna eat up his whole fuel supply and he'll die and so will his whole planet.

Ch 29 pg 453

narrator does some cool science to figure out where Rocky's ship is.  it wasnt quick or easy but evwntually he makes it over thete.  he gets rocky back on the ship.  je tells Rocky that hes gonna starve to death.  rocky has an idea that maybe narrator can eat something from the astrophages home planet.  cant eat astrophage, way too hot.  maybe he can eat the predator.  rocky says . “I have twenty-two million kilograms of Taumoeba in fuel bays. How much you want, question?”

ch 30 pg 470

narrator is on Rocky's home planet of Erid.  its super cute, the chapter number is an Eridian number Vℓ.  i suppose hes been there for a long time cause he talks about how hard the first few years were.

he has been here 16 years.  but hes much older than his years due to both malnutrition (suicide missions usually dont include a large supply of multi vitamins) and the impact of Erid's much higher gravity.  he was able to live off of the predator for his caloric needs but Erid scientists were able to make vitamins so he wouldnt die.  then they were able to synthasize other food he can eat.  the best is they were able to do cloning and they cloned him and now he has meat.  it doesnt count as canabalism if its me.  he eats what he calls a Me burger every day. the scientists have been able to observe our sun.  they can see its back at full strength.  Rocky delivered the news and narrator cried and they're still best friends.  Rocky brings up the idea that maube theres other stars out there with planets with intelligent life.  maybe there will be a sequel where they go out on some kinda star trek.   The super cute ending is that narrator is teaching science to young Eridians.  hes a middle school teacher again.

project hail Mary CH 21 through 25

CH 21 pg 342

Flashback to awkward meeting where everyone talks about how they want to commit suicide when the mission is over.  Back to the present, Rocky is still alive.  They're doing experiments with asteophage and other microorganisms they find in the sample from the planet.  Trying to find the predator.  They do.

Flashback to prep for launch.  There's been an explosion.  Both the science people for the mission are dead.

Back to the ship, they're doing science that mimics the atmospheres of the planet they're near and Venus and the.planet in Rocky's solar system where the astrophage is reproducing.  They're gonna do some science and see if under those conditions the predator can feed and reproduce.

Ch 22 Pg 363

The lights have gone out.  Its pitch black.

Narrator makes his way to the control room where he finds one lit control panel and is able to turn on the backup battery power for life support systems so eh doesn't die.  He makes his way to the power generator and finds instead of it being full of astrophage like he expects its full of fowl smelling gunk.  The predator has some how made it into the fuel tanks and eaten and pooped out all the astrophage.  

Rocky is able to clean it out and put in enough astrophage to power the ship.  But not anywhere near enough to propel the ship.  If they can get back to Rocky's ship they can get all the astropage they need.  Narrator has an idea.  Use the small ships that are there to send word back to earth to get them back to Rocky's ship.

They do that.

CH 23  Pg 382

Flashback to talking an out the scientists that blew up.  Then telling narrator that he's the best replacement.

In the present they're setting up the beatles to take them back to Rocky's ship.  They're gonna accelerate for three hours and then coast for 11 days.  Narrator wants to use the gravity for that three hours to do science.   He does science with the Venus and the other planets atmosphere and he finds that the astrophage is alive and well.  Somehow the predator can't survive in those environments.  It sucks and Rocky is pissed.

Flash back to narrator telling Stratt to get someone else cause he doesn't wanna go on the mission.  Stratt says she doesn't care, he's going anyway.  She's gonna drug him and put him on the ship and by the time he wakes up from the coma it'll be too late.  But as an extra fuck you from Stratt to narrator she explains that she will additionally be giving him drugs that cause a temporary amnesia so he won't remember any of this.

Now I'm glad that the Venus experiment failed.  Maybe they can figure out a way to save Rocky's planet and everyone on earth can die.

Ch 24 pg 395

Narrator is bumbed that he got Shanghai'd but he's here so he's still gonna try yo save earth.  They figure out that the problem with the predator is the nitrogen.  It dies when nitrogen is introduced to its atmosphere.  Narrator has an idea, what if they can breed nitrogen resistant predators.  We have antibiotic resistant gonorrhea, why not predators that can handle nitrogen.  

They're done thrusting so they spin up the centrophuge so they can keep doing science.  They're a little successful with the nitrogen resistant predators.  They've got some that resistant to up to a 1.5 % nitrogen environment.

Ch 25 pg 409

We have huge success with the nitrogen resistant predators.  They've bred predators that are capable of living in up to 8% nitrogen.  We're at the point where its time to say goodbye.  But there's drama.  Narrator doesn't have enough food for the trip back.  Of course he doesn't, this was meant to be a one way trip.  He only has the amount of food he does cause two people died on the way here.  The problem is fixed by Rocky making narrator some extra fuel tanks so he can get home faster.

Now it's really time to say good bye.  It's very emotional.  Rocky is narrator's best friend and they are never going to see each other again.