just drink of the atmosphere!
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Darn it, when I saw this thread I though it was going to be about drinking establishments. I mean, I like a nice country pub with a roaring fire and all that stuff
Ah, that's what I thought the other thread was also. Just for fun, then, let's start a thread for that!
What fictional pub/bar/inn/restaurant would you most like to be able to walk into?
Susan
EDIT: And tell us what work your choice is featured in, too!
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Susan
EDIT: from _Tales From the White Hart_ by Arthur C. Clarke
A smidgin (there are many more shorts in the book:
http://books.jayslair.com/acc_whitehart.html
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Anyway, as for fictional pub, I think it would have to be The Rookery on Balaia simply because the Unnkown Warrior is one hell of a hero.
Susan
Calvin's is not fictional, it is stranger than fiction.
In real life my husband went to the pub where the Inklings used to meet. He was so excited about seeing the place, but he was pretty disappointed. The management has changed in recent years and the pub has very much gone downhill, he said. It was quite sad.
(Featured in the various Callahan's stories by Spider Robinson.)
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just drink of the atmosphere!
Yeah, that's pretty exactly what I meant
Perhaps in your fictional pub of choice, no one ever gets drunk or obnoxious. Haven't read of one like that? Well, then, maybe we need to write one! *VBG*
Susan
The problem is that most fictional pubs are full of, well...mammals, to put it delicately. And the one's that are full of non-mammals aren't the kind of places that any sane being would want to visit anyway. Non-mammals go there for nefarious purposes, fun not usually being on the list.
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Since none of you are really well acquainted with them, trab is shorthand for transbeamer. A science-fiction transportation device I created for my WIP which is rather similar to the Star Trek "transporter" EXCEPT that it can only go between two of the devices, you cannot beam off to some location without a device available there to rematerialize you.
For this reason, the society in which this was invented transformed all the airports into Transbeamer Halls. Shorthand for Transbeamer Halls being "the trabs." Many a storyteller lines these halls, hoping to attract travelers to stop and listen for a while.
My WIP is set so that a couple of cynical men who happen to know each other meet up in the trabs and then wander over to a storyteller near the exit into the town who tells the inner story. The outer story is about the reactions of one of these cynics to the inner story. The third book will shift focus and there will only be one story, that of the cynic now on a quest to repeat the actions of his forebears as told to him by the storyteller...
Anyways, I've rambled on enough about this. Suffice it to say that the trabs are a very magnificent engineering feat, and I'd absolutely love to be able to spend more time in them than I actually do.
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I'd think that you'd want to have transbeamer hubs located more like metro/subway stations.
Turning someone into an energy mass and transporting them at the speed of light to be returned to being a physical mass is not efficient enough to be used for in-city transportation, they use high-powered EM fields for in-city travel. Faster than walking or driving, which, cars are no longer used and many people think of them as myth or as never even having existed. Of course, EM-based transportation isn't as fast as the trabs, but it is more efficient than them.
Look at it this way: a trab has to keep track of both the physical and energy-based characteristics of an individual. A trab ALSO needs to keep track of where they originated from and where they are going within cubic micrometers. In addition to all the data, which is in excess of several terabytes per traveler, these things have to do the actual conversion and transmitting to the recieving trab. On the recieving end, the process must be reversed.
Now would it make all that much sense to use such a means of travel for local transportation?
Airplanes are no longer used, so Airports are no longer needed. Airports filled enough space to be able to fit these monstrosities, so they just tore down the old structure, put up the new structure, and filled it with trabs.
But let's not take this topic too far off track.
By the way, if we open things up a bit...I'd like to be able to hang out in the central ecosphere of an unmanned Wraithbane class cruiser. That way, I'd also be able to walk other cool places
Sorry about that, but not sorry enough to leave things as they are.