Tonight, on a very special Musoc...(beacause of THIS). 
Fripp and Eno - Evening Star
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Kraftwerk - The Model
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#Musoc #Music #Fripp #Eno #Kraftwerk
Search for #Music on Fedi and you'll naturally find everything anyone has ever posted to that tag. Search for Musoc and you find only me, my own special unique tag. 
kitty.socialScotsBear 🏴 (@Uraael)My brain has been obsessed with finding a particular book for ****ing donkeys years, omg I can't even tell you how long.
I'd see the cover image but no title or author. A weird Foss-esque space-ship facing to the right against a red background. And I could remember only the slimmest detail from the story. Two guys, one who could "Activate" a combat mode with special claws and strength. They'd meet a woman in trouble (natch) because of a nigh-magical and very powerful alien ring. No names.
I've only bloody well found it!
Just had a nap there and as I was waking my brain flashed the cover, for like the millionth time, but *this time* dropped the word "Kraftwerk" next to it.
I bolted awake, banged Kraftwerk and Starship into a Search Engine (#Startpage) and one link later there was some other dude talking about the same book but he had more detail and WHAM one of the responses just laid it all out there: **Michael Kring** , **Space Mavericks** published in 1980!
Needless to say I have ebay copies hurtling at me as I type this. :neocat_laugh_tears:
But what's more, finding this revealed something I didn't know. There's a sequel, Children of the Night! Thank you, ebay! For the longest time I thought Space Mavericks was a solo outing!
And here we go with more facts I didn't know! Main character is called Fripp Enos. Simple sci-fi sounding name until you Search it and up pops Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, both big names in the early world of electronic music! OBVIOUSLY this explains the Kraftwerk reference - the ship was called "Kraftwerk 2". I'm a big fan of electronica, past and present. 🤘
Profound sense of relief here. My ADHD brain has been running this in the background for far too long. It feels *so so good* to have this finally recovered.
NOW, one last Search is running, a quadrilogy of books about a man who is cloned four times and each sent to a different world for an adventure. The only thing I know about THIS (apart from it being a recommended series from a woman who I think was maybe canadian, or the books were?) was he called himself Mr Caroll, a deliberate (and identity preserving) play on the Alice on Wonderland books. Also, the cloning process has an astonishingly high failure rate, something like one in thirty-two.
...Go! 😁
#Books #Scifi #MichaelKring #ChildhoodMemory (📎2)
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