Comments on: Win a Copy of Grease Monkey!

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:34:39 +0000

Librarian and blacksmith.

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Grease Monkey Contest Winner » Comics Worth Reading — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:59:57 +0000

[...] winner of the contest to win a copy of Grease Monkey is Eric! His role in our future society will be to invent a way for sound to travel in space so we can hear [...]

By: Kat Kan

Kat Kan — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:20:51 +0000

I AM a librarian and have been for a LOOOOONG time! I also own the hardcover of Grease Monkey and reviewed it when it was first published! Yes, I love this book. Oh, and I’d be promoting reading by starting up book clubs (which I do at my school). No sitting in the library waiting for people to come in for me!

By: Micah B

Micah B — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:53:43 +0000

@Micah: Dang straight! I’ve only met a few and never really come to actually know one!

By: dana L.

dana L. — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:47:02 +0000

I will be mutation specialist – demographics and analysis.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:20:03 +0000

Based on the science fiction I’ve read/watched recently… I’d be the guy who’s infected first. I’d be the person secluded somewhere on the ship doing a nonspecific action placed only on the ship for the sole purpose of being infected.

Don’t deny it. All space missions end with a foreign virus infecting one of the members and compromising the entire mission.

By: Caporushes

Caporushes — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:38:49 +0000

Paintin’ the space murals on the inside of the ship, probably.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:56:59 +0000

I always figured I’d be some kind of engineering or scientific support. Of course, “Engineering” in science fiction means “keeps the engines running” and not “builds roads and brideges”, so I’m not sure how much help I’d be there.

So: scientific support. You know those guys on the away teams with the laser drills? When they come back with some kind of interesting sample, I’d be the guy staying up until 4 in the morning going over sensor logs so they can go back the next day and drill up *more* of them.

Or if that doesn’t work, I could get Space Madness and hang out with ShadZ.

By: Marty Yohn

Marty Yohn — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:09:11 +0000

Cooped up on a space station can get boring without entertainment. I’d be the guy who keeps all the video game/Guitar Hero holosuites up and running – our future slackers need SOMETHING to do.

By: ShadZ

ShadZ — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:30:00 +0000

I want to be the guy who come down with Space Madness! “They think I’m crazy. But I know better. It is not I who am crazy. It is I who am MAD!!”

By: Drew Thomas

Drew Thomas — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:18:57 +0000

I would be the librarian! Even in the future people will want to read and need to read. I would have a complete set of ‘How To… For a Spaceship’ and would stock the filthiest and pulpiest fiction from Earth.

Also, Grease Monkey is great! Whoever wins will be very, very happy.

By: Argo Plummer

Argo Plummer — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:41:45 +0000

I’d be the historian / sociologist–you know the role that was always played by a hot chick on the original Star Trek. She would inevitably either fall for Captain Kirk or be held captive by the otherworldly bad guy. Doesn’t do much for my male ego, but I do think it would be very cool job to have–the historian /sociologist–not the pining over the captain / hostage role.

By: hardtravelinghero

hardtravelinghero — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:30:16 +0000

I’d be the space pervert. My job would be to “explore” alien life forms as Captain Kirk might. Remember, when it’s Arcturian, it doesn’t matter if it’s female.

How is this contributing to space society? Public relations?

By: Micah

Micah — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:03:03 +0000

@Johanna, No I’ve not. But Now I think I will.
@Micah B, There’s only a few of us, we gotta rock together.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:24:11 +0000

Free book? I’m in!

I would be the guy who invents a new form of atmosphere that would fill the emptiness of space, so that there could finally be sound in outer space. Far too many space station explosions go unheard!

By: DeBT

DeBT — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:34:52 +0000

Like Chris Howard, I’m not entering the contest, but acknowledging your enthusiasm for spreading wider knowledge of this unknown gem. Sometimes its the less advertised works that wind up being worthy of our attention.

Whoever wins this book is in for a treat. This, and V for Vendetta and Planet Ladder are the only library books I’ve read that I’ve actually gone out to get my own copies.

Also, in regards to James Schee, one of the love interests in Grease Monkey IS a librarian, and she’s BORED at her job because hardly anybody bothers to borrow anything. Things perk up when she notices one of the patrons intentionally leaving Sci-fi books on the shelves to “liven up the inventory”.

Since I studied how to be a librarian, so I wouldn’t have to face the embarassment of asking for help, I could apply for the librarian position in Space, save for one niggling detail – I hate working in front of people. I’d probably do better behind the scenes, inputing the latest entries in the database, putting on barcodes, magnetic strips, and weeding old magazines & newspapers.

By: Mr.SilverAge

Mr.SilverAge — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:21:00 +0000

Hi Johanna! I saw your contest and couldn’t resist. I’ve read Space Cabby stories, so I know how dangerous it can be out there. So I’d want to stay at the base. I’d sign up to grind the edges of the fins to keep them razor sharp so the ship can zip through the, um, vacuum of space. Yeah, that’s it.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 10:50:51 +0000

Hooper, you’ve reminded me of reading 50s sci-fi where they talked about “slipstick jockeys”, referring to slide rules long before computers and “hackers”. Every generation has its own slang.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:47:25 +0000

Data entry, until I messed something up and get kicked out. I’d then be shuffled onto manual labor like space lift driver, until I’d hit something. Get kicked out. I’d eventually land on space chimp keeper. Ya… space monkey poo…

By: Hooper Triplett

Hooper Triplett — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:56:39 +0000

Will there still be pencil-pushers in the future? Or will it be stylus-slingers? Thumb-thumpers?