It's Cirocco Jones, but it's not me

[ciroccoj]

This is SO COOL!!

I got an e-mail from someone who noticed my online name and thought I might be interested in the following website:

Fairest of the Fair: Gaea, the Mad Titan

And I'm squeeing like an AOL-teenybopper here, bcuz its so way cool!!11!!

It's dedicated to John Varley's Titan series (Titan, Wizard, Demon), which feature the character named Cirocco Jones. They're the books I happened to be reading ::counting back:: 15 years ago when I first found myself in need of an online name. I still go back and re-read them every few years, and every time, I tell myself I'm going to make myself a map of Gaea, because it's just that neat a world.

Picture a wheel. A really big, hollow wheel. A wheel so big, it can hold several ecosystems and millions of creatures inside it. That's Gaea.

Can't picture it? Go to the site. There's even little panoramic views of scenes in the books. Really nifty :)

Comments

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Cool! They are good books, although I read the for the first time even longer ago than 15 years....

[lizzie-omalley.livejournal.com]

Did you know that the "Ringworld" idea was originally Larry Niven's and was called Ringworld and was featured in, among other books the "Tales of the Known Universe"?

He is a very good author of hard core science fiction if you enjoy that kind of thing.

I thought I would share because when I was reading your discription, I was all "OMG that's Ringworld" and even more so when I saw the images at the site.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Did you know that the "Ringworld" idea was originally Larry Niven's
Yeah, that sounds fairly familiar. Hm. That should go on my reading To Do list.

[lizzie-omalley.livejournal.com]

I should have posted this in the previous one but I put it down to not having had enough coffee at the time.

http://www.larryniven.org/

[lizzie-omalley.livejournal.com]

Also *eyeroll* I had the title of the book or series I listed wrong... it is Tales of Known Space.

Lesson to be learned here: Never post before you have finshed your first cup of coffee.

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

Dang, I KNEW your username was familiar! I simply LOVED Titan and Wizard. I lost track of the series before Demon was published, though.

Amazon says they're coming out with a re-issue in 2006. :-)