Titanium Mike Saves The Day

This free sci-fi story by David D. Levine, available as a free audiobook at Starship Sofa, is played sort of backwards.

It starts with chapter 5, and goes back to chapter 1. But it all makes perfectly sense, in the end.

It talks of spacers, adventure, but most of all of the power of ideas. In that sense, it reminds me of an movie that didn't do too well at the box office, but that I found quite interesting: The Postman.

“Sweetie, do you know about Titanium Mike?”
Sophie didn’t reply, just shook her head slowly inside her helmet.
“Well then, looks like I need to fill in a few holes in your education.” She drew Sophie to herself, chestplate against chestplate, so the girl could feel her voice in her bones, not just hear it filtered through radio. “Titanium Mike is… well, he’s more a force of nature than a man, really. They say his father was Gravity and his mother was Vacuum.”
“Is he going to come and help us?”
Helen considered the question for a moment. “Well, he might - you never can tell where old Mike might show up. When Cassandra Station was coming apart, he stuck the two halves back together with spit. And he’s the one who stopped Ceres from spinning.”

• Starship Sofa Aural Delights No 84 David D. Levine

Titanium Mike Saves The Day goes from 33'15" to 70'15"

Author: Regular Expression, for AZ10.com ~ 24 May 2009

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