Re: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi

On 5/24/25 08:33, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 23 May 2025 20:51:31 +0100, Robert Carnegie
<rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 07/05/2025 14:39, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:

On 5/6/2025 11:41 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:

On 5/5/25 16:20, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Starter Villain" by John Scalzi
      https://www.amazon.com/Starter-Villain-John-Scalzi/dp/1250879396/

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I listened to it while doing my organlegger job, driving from Boulder
Creek to Stanford and back, or BC to San Francisco and back, or BC to
Sacramento and back. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Lots of interesting
twists. I can recommend it.
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I can't comment on the printing, binding, or covers since those don't
really come across well in audio format. But the narration was top notch!

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I find myself wondering why Boulder Creek is such a prolific source of
detached organs. Is it connected to the (distinctly sketchy) Joe's Bar?

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Dave lives in BC; I suspect the runs are between organ banks and the local
hospitals.

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Query "organ banks".  I think medicine in
2025 still uses relatively fresh organs,
not warehoused.  Maybe I'm not thinking
widely enough about what is an organ;
I suppose that blood, bone, maybe skin
can be stored long enough for a depository
to be practical?

 Brief Bing research shows that this topic is hard to research. Even
/"organ bank" wiki/ (quotes, but not backslashes, included) brings up,
as its first entry, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation>, a
page which does not contain "organ bank".
 Apparently, the term is used for facilities that receive the organ and
keep it useable long enough to be used. Which, as you suspect, may not
be very long.
 Before the FDIC, the same could have been said about bank deposits.
 

Or are we talking about e.g. chicken wings
which may be provided by courier, but not
to birds in need of veterinary assistance?

 Probably not.

Real present day organ banks would be very expensive to run as
they would require, terminal patients keep alive by whatever means
necessary to keep those organs fresh up to the last minute.
bliss