Quote:I must admit, my original name choice for Rockhounds, Inc was "WGB Enterprises", but I forgot about it when I made the original posts....--
The crew in my concept are motivated, not by anything like "Cold War dick-swinging," but by Duane Elms' song "We're Going Back" or the lines near the end of Andre Norton's Star Man's Son (possibly the first science fiction I ever read; certainly the first to make an impression on me): "But above us those other worlds still hang, and still they beckon. And so is the promise still given."
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.