Reddit reviews The Ayes of Texas

Here's an old SciFi book about doing just that!

Great fictional story featuring the Mighty T.

The Ayes of Texas by Daniel daCruz.

This book is a great read and brings back really fantastic memories for me.

When I was 13 I was on a plane and the guy next to me was reading this book. We had a good discussion about it. I told my mom how much I wanted to get a copy of it to read.

A couple of weeks go by and we head out early on a Saturday morning to the bookstore to get it. Out of stock, but they can special order it and have it in 3 weeks. That wasn't good enough for my mom, so we spent the entire day driving around to used bookstores looking for it. No luck finding it at any used bookstores.

Disappointed, we were heading back home empty handed, and mom decided to make a quick stop at the drug store. We walk in, and there it is, proudly sitting in the little spinning rack for paperback books. I was totally excited. We got it.

My 13 year old brain was telling me this was a totally awesome day, and that I was lucky to have a mom that would spend the entire day looking for another book for the family bookworm. But that wasn't the best of it. Knowing that I would tear into that book and probably read it cover to cover in a single day, she asked me to wait until the following Saturday before I started it.

Next Saturday comes around, and I tear into it first thing in the morning. Mom makes me get dressed and loads me into the car. I have no idea where we're going, and I'm too into my book to pay attention.

If you've ever been in Houston, you know that traffic is bad, and getting anywhere takes a long while. Turns out, she was driving me down to visit the battleship Texas. She had a lunch packed for us and everything. She brought a book for herself to stay occupied, and let me run around and explore the ship on my own, then I sat down up on top of one of the main gun turrets and read until the end of the day when they closed off the ship to visitors and told us we had to leave.

I'm 45 years old now, and I still have that same paperback copy of this book. I read at least 50 books a year still, and this one in all honesty is far from being one of the best I've ever read. But it brings back some of the best memories for me.