So the other day we took a trip to Coleraine. It turned out that the whole town was kind of stinky. Literally. There was some kind of "funk" that was in the air.

So we left and took another train to Portrush.

While in the Coleraine train station, I stopped to browse the "NI Railways Book Club" shelf. It's kind of a cool program. They have all these books that they leave at train stations. You just stop by, pick up a book, read it on the train and then drop it off when you're done.

The book I picked up (at left) was "Automan". It was the novelization of a US TV series of the same name from the 1980s.

And now, fellow Freedom Haters, I am not lying when I tell you that I had never, EVER heard of Automan.

So, naturally, I started doing some reasearch as soon as I got home.

And now I share that knowledge with you now.

This....is.....Automan!!!

First up - let's take a look at the intro to the TV show...

Yes, the show is about an LAPD cop who develops a computer hologram that can fight crime. Automan can also transform himself into a car or a helicopter at will. I'm not sure about how all that works. But, trust me on this one. That's what he does.

HE'S AUTOMAN!!

On another note, do the graphics remind anyone of Tron? 

Yes, the show was so Tron-centric that apparently the producers of the show hired some of the people who had worked on Tron so that they wouldn't get sued.

But the best part of the discovery was the novel itself....