Bug The Sluglords Hey, according to The Black Box Containing All KnowledgeWikipedia, the Parliamentary words aboutNew Worlds had to do with the serialization of Bug Jack Barron.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's the story, from the horse's mouth: http://www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk/bugjackbarron.htm
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
re colin kapp and "lambda one" -- yeah, i had this in mind at one point but its first eight pages is doggedly hyper-clumsy exposition (person a: "so, person b, remind me again of the nature of yr work and the state of yr marriage and how exactly the bogus science we will bve macking on this story works again"), whereas the donald malcolm at least mentions the doughnut star on like page one!
also martin and i get to hate on kubrick yay!
the follow-up to "lambda one" = "the imagination trap" is also excellent once it gets going, but its exposition (largely rekapping hoho the plot of "lambda one" is even clumsier: viz person A embrakrs on vast paragraph covering everything, capp reliaes this is a bit much and breaks it up via the device of turning it into TWO paragraphs w.person B saying "go on" in the middle!
these two stories and the tau-space stuff became a novel -- "the transfinite man' -- but i never read it
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
haha re spinrad: when i first went to germany, aged 11, to visit a friend (whose dad wz in nato) i bought a copy of THE IRON DREAM at the airport -- ie the counterhistory novel which imagines that hitler went to ameirca after wwi and became an SF writer: THE IRON DREAM bein the novel he wd have written...
anyway it is all swastikas and hitler moustaches on the v.lurid cover and i TOTALLY DID NOT THINK THIS THRU unti i wz approaching customs at the hamburg end of the flight and massively got the ph34r i wd be deported for reading literature likely to deprave and subvert, or similar -- or at the very least be sarcastically commented at
but i wz 11 obv and they didn't even bother looking in my bag
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to feel a little weird at the age of 16 reading that book on the subway. You had reason to be fearful, Mark, The Black Box told me a little while ago that the book was banned in Germany for eight years and after its unbanning its cover could not be displayed.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Never knew or forgot that Spinrad went to my high school. He seems to be doing historical fiction now. I have come across lots of recently-translated-into-Spanish copies his latest, Mexica.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 24 April 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Happy Sluglord Singularity!
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 10:12 (one year ago) link
Here is the original thread: threadment for rolling discussion of Slug of TimeSeems that Zirn is still unguarded and Jon Westerley is still dead.
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 10:15 (one year ago) link
🪐🚀👽
― mark s, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 10:17 (one year ago) link
I’ve been a huge fan of theirs since day one and not just because of their retrofuturistic fealty to TEH REDD BRANE.
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 10:23 (one year ago) link
See also: old s.f. story about people who let their brains run free, and kept their bodies in a shed?
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 10:25 (one year ago) link
And: a brief history of the giant disembodied brain
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 10:27 (one year ago) link
Third cortex different from the rest: disembodied brains as cover art
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 10:31 (one year ago) link