This table of contents is pretty strikinghttps://file770.com/big-book-of-cyberpunk-toc-released🕸/
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:30 (two years ago)
It seems like there's been a huge change in perception of old SFF artwork, everyone used to say it was godawful and now so many people say the 60s-90s was a great period. Is it partly because the covers of general/literary fiction look like candy megapacks? They're so stupid and ugly looking now, what happened? This can't all be blamed on youtube and tiktok visibility.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:31 (two years ago)
Christopher Priest RIPhttps://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=6855
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:03 (two years ago)
rip indeed
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:58 (two years ago)
Wha…? RIP :(
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:45 (two years ago)
I thought he would live to be at least six hundred and fifty miles.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:54 (two years ago)
Sad to hear about Priest, didn't expect this one.
James - what do you mean about that table of contents?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 February 2024 16:49 (two years ago)
I mean has anyone gotten that book and dipped into it yet?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 16:53 (two years ago)
I just saw it at my local library but didn’t borrow it…yet.
Still there on the NEW shelf, a few books down from Curepedia.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 17:59 (two years ago)
Christopher Priest RIPhttps://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=6855🕸
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 19:11 (two years ago)
Heh, they haven’t, but Paul Kincaid has, and they both liked Kincaid’s book about him so maybe I should take a look at that
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:34 (two years ago)
Also saw tributes from Pat Cadigan, a Ballard fan club and, wait for it, a Harlan Ellison fan club! Clute and Langford, like Richard Hell, said it’s too early.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:35 (two years ago)
Never read anything apart from Inverted World but it blew my mind of course. Would love some testimonials on his other stuff
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:39 (two years ago)
Lost track at some point but The Affirmation, The Glamour, The Extremes and The Separation are all really good.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:00 (two years ago)
Also The Adjacent, The Space Machine and The Quiet Woman.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:06 (two years ago)
And the stories in The Dream Archipelago.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:07 (two years ago)
That was a Golden Age of SF for me, when I read all of those books one after the other.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:21 (two years ago)
Still wanna read The Prestige, The Islanders, A Dream of Wessex and maybe The Gradual.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:27 (two years ago)
Hadn’t known he was first married to Lisa Tuttle for six years.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:31 (two years ago)
The relatively recent collection Episodes looks good, featuring the classic Palely Loitering which is also in this fine collection https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/a/a7/NNFNTSMMR271979.jpg
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:36 (two years ago)
This one he edited is good too:https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/7/74/NTCPTNSFVJ1978.jpg
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:37 (two years ago)
i recommended 'inverted word' to someone literally one hour before his death was announced, so maybe it's my fault
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 February 2024 01:21 (two years ago)
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― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 01:52 (two years ago)
At least he outlived his bête noire Martin Amis by a wee bit.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 03:45 (two years ago)
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 17:12 (two years ago)
don't actually know paul kincaid, but this is lovely re: christopher priest
https://ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/chris
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2024 05:41 (two years ago)
Yeah, meant to link. Does that have the Cavern club story?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 10:48 (two years ago)
Have Adam Roberts and M. John Harrison weighed in yet?
Christopher Priest has died.https://t.co/OaH6Iwse4m— Adam Roberts (@arrroberts) February 3, 2024
― Number None, Monday, 5 February 2024 12:11 (two years ago)
forgot the quote marks there, but anyway, a nice thread from Roberts
― Number None, Monday, 5 February 2024 12:12 (two years ago)
Ah I don’t use Twitter. I was hoping for a Medium post.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:20 (two years ago)
Okay, just created an account to see that, which somehow seems fitting.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:31 (two years ago)
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:32 (two years ago)
Priest lived on the island of Bute in recent years, and not long ago donated lots of books to this local charity bookshop:
https://friendsofwemyssbaystation.co.uk/bookshop-test/
On my last visit, I picked up a hardcover edition of Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (1974) by John Brosnan and found this inscription inside:
https://i.imgur.com/vJbxa08.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 5 February 2024 13:39 (two years ago)
Nice!
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:48 (two years ago)
Somebody on social media (on that Cavern Club thread I think) posted a picture of a book he had bought of Priest’s with an inscription from Richard Cowper to him.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:50 (two years ago)
Thread is here
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:53 (two years ago)
not much to it outside what I already told you though, but the inscription is cool.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:54 (two years ago)
Hadn’t realized that he was the first one to associate the term New Wave with New Worlds etc.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:55 (two years ago)
Found this in the sample of Paul Kincaid’s book about him:
In a long 1981 review of Lester del Rey’s The World of Science Fiction, Priest declared: ‘I am Lester del Rey’s professional adversary, the antagonist of his literary dreams’ (IT, 110), before going on to skewer del Rey’s vision of science fiction as something opposed to everything Priest himself believed in and worked towards. As Priest said: ‘I am challenging his perspective, his impartiality, his accuracy, his writing ability, his ideas and attitudes, and even his spelling and vocabulary. There is nothing here for him’ (IT, 110).
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:18 (two years ago)
damn dawg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:27 (two years ago)
Reminds me of Hollywood Henderson vs. Terry Bradshaw although you probably didn’t hear about that in the UK.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:39 (two years ago)
Maybe Tracer heard it when he was coming up though.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:40 (two years ago)
Hmm. Adam Roberts liked The Evidence, maybe I should add that to my Infinite SummerQueue.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:44 (two years ago)
TS The Dream Archipelago vs Viriconium
Mike Harrison has made a blog post in more than a month, mostly been retweeting stuff including Nina’s tweet.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:58 (two years ago)
Hasn’t
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 17:01 (two years ago)
Dig this origin story of Non-Stop being the book that set him on the right path or firmed his resolve, made him stick to his guns, blew his mind or whatever.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 06:00 (two years ago)
Now on a completely different tip, wonder if I need any of the $1.99 Poul Anderson ebooks?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 06:01 (two years ago)
*Chris turns over in his grave*
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 06:02 (two years ago)