This review of the RAH bio (along with a Cory Doctorow novel) by John Clute is kind of amazing: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20100628/clute-c.shtml
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
Finally just started reading Sales' Apollo Quartet. ZOWIE. More than makes up for current reading doldrums.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 25 April 2014 04:27 (nine years ago) link
Cool.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 April 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
Wish I was reading those again for the first time.
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 April 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
The last one of those is out, btw. On a related note, you are wanted over on this thread: DSKY-DSKY Him Sad: Official ILB Thread For The Heroic Age of Manned Spaceflight.
― The Clones of Baron Funkhausen by Proxy Syndrome (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 03:07 (eight years ago) link
Hooboy. I'm so far behind on everything... I promise I'll get to that thread. I've been riding the train to work the past couple of weeks and have been blazing through some schlock just to clear it out. I've been in a dark depressive hole lately - been hate-reading Nixon books and Supermob - the Sidney Korshak book that's a must-read for anyone who perceives the utter corruption at the core of American power.
Did read garbage techno-thriller Ghost Fleet on the Metrolink the other day. I don't know what to say other than it felt like distasteful propaganda.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 3 August 2015 07:40 (eight years ago) link
Background on that: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/04/ghost-fleet-welcome-world-post-snowden-techno-thrillers/
Reviving thread to go on about how much I'm enjoying Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry For The Future. A spiritual successor to Stand On Zanzibar that's just as annoyingly fractured.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 04:01 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that's a good big messy book that actually gave me a glimmer of hope.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 05:11 (two years ago) link
Minor thread revival - I'm thanked in the end credits for having helped bring this accursed thing into being
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71dH-Q5HCjL._SL1500_.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 01:14 (five months ago) link
Looks pretty cool to me.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:07 (five months ago) link
There’s an apocryphal story about Kubrick where his assistants and family would constantly hear the sound of novels being hurled at the office walls. One day the sound stopped… and that novel was The Shining.Anyway, imagine me doing the same until I got to The Twenty Days of Turin - a real read-twice-before-reacting brilliant kind of book
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 March 2024 12:32 (one month ago) link
Glad this thread ultimately had a purpose after all.
This review of the RAH bio (along with a Cory Doctorow novel) by John Clute is kind of amazing: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20100628/clute-c.shtml🕸
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 March 2024 13:11 (one month ago) link