http://www.locusmag.com/1997/Issues/06/Keyes.html
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 June 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
Oh, Gold became notorious for that shit. I've read several mentions from his authors to the effect that you never knew how your story ended 'til you saw it in print.
― dow, Monday, 16 June 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Not that he was the only one, in his heyday or after. I suspect some writers internalized it, too; they knew what the editors or publishers required.
― dow, Monday, 16 June 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
He didn't change the ending to "The Tunnel Under The World" did he? Or maybe Pohl was editing himself by then.
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
i had 'martian chronicles' and 'canticle for leibowitz' in high school : /
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
We took the same train from the city home,” he said, “and on a ride back I said to Dan, ‘This is a very nice story, but I have a few suggestions.’ AndKeyes burst into tears and gripped me by the lapels and said, ‘No, no, no, don’t be like Horace! Horace says that I have to keep Charlie smart. I can’t do it, I just can’t do it!’
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
^ From Barry Malzberg's forward to Cyril M. Kornbluth's With These Hands (The Galaxy Project) as told to Barry by Robert P. Mills, who bought the story for The Magazine for Fantasy and Science Fiction.
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
Wikipedia says he first came up with the idea for the story while working for Marvel Comics, but did not pitch it to Stan.
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
Stan Lee Presents A Flower for Algernon
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 07:37 (nine years ago) link
Hey Alg, It's Cerebratin' Time!
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 11:21 (nine years ago) link
That report has been reverted, btw.
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
more popular than 1984 or brave new world? or the war of the worlds? but yeah definitely high school english class popular. at least in the u.s. it's great too. deserves every accolade.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
more popular than 1984 or brave new world?
in some ways I want to disqualify such sci-fi works by non-scifi authors, but yeah these are pretty commonly taught too. but Flowers for Algernon is simpler and easier to teach, without the messy political baggage
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
true, they are ringers. and yet i never actually thought of flowers as a sci-fi book when i was a kid.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
me neither tbh but then Keyes was not famous for anything else the way Huxley and Orwell were - because he was toiling in obscurity in sci-fi mag ghetto.
anyone got opinions on Budrys? I've never read him but he keeps popping up in this Malzberg book.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
Canticle not a big thing this side of the pond but 1984 and BNW were the kind of thing you read at school (i did 1984 for my o-levels in, yep, 1984. failed, abysmally)
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Shakey, you gotsa read Rogue Moon
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Gotsta
i've bored people about budrys before. try Rogue Moon and Who? the short story collection Blood And Burning is quite good too, the 1/4 of it that i've read so far.
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
Did you like Michaelmas, koogs? They say he predicted the internet with that one
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
y'know, i've read it but a quick look at a synopsis tells me i need to re-read it as i can't remember the first thing about it.
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Tried to reread it a few months ago, couldn't get into it.
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
'rogue moon' suffered when i read it because i kept picturing rusty venture and brock samson
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
who? is kind of sillier though
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
I've only read a few Budrys, as I came across them in big old anthologies, but they were captivating, amazingly different from the pissy voice of his ancient book review columns. Which might be unfair, since I skimmed those in high school, but doing so put me off checking his fiction for quite a while.
― dow, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
I'm remembering exactly that dichotomy now that you mention it
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
Keyes passing official now.
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
From Subterranean Press newsletter--think I might latch up on the next time truck run and look for a big ol' used, thus relatively affordable trade paperback of this in '16 or '17:
The Top of the Volcano is the collection we hoped would come along eventually, twenty-three of Harlan's very best stories, award-winners every one, brought together in a single volume at last. There's the unforgettable power of "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman," "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" and "Mefisto in Onyx," the heart-rending pathos of "Jeffty Is Five" and "Paladin of the Lost Hour", the chilling terror of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," the ingenuity and startling intimacy of "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans..."
These stories are full of the light and life of someone with things worth saying and the skills to do it, presented in the book we had to have-not just a Best-of (though given what's on offer it may just fall out that way) but in one easy-to-grab volume perfect for newbies, long-time fans and seasoned professionals alike to remind them just how it can be done.
Lettered: 52 signed copies, bound in leather, housed in a custom traycase: $275Limited: 250 signed numbered copies, housed in a custom slipcase: $125Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition: $45
Table of Contents:
'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World A Boy and His Dog The Region Between Basilisk The Deathbird The Whimper of Whipped Dogs Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W 225 Croatoan Jeffty is Five Count the Clock That Tells the Time Djinn, No Chaser Paladin of the Lost Hour With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole Soft Monkey Eidolons The Function of Dream Sleep The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore Mefisto in Onyx Chatting with Anubis The Human Operators with A.E. Van Vogt How Interesting: A Tiny Man (Anbody read all of 'em?)
― dow, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The Haunters And The Haunted" or "The House And The Brain"
This was one of the first ghost stories I ever read, it was a decade ago and I'm amazed how different I recall it, almost a different story. It's about a haunted house and powerful telepathy. It isn't all that convincing, the explanatory conversations are a bit too long winded but it's still pretty good.
Scared me way more the first time but I found there was still one or two creepy bits; I'm really worried barely anything will scare me in the future because the promise of terror is a very large part of what attracts me to supernatural stories but many fans and writers say nothing has scared them since a young age. That better not happen to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
So this news just broke over the past couple of days and I'm so shocked that I have nothing to say except that I quietly and discreetly put the couple of books I have by her into the bag to take to Goodwill.
From http://www.teleread.com/writing/marion-zimmer-bradley-child-abuser-says-daughter/
Well, for those who argue that the biography or rap sheet doesn’t matter, and that literature is indifferent to the actions and morality of the creator, here’s a test for you. Marion Zimmer Bradley, celebrated science fiction and fantasy author, recipient of the, cofounder of the Society for Creative Anachronism, posthumous recipient of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, has just been revealed by her own daughter Moira Greyland as a repeat child molester, who not only countenanced her sometime husband Walter Breen‘s relationship with an underage boy, but also violated her own daughter, and other children, of both sexes, repeatedly, over many years.
More at:http://www.adistantsoil.com/2014/06/20/why-i-burned-marion-zimmer-bradleys-books/ - lots more links and documentation via Google.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 06:05 (nine years ago) link
whoah
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
yeah
I've been working my way through the web of links throughout the day. Super vomitous.
― shameless pureyors of slop-on-plate (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
was always repulsed by those books but not because I was getting this kind of vibe from them
I hated Mists of Avalon anyway. my college gf made me read it.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
what's really fucking me up here is apparently everyone knew about this and it's been a matter of public record forever and yet it's somehow *just now* breaking. wtf wtf wtf.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Saturday, 28 June 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
I know!!! I think it's one of those "this is the first time it re-broke after the internet" situations. But yeah like this is solid, court depositions, arrests made stuff.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 28 June 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
I was wondering that too. I'd really hate to think the wider sf/fantasy community was involved or turned a blind eye. I don't like the idea of more writers and editors being revealed as child abusers.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 June 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
Considering how furious people of the community were when Harlan Ellison groped Connie Willis, I wouldn't think so.
― Øystein, Saturday, 28 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
I never heard that one but it does little to change my blanket "fuck Harlan Ellison" policy
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 28 June 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
This is presented as an entirely satisfying stand-alone fantasy (back and forth across various kinds of borderlines, incl. subgenre: "crosshatching," as Science Fiction Encyclopedia might say), certainly rare enough if true, with appealing descriptions and excerpts: http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/coral-waxwork-classic/
― dow, Saturday, 28 June 2014 23:12 (nine years ago) link
Been really enjoying Damon Night's short stories this past couple weeks.
― Call the Cops, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Which?
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
Actually novellas, more accurately: Rule Golden, Natural State, and The Dying Man. Need to seek out more but v. impressed. Kind of knew he'd be great by the amount Gene Wolfe mentions him in various writings and interviews.
― Call the Cops, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Well it is well known that DK grew up GW like a bean.
― Riot In #9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
Call The Cops, some good talk about Knight upthread. The novellas you like are in one of my fave science fiction collections by anybody, The Golden Man, along with "Double Meaning" and "The Earth Quarter," yay.
― dow, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
reading bruce sterling's "schismatrix" - laughably bad!
― the late great, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
but it has great reviews on amazon ... maybe i'm reading wrong
― the late great, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
I was impressed with it when I re-read it a few years ago. What's yr problem with it.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Cheers Dow, I'll hunt out those two next. These three were in the same PB.
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link
Amazon usually has some cheapo copies of Rule Golden with all five, but make sure; think some editions are shorter. Abebooks usually has what I can't find on Amazon.
― dow, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link