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 (six months ago) link
Looks pretty cool to me.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:07 (six 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 (two months 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 (two months ago) link