Thursday 21 February 2008

Smearing the results

No sooner do I post on Greg Egan, and start ploughing through the books again, than he points out that Quarantine doesn't work. Well, it works as a book. And so does Permutation City and Distress and Axiomatic and if you could just slow down the clock count in the Autoverse for a wee while, Greg, and let me catch up again...

Monday 18 February 2008

Alain Robbe-Grillet is dead

Or is he? Is that baulstrade broken or not? Is the girl wearing a black or a white dress?

I'll write more about him soon. He was fantastic.

Tuesday 12 February 2008

Ye Gods! Greg Egan

Gollancz has reissued eight Egan books. They look fab. I have in the past sent them up a bit, but, boy, what a lot of good work there is here. I'm going to go through them all now. The new one is out in May. It's called Incandescence.

Monday 11 February 2008

charles fawcett/roy scheider

Haven't posted for a while. Sorry. Very busy. Will try to do better. Lots and lots of books to deal with.

Fawcett: an interesting dead dude here. about whom I write (or will write) here.

We all owe our our lives to people like that, who were engaged in a battle against the USSR. (For good or ill, some of you may say.)

I owe what I am in part to All That Jazz, Bob Fosse's film. Roy Scheider played the Fosse part. He's died, too. I'm awfully sorry about that.