{"id":705,"date":"2006-10-21T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/21\/some-genre-bits\/"},"modified":"2006-10-21T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T03:47:08","slug":"some-genre-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/21\/some-genre-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Some genre bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been of the mind for a while now that there was a hole in my book collection that needed to be filled with a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfotainmenttoday.com\/emulsionalproblems\/hjortsbergwilliam.htm\">William Hjortsberg<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamhjortsberg.com\/falling.html\">Falling Angel<\/a>. Well, I see where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millipedepress.com\/\">Millipede Press<\/a> is doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millipedepress.com\/books\/falling-angel.html\">a lovely new edition<\/a>, and with an introduction by James Crumley, no less! I think, though, that I&#8217;ll just get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millipedepress.com\/books\/falling-angel.html\">the signed hardcover<\/a> and forgo the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centipedepress.com\/angel.html\">$250 leather edition<\/a>. Of course, that will still leave a hole about the shape of <a href=\"http:\/\/trashotron.com\/agony\/reviews\/hjortsberg_nevermore.htm\">Nevermore<\/a> in the collection&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/dragonlady7.livejournal.com\/823862.html\">review<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthawells.com\/\">Martha Wells<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthawells.com\/bib.htm#fall\">Fall of Ile-Rien<\/a> books. Wells has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/index.php?s=martha+wells\">mentioned on this blog<\/a> at least a half-dozen times. If it makes you want to read them, I have an extra copy of each of the first two books in the trilogy, that are available for the first person who asks in the comments.<\/li>\n<li>I am currently reading, and tremendously enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/kushnerSherman\/Kushner\/\">Ellen Kushner<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780553382686\">The Privilege Of The Sword<\/a> (actually, I&#8217;m reading the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcrw.net\/kushner\/index.htm\"> Gavin &#038; Kelly edition<\/a>). This inspired me to finally get around to checking out Ellen&#8217;s radio show &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/pages\/pri\/spirit\/index.html\">Sound and Spirit<\/a>. I listened to the &#8220;Rumi&#8221; and &#8220;The Road To Santiago&#8221; episodes, and decided I liked it enough to spend a couple of minutes<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metaproducts.com\/EE.html\"> teaching my computer<\/a> to download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/pages\/pri\/spirit\/alphabetical.html\">all available episodes<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/\">WGBH<\/a>&#8216;s servers. I now have over 5Gb of MP3s of the show, around 110 hours, to listen to at my leisure.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of things to listen to, I somehow managed to avoid noticing until earlier this week that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgerrmartin.com\/\">George R. R. Martin<\/a> now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sffaudio.com\/2006\/10\/official-george-rr-martin-podcast.html\">&#8220;limited run&#8221; podcast<\/a> under way. Apparently my information-gathering network is not in top form.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/fiction\/faq.html\">Charlie Stross<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2006\/10\/lets_put_the_future_behind_us.html\">very entertaining<\/a> on the whole &#8220;should SF be more like Star Wars?&#8221; brouhaha. And even if he weren&#8217;t I&#8217;d owe him one for linking to the excellent Moorcock essay <a href=\"http:\/\/flag.blackened.net\/liberty\/moorcock.html\">Starship Stormtroopers<\/a>, which I hadn&#8217;t run into before.<\/li>\n<li>Me, I prefer my science fiction in book form, and generally find that &#8220;media SF&#8221; is a distant cousin at best to what I like. However, I will say this about Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, Episode 4, &#8220;Exodus&#8221;: <strong>Holy Thundering Christ Tap-Dancing On A Cracker!<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I&#8217;ve been of the mind for a while now that there was a hole in my book collection that needed to be filled with a copy of William Hjortsberg&#8216;s Falling Angel. Well, I see where Millipede Press is doing a lovely new edition, and with an introduction by James Crumley, no less! I think, though, that I&#8217;ll just get the&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/21\/some-genre-bits\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-bn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}