Some genre bits
- I’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‘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’ll just get the signed hardcover and forgo the $250 leather edition. Of course, that will still leave a hole about the shape of Nevermore in the collection…
- Check out this review of Martha Wells‘ Fall of Ile-Rien books. Wells has been mentioned on this blog 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.
- I am currently reading, and tremendously enjoying Ellen Kushner‘s The Privilege Of The Sword (actually, I’m reading the Gavin & Kelly edition). This inspired me to finally get around to checking out Ellen’s radio show — Sound and Spirit. I listened to the “Rumi” and “The Road To Santiago” episodes, and decided I liked it enough to spend a couple of minutes teaching my computer to download all available episodes from WGBH‘s servers. I now have over 5Gb of MP3s of the show, around 110 hours, to listen to at my leisure.
- Speaking of things to listen to, I somehow managed to avoid noticing until earlier this week that George R. R. Martin now has a “limited run” podcast under way. Apparently my information-gathering network is not in top form.
- Charlie Stross is very entertaining on the whole “should SF be more like Star Wars?” brouhaha. And even if he weren’t I’d owe him one for linking to the excellent Moorcock essay Starship Stormtroopers, which I hadn’t run into before.
- Me, I prefer my science fiction in book form, and generally find that “media SF” is a distant cousin at best to what I like. However, I will say this about Battlestar Galactica, Season 3, Episode 4, “Exodus”: Holy Thundering Christ Tap-Dancing On A Cracker!.
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