See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown.

Mal ,'Shindig'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Typo Boy - Jul 31, 2010 9:23:03 pm PDT #11797 of 28344
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Oh one last thing. Fire On The Mountain is back in print thanks to PM press. So it might be worth ordering.

There is a $5.12 Kindle edition: [link] though if you order through Amazon, better to use the Buffista link so the Buffistas get their share.


P.M. Marc - Jul 31, 2010 9:45:44 pm PDT #11798 of 28344
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

For some reason, neither the DH nor myself had read any of the Philip Jose Farmer Riverworld books. I am in the middle of the first and he has moved onto the second. They are great fun so far!

Sadly, at some point, they just get random, but I can't remember exactly what that point was. Probably midway through The Dark Design.


Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2010 3:14:57 am PDT #11799 of 28344
brillig

Oh, I remember "They're Made Out Of Meat!". Cool story.


-t - Aug 01, 2010 4:54:45 am PDT #11800 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I know I ended up really disliking the Riverworld books, but I can't remember exactly why. I had to finish reading the series because, well now I don't remember if that was me being completist or if that's all I had to read, but I think I started out liking them and gradually grew to not at all.


Laga - Aug 04, 2010 12:22:04 pm PDT #11801 of 28344
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I wonder if Bradbury got the idea for The Illustrated Man from Queequeg.


§ ita § - Aug 04, 2010 1:11:15 pm PDT #11802 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm having a huge blank spot, and maybe someone can help me. I'm trying to remember the name of a white African female author and am having a total brainfart. She's southern African, I'm pretty sure, prolific, highly critically regarded, and has written a little sci fi, but is primarily mainstream.

Yes, I could be vaguer if you pressed me, but it would be difficult.

This gap in my memory is just so frustrating!


javachik - Aug 04, 2010 1:12:33 pm PDT #11803 of 28344
Our wings are not tired.

Nadine Gordimer?


§ ita § - Aug 04, 2010 1:15:41 pm PDT #11804 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No, she didn't write any sci fi. The author I'm thinking of has, I think, at least two sci fi novels to her name. I'm not sure they were well-received by experts in the genre, but I remember liking what I'd read.

Jesus, my mother would shoot me. I know it's one of her favourite authors.


DavidS - Aug 04, 2010 1:32:47 pm PDT #11805 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Doris Lessing?


Strix - Aug 04, 2010 1:36:52 pm PDT #11806 of 28344
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Winifred Holtby?