I have had Dan Simmons and Dan *Jenkins*(author of such Southern-type guy humor as "Semi-Tough" and "You Gotta Play Hurt") confused for two days. Imagine my puzzlement.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
erikaj - Sep 30, 2005 4:53:37 pm PDT #9212 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Susan W. - Oct 01, 2005 9:18:32 pm PDT #9213 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Did we know that Amber Benson was co-authoring a book with Christopher Golden? [link] Historical fantasy, looks interesting enough that I'm going to ask the library to buy it (because I'm too broke to buy my own books until I get a job).
sj - Oct 01, 2005 10:44:12 pm PDT #9214 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There is actually two of them, Susan. The second one is only availible in hardcover right now.
Katerina Bee - Oct 04, 2005 8:18:24 am PDT #9215 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
I wondered if I missed some symbolism or something...help?
I'm pretty sure he was dissing the Church bigtime what with all the resurrection. Travel via archangel class ship sounds quite distressing what with the raspberry-paste factor.
"Ilium" characters travel via faxing technology. I bet this won't turn out any better than the farcasting in "Hyperioin."
Gandalfe - Oct 04, 2005 11:22:50 am PDT #9216 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I just finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Very reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale."
Polter-Cow - Oct 04, 2005 1:15:31 pm PDT #9217 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That makes me want to read it even more.
Gandalfe - Oct 04, 2005 1:58:28 pm PDT #9218 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I thought it would. It should, in fact.
§ ita § - Oct 06, 2005 10:24:37 am PDT #9219 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
On a quest to recapture my literary childhood, I'm trying to track down some books. Since I found some titles I'd owned in a Kenyan bookstore, I figure the American YA books should be trivial to locate, right?
The imprint's stories were about Chicano teens and their cultural identity. The one I remember most clearly is about a teenaged boy, perhaps a runaway, who has a cardboard cutout of Che Guevara that talks to him.
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Consuela - Oct 09, 2005 8:18:36 am PDT #9220 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
According to his publisher, Peter Beagle never got paid for the movie version of The Last Unicorn. [link]
They have a list of books for sale, but I don't actually want any of them. I'd buy an autographed edition of A Fine and Private Place or The Folk of the Air, but they're apparently out of print. Too bad.
In other news, there was a piece on NPR about the mainstreaming of science fiction. They talked to Terry Pratchett, Kazuo Ishiguru, and Susanna Clarke. They noticeably did not talk to Margaret Atwood. Heh.
It's very frustrating to have genre conventions become so inextricably entwined with content. Ah, well.
sumi - Oct 09, 2005 9:29:48 am PDT #9221 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
While looking for a list of books by an author (Ann C. Fallon) I came upon the Internet Book List. . .it's like the IMDB, except it's for books!