Category Archives: Books

Potatoes On Broadway

In May 2003 we reported about an upcoming live onstage adaptation of Thing-Fish. Today, my inbox tells me a book is being written about the production: Rumours have it that the author of the book has completed the first bunch … Continue reading

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“Stand slow!” a voice rang out with hollow ubiquity

All true excerpts from stories submitted to Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, such as: Instinctively, without thinking about it, he grabbed the woman and hugged her and then gave her breasts a couple of playful pinches. “Commander please,” she said … Continue reading

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Arf, She Said

This is The End: I love Junichiro Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters but, even allowing for cultural differences, it has to have the most peculiar final sentence in all literature: “Yukiko’s diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on … Continue reading

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Bands And Authors

61 Bands and their corresponding Authors. Some good ones: Kate Bush — James Joyce The Beatles — Roald Dahl Captain Beefheart — Allen Ginsburg Green Day — Dan Brown Steely Dan — Raymond Chandler Yes — H.P. Lovecraft … which … Continue reading

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Be The Next Clarke

Have an idea for a science-fiction novel? This free online book might be of help — from story-development to creating plots, characters, aliens and worlds. (via bb)

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Letter To The FBI

A letter from science-fiction author Philip K. Dick to the FBI: […] several months ago I was approached by an individual who I have reason to believe belonged to a covert organization involving politics, illegal weapons, etc., who put great … Continue reading

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Book Meme

Kevin of Diseased Wits passed on the Book Meme baton to me a couple of days ago. You can read my responses over at moonbug dot org (which is basically the place where I post whatever doesn’t fit here). I … Continue reading

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The Administration and the Fury

If William Faulkner were writing on the Bush White House: “Go and get him Saddam’s gun,” Condi said. “You know how he likes to hold it.” Dick went to my desk drawer and took out Saddam’s gun. He gave it … Continue reading

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Actually

Unsurprisingly, I am, in fact, probably — yet unwittingly — and although I’m not really a writer per sé — guilty of many of these agonizing writer’s mistakes, no really.

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Sketchin’

Three great sketchblogs, as a reminder that I need to get off my lazy ass and start drawing again: Robot Johnny Diseased Wits De Derde Belg Oh, and you won’t regret buying this either.

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Pulp Fiction

Judge a book… by its cover — a big and fabulous collection of 70s pulp book covers.

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A Scanner Darkly

Here’s a cool trailer for the upcoming animated adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “A Scanner Darkly“. Why oh why does every single science-fiction movie these days have to have Keanu Reeves in it, I wonder?

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Walley On Thompson

David Walley has an article up on New Partisan with his take on the late great Hunter S. Thompson.

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Hunter S. Thompson RIP

Author/cult-figure Hunter S. Thompson, most known for his “Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas”, has apparently commited suicide at his Colorado home yesterday.

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All Caps

The case for ALL CAPS in favor of exclamation marks. I tend to agree, actually.

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