Just trying not to be washed overboard

[sovay]

I'm still not entirely sure I'm over Readercon. My head has been full of fragments for days. I am not writing anything substantive; it makes me feel fidgety and pointless. I met rushthatspeaks this afternoon at the Diesel; they showed me the cheeriest and most cracktastic path through Hatoful Boyfriend, which if I tell you is a pigeon dating game will not really explain anything. It was amazing. I'm still not sleeping. I don't expect any longer to become so tired, I simply fall over into a restorative sleep for hours, but it would be nice.

1. Courtesy of derspatchel: Don't Walk on Fish. "Hey, scatterbrain, don't cripple your friends!" is an endlessly applicable suggestion.

2. The Library of America is reprinting nine classic science fiction novels of the 1950's. I grew up with seven of these in the house, I think—mostly in the original editions. One of them I didn't read and Rush informs me I really need to. There are some terrific essays in here. Will someone just dramatize Leiber's The Big Time (1957) already?

3. Tom Lehrer on The Frost Report (1966) explains the decimal system.

4. The Guardian profiles M. John Harrison. I haven't seen a copy of Empty Space (2012), but it should be on shelves by now. I still need to read Nova Swing (2006).

5. I will dig through the boxes of my books in the garage and re-read Margaret Mahy's The Tricksters (1986). I wish I had known Sally Ride had a partner of twenty-seven years before she was a widow.

Comments

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Damn, sorry to hear you're not yet recovered. Here's to you being unknackered soon.

I think my favourite poster is "Look out for buffers", but the designers really seem to have had it in for bricklayers.

Sadly, I'd not even heard of Mahy before her death. Both The Tricksters and Haunting sound very good. I felt like banging my head against a wall reading about the treatment of Ride's partner.

[sovay]

Here's to you being unknackered soon.

Thanks. I have theater planned this weekend—the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Summer Radio Mystery Theatre and Apollinaire in the Park's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead—and rushthatspeaks and I are trying for Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) on Thursday, which may or may not help me sleep, but should be good for my brain anyway.

I think my favourite poster is "Look out for buffers", but the designers really seem to have had it in for bricklayers.

I am also impressed by the guy with his head caught between two boxcars. What was he even doing?

Sadly, I'd not even heard of Mahy before her death.

Looking over her Wikipedia page, I realized just how few of her books I'd read—she was incredibly prolific. A visit to the library is definitely in order.

I felt like banging my head against a wall reading about the treatment of Ride's partner.

I didn't know until steepholm told me. So much for the families of heroes.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I believe you and he are talking about the same picture, assuming my Russian has not gone to pot....

[sovay]

I believe you and he are talking about the same picture, assuming my Russian has not gone to pot....

We are talking about the same picture. I just thought "I also am impressed . . ." sounded too much like John Norman.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

...John Norman. Shudder.

Moorcock once proposed creating a sword and sorcery character called Naomi the Castrator and sending her round to Norman's house.

[sovay]

Moorcock once proposed creating a sword and sorcery character called Naomi the Castrator and sending her round to Norman's house.

If I have not already told you to read hans_the_bold's Gay, Bejeweled, Nazi Bikers of Gor, it is the best parody of that lamentable oeuvre that exists and incidentally a brilliant deconstruction of the sexual politics. The author tends to blame me for its existence, which is entirely unfair. He started writing it on its own. I just told him to keep going. The damage done to his brain by the research required for a mercilessly accurate sendup of Norman's style may never be repaired.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

He is a Hero of the Revolution for that work alone.