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

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I wish I had known Sally Ride had a partner of twenty-seven years before she was a widow.

A partner who, I gather, is to be denied benefits, thanks to the Defense of Marriage Act. :(

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the Retronaut; I wandered from the safety posters to the Soviet bus stops, and then took myself sternly in hand...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for that obit of Sally Ride. I found it both moving and informative. What a sympathique person.

[selidor]

Ooh, there is a new M. John Harrison? Excellent. Might have to wait for reading it until thesis-submission; I do rather need those brain cells a little longer...

May there soon be some knitting-up for your ravelled sleeve of care.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

You went for "Don't walk on fish" over "For God's sake, a statistically unlikely number of you seem to be grabbing live wires" ?

Psh.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

I wish I had known Sally Ride had a partner of twenty-seven years before she was a widow.

Ditto.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

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.

Same here.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I had known about Sally Ride thanks to the constant Facebook friendslist updates, but didn't find out about Margaret Mahy until very late last night.

The Changeover was tremendously influential on me as a young greenlily, as a writer and a reader and a girl-discovering-boys and a person-considering-becoming-a practicing-neopagan and a teenager-realizing-her-parents-are-human-beings and several other hyphenated things. My copy is packed away with most of my other books until sometime in early September, and now I wish I'd kept it in my Books-Not-To-Be-Packed-Because-I-Might-Need-Them bag instead. :(

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

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.

*gives you a tiny zap gun for taking pot shots at TW who seems to be working overtime lately*

[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.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Empty Space looks good. I can't find anything on a US release date, though.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for the lack of sleep and fidgetyness and feeling of pointlessness. Tiny W, is there any bribe I could offer you to leave her alone for a while?

A pigeon dating game? Even in Japan, that's got to be unusual.

I hope you can sleep soon.

"Hey, scatterbrain, don't cripple your friends!" is an endlessly applicable suggestion.

Indeed it is. In the unlikely event I ever run a dig again, I might have to put some of these up.

2.

Excellent. Some classics there, some of which I need to read as well. Should/may I ask which one you did not read?

4.

Interesting. Bookmarking for reading later, I am.

I wish I had known Sally Ride had a partner of twenty-seven years before she was a widow.

I as well.

[gwynnega]

Sally Ride went to my high school--and when I was a student there, she gave a speech to the school. It must've been before her first flight. That photo at the top of the obit is just how I remember her.

[rosefox]

I'm still not entirely sure I'm over Readercon.

Ah, not just me, then.

(Admittedly, part of not being over Readercon appears to have been incubating a cold.)