oh my louts and honeys HERE IS THE PLAIN DEAL: mr tracer hand and i have a RADIOSHOW on Resonance FM 104.4 about science fiction short stories and YOU are not listening to it enough which is odd bcz it is AWESOME and so are we. Besides we need dissent and hatas as well as love -- we are surely getting lots wrong.
"A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou delves deep into the science fiction short stories of SF’s Golden and Silver Ages. The pulp and avant-garde writing of c.1935-65 has fallen out of public memory; hosts ELISHA SESSIONS and MARK SINKER and their astounding guests return to this forgotten motherlode, once bedrock of the entire field. Eli reads evocative extracts, then Mark and guests yabber wildly on authors, styles, subtexts sexual and political, technique, value, impact and legacy, plus changing fashions and meanings in backdrop, tech and alien allure — and anything else that pops into their er pulsating crystalline brain-lobes." internet radiolink HERE backstory podcasts HERE facebook lj: http://community.livejournal.com/sluggasmox <--- languishin a bit to be honest as i have been busy
i: yes yes this is a blatant shameless plug WOT OF IT ii: FACT ile has the same birthday as tracer AND me so we can do what we like so suck on it fuckface iii: besides the show is pretty good and you might like it
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:00 (seventeen years ago)
i demand you say 'suck on it fuckface' on the radio without giggling.
― Ed, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:04 (seventeen years ago)
Show is very good indeed. All should listen.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:08 (seventeen years ago)
i'm glad you like it ned! any suggestions?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)
Of subject matter or of interviewees? (Modesty forbids on the last part.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)
Anyway, I'd unhesitatingly recommend something by Avram Davidson, but I'd have to think about what story to pick.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)
Besides we need dissent and hatas as well as love
FECKIN ILXORS INTERVIEWING OTHER ILXORS EVERYTHING THAT IS WORST ABOUT ILX NAZI GERMANY STARTED TIME HAS COME TO PUSH THE BUTTON CHARLTON HESTON AT THE END OF WHATEVER PLANET OF THE APES SEQUEL IT WAS STYLE
Yes I know, it's pretty poor, but at least it's a start...
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)
You finally did it, darn it all to heck.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)
What sequel did he do that in anyway?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)
dingbod there are a coupla guests coming that may not even have email accounts -- we read you loud and clear!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 April 2008 15:11 (seventeen years ago)
they are beings of pure energy!
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)
beingofpureene✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧
― czn, Thursday, 24 April 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)
I will listen to this (because it sounds good)
Will be disappointed if no stories featured from my favourite and only (late) Golden Age collection, the three Penguin Science Fiction anthologies edited by Brian Aldiss (now collected in one vol, "A Science Fiction Omnibus").
Or perhaps I should just stock up on a few more collections meself.
― ledge, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:52 (seventeen years ago)
probbly not this series, ledge -- i have all three, as three separate books, and totally agree they're awesome collections
(silver age, i'd say tho)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 20:56 (seventeen years ago)
Oh silver age comes after golden does it? Is this based on the comic book terminology? I can't find many web references to it as a sci-fi specific term.
― ledge, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:02 (seventeen years ago)
Are there any other anthologies y'all would recommend? I occasionally pop into 2nd hand bookshops and see what they have but that has led me to discover that many anthologies are just rubbish.
― ledge, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:07 (seventeen years ago)
haha i think i may have made it up!
(tho i think the terminology comes from homer)
silver age would be the 50s and early 60s (to my way of counting): ie not simply rocketships and gung-ho robots and glorious marauding aliens, but post-war apocalypse and grimness -- but pre-new wave, which is more a group of particular writers
(confusingly enough aldiss is a new wave writer, but not a new wave editor in those anthologies)
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:09 (seventeen years ago)
the one that gave eli the radio idea in the first place = "the world turned upside down"
another aldiss collection i like: "space opera"
the john carnell collection: "lambda one and other stories" <-- this is where this week's story came from, all british and mostly rather dour
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:12 (seventeen years ago)