I thought he would live to be at least six hundred and fifty miles.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:54 (seven months ago) link
Sad to hear about Priest, didn't expect this one.
James - what do you mean about that table of contents?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 February 2024 16:49 (seven months ago) link
I mean has anyone gotten that book and dipped into it yet?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 16:53 (seven months ago) link
I just saw it at my local library but didn’t borrow it…yet.
Still there on the NEW shelf, a few books down from Curepedia.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 17:59 (seven months ago) link
Christopher Priest RIPhttps://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=6855🕸
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 19:11 (seven months ago) link
Heh, they haven’t, but Paul Kincaid has, and they both liked Kincaid’s book about him so maybe I should take a look at that
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:34 (seven months ago) link
Also saw tributes from Pat Cadigan, a Ballard fan club and, wait for it, a Harlan Ellison fan club! Clute and Langford, like Richard Hell, said it’s too early.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:35 (seven months ago) link
Never read anything apart from Inverted World but it blew my mind of course. Would love some testimonials on his other stuff
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:39 (seven months ago) link
Lost track at some point but The Affirmation, The Glamour, The Extremes and The Separation are all really good.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:00 (seven months ago) link
Also The Adjacent, The Space Machine and The Quiet Woman.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:06 (seven months ago) link
And the stories in The Dream Archipelago.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:07 (seven months ago) link
That was a Golden Age of SF for me, when I read all of those books one after the other.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:21 (seven months ago) link
Still wanna read The Prestige, The Islanders, A Dream of Wessex and maybe The Gradual.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:27 (seven months ago) link
Hadn’t known he was first married to Lisa Tuttle for six years.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:31 (seven months ago) link
The relatively recent collection Episodes looks good, featuring the classic Palely Loitering which is also in this fine collection https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/a/a7/NNFNTSMMR271979.jpg
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:36 (seven months ago) link
This one he edited is good too:https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/7/74/NTCPTNSFVJ1978.jpg
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 00:37 (seven months ago) link
i recommended 'inverted word' to someone literally one hour before his death was announced, so maybe it's my fault
― mookieproof, Sunday, 4 February 2024 01:21 (seven months ago) link
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― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 01:52 (seven months ago) link
At least he outlived his bête noire Martin Amis by a wee bit.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 03:45 (seven months ago) link
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 17:12 (seven months ago) link
don't actually know paul kincaid, but this is lovely re: christopher priest
https://ttdlabyrinth.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/chris
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2024 05:41 (seven months ago) link
Yeah, meant to link. Does that have the Cavern club story?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 10:48 (seven months ago) link
Have Adam Roberts and M. John Harrison weighed in yet?
Christopher Priest has died.https://t.co/OaH6Iwse4m— Adam Roberts (@arrroberts) February 3, 2024
― Number None, Monday, 5 February 2024 12:11 (seven months ago) link
forgot the quote marks there, but anyway, a nice thread from Roberts
― Number None, Monday, 5 February 2024 12:12 (seven months ago) link
Ah I don’t use Twitter. I was hoping for a Medium post.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:20 (seven months ago) link
Okay, just created an account to see that, which somehow seems fitting.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:31 (seven months ago) link
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:32 (seven months ago) link
Priest lived on the island of Bute in recent years, and not long ago donated lots of books to this local charity bookshop:
https://friendsofwemyssbaystation.co.uk/bookshop-test/
On my last visit, I picked up a hardcover edition of Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (1974) by John Brosnan and found this inscription inside:
https://i.imgur.com/vJbxa08.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 5 February 2024 13:39 (seven months ago) link
Nice!
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:48 (seven months ago) link
Somebody on social media (on that Cavern Club thread I think) posted a picture of a book he had bought of Priest’s with an inscription from Richard Cowper to him.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:50 (seven months ago) link
Thread is here
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:53 (seven months ago) link
not much to it outside what I already told you though, but the inscription is cool.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:54 (seven months ago) link
Hadn’t realized that he was the first one to associate the term New Wave with New Worlds etc.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 13:55 (seven months ago) link
Found this in the sample of Paul Kincaid’s book about him:
In a long 1981 review of Lester del Rey’s The World of Science Fiction, Priest declared: ‘I am Lester del Rey’s professional adversary, the antagonist of his literary dreams’ (IT, 110), before going on to skewer del Rey’s vision of science fiction as something opposed to everything Priest himself believed in and worked towards. As Priest said: ‘I am challenging his perspective, his impartiality, his accuracy, his writing ability, his ideas and attitudes, and even his spelling and vocabulary. There is nothing here for him’ (IT, 110).
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:18 (seven months ago) link
damn dawg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:27 (seven months ago) link
Reminds me of Hollywood Henderson vs. Terry Bradshaw although you probably didn’t hear about that in the UK.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:39 (seven months ago) link
Maybe Tracer heard it when he was coming up though.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:40 (seven months ago) link
Hmm. Adam Roberts liked The Evidence, maybe I should add that to my Infinite SummerQueue.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:44 (seven months ago) link
TS The Dream Archipelago vs Viriconium
Mike Harrison has made a blog post in more than a month, mostly been retweeting stuff including Nina’s tweet.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 16:58 (seven months ago) link
Hasn’t
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 February 2024 17:01 (seven months ago) link
Dig this origin story of Non-Stop being the book that set him on the right path or firmed his resolve, made him stick to his guns, blew his mind or whatever.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 06:00 (seven months ago) link
Now on a completely different tip, wonder if I need any of the $1.99 Poul Anderson ebooks?
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 06:01 (seven months ago) link
*Chris turns over in his grave*
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 06:02 (seven months ago) link
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-134-cody-goodfellow-on-his-new-novel-vertical/id1524359471?i=1000640902593
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 8 February 2024 23:28 (six months ago) link
_But n Ben A-Go-Go_ is what I’m talking about.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 February 2024 00:14 (six months ago) link
So about M. John Harrison’s memoir, Wish I Was Here.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 February 2024 00:16 (six months ago) link
Is there an omnibus version of the Elric saga? The currently available versions are individual hardbacks with about three words per page.
What I really want are the 80s paperbacks in the sliver covers I used to gaze at in Waldenbooks, but they are $$$.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, September 7, 2023 8:04 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I recently reconnected with one of my oldest friends after about 5 years. I casually mentioned to him the Elric editions I referenced above. Several weeks later I received a package from him in the mail with his copies of those editions from his teens and a handwritten note where he drew a picture of Stormbringer :)
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 16 February 2024 14:57 (six months ago) link
What a nice friend. A pal of mine, no longer with us, used to have a parody character called Eric of Marylebone (an area of Central London with a big old train station). And of course Dave Sim had a character called Elrod, based on Barry Smith's version of Elric from the Conan comics, with the speech patterns of Foghorn Leghorn.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 16 February 2024 15:14 (six months ago) link