is it ray bradbury? i only vaguely recall this - somehow people had gotten to the point where they considered their bodies a hindrance and kept them in cold storage while their minds floated around somehow. the plot involved a threat to the bodies that they had to somehow deal with..??
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)
There as a Star Trek Original Series episode which had disembodied minds, "The Gamester's of Triskelion". But I'[m sure that's not what you're asking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gamesters_of_Triskelion
― Chelvis, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0804/3.jpg
― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.gpdesenhos.com.br/imagens/dccomics/monsieurmallah2.jpg
― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)
Monsieur Mallah and The Brain! It was especially good when they were in Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, reimagined as (somewhat thwarted) lovers.
― James Morrison, Thursday, 24 April 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)
the body-insane bradbury i remember is the one where this guy gets his skeleton removed surgically
it ends with him lying in an immobile puddle staring at the ceiling, blissfully happy
― mark s, Thursday, 24 April 2008 14:09 (seventeen years ago)
I've never read 'The Red Brain'. I think I might have read a very brief send-up of it Robert Sheckley's 'Zirn Left Unguarded the Jenghik Palace in Flame Jon Westerley Dead', which runs something like "The fate of the universe depended on the red brain — but the red brain was insane! Aha! Ahaha!"
― thomp, Friday, 25 April 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)
no you read no send-up
"zirn left unguarded" is also awesome but it is a different story
(actually in a VERY TRUE AND REAL sense it is the same story)
― mark s, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:21 (seventeen years ago)
hurrah
Robert Sheckley
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 28 April 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)
semi-obscure pulp authors i wish to post quotes from
Perhaps tonight the question raised on this thread will finally be answered.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 28 April 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)
i have now realised that 'the red brain' and 'jirn left unguarded etc etc' are both in this anthology, perhaps even adjacent in it:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/t0/t10.jpg
and somehow i'd lumped them into one story. hm.
― thomp, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:18 (seventeen years ago)
man the frank belknap long story i was going to quote from on that thread was INTENSE
this is gonna be good, people!!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 12:30 (seventeen years ago)
well i still have no idea what the story is that i was thinkin of
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)
it's not vonnegut, is it?
― thomp, Friday, 2 May 2008 11:18 (seventeen years ago)
actually i think it's next to vonnegut in an anthology i have � harvey jacobs?
here is a lovely drawing by mervyn peake:
http://www.noosfere.org/showcase/IMAGES/nw_6904.jpg
sadly, it is illustrating 'a boy and his dog'.
― thomp, Friday, 2 May 2008 11:31 (seventeen years ago)
mark wanted to talk about "a boy and his dog" earlier in the series but i think he never did
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 May 2008 11:35 (seventeen years ago)
no wait again — it is vonnegut! 'unready to wear'
― thomp, Friday, 2 May 2008 11:38 (seventeen years ago)
Cool picture. Probably best to steer clear of that story- the notoriously litigious author might have shut your podcast down.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 2 May 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)
YES it is unready to wear! thank you thomp!!
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 May 2008 13:43 (seventeen years ago)