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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 22, 2021 15:21:00 GMT
Edmund Crispin (of Irish origin) mentions oxters in one of his novels. Odd. I have read all of Crispin's novels, but do not remember seeing this word. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 22, 2021 15:28:41 GMT
Edmund Crispin (of Irish origin) mentions oxters in one of his novels. Odd. I have read all of Crispin's novels, but do not remember seeing this word. According to Google Books he uses oxters (plural) in The Glimpses of the Moon and oxter (singular) in one of his short stories in Beware of the Trains. He was obsessed. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 22, 2021 16:31:04 GMT
Odd. I have read all of Crispin's novels, but do not remember seeing this word. According to Google Books he uses oxters (plural) in The Glimpses of the Moon and oxter (singular) in one of his short stories in Beware of the Trains. He was obsessed. Clearly. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 23, 2021 13:38:05 GMT
According to Google Books he uses oxters (plural) in The Glimpses of the Moon and oxter (singular) in one of his short stories in Beware of the Trains. He was obsessed. Clearly.  |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 26, 2022 22:11:54 GMT
I agree that "A Subway Named Möbius" is one of the book's highlights. Given its theme, it could also fit well in the British Library's upcoming Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematic Weird anthology. Speaking of which: has anyone seen a table of contents for that book? 'I have stood on the dim shore beyond time and matter and seen it. It moves through strange curves and outrageous angles. Some day I shall travel in time and meet it face to face.'Unlike nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, which tends to fixate on the past, the haunted and the ghostly, early weird fiction probes the very boundaries of reality the laws and limits of time, space and matter. Here, unimaginable terrors lurk in hitherto unknown mirror dimensions, calamities in ultra-space threaten to wipe clean all evidence of our universe and experiments in non-Euclidean geometry lead to sickening consequences.
In twelve speculative tales of our universe's mathematics and physics gone awry, this new anthology presents an abundance of curiosities and terrors with stories from Jorge Luis Borges, Miriam Allen deFord, Frank Belknap Long and Algernon Blackwood.I know I've read at least one where "ghosts" or "demons" seen in some olden-day setting turn out to be visions of our present day (possibly by Nigel Kneale? - it sounds like him), but can't remember any titles. Ha - it's The Road by Nigel Kneale. I think I must have read it (in script form) as an extra on the BFI Stone Tape DVD, as it doesn't seem to exist anywhere else. The play was broadcast on BBC TV in 1963 as part of the First Night anthology drama series, but is now lost. There was also an Australian version that was broadcast there in 1964 (also now lost), and a BBC Radio 4 adaptation in 2018 that starred Mark Gatiss. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_(TV_play) |
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Post by humgoo on Jan 27, 2022 10:30:00 GMT
Ha - it's The Road by Nigel Kneale. I think I must have read it (in script form) as an extra on the BFI Stone Tape DVD, as it doesn't seem to exist anywhere else. It's in the book The Year of the Sex Olympics and Other TV Plays (Ferret Fantasy, 1976), which only costs you 200 quid or something. I envy you. Have never had a chance to read that. As good as Stone Tape? |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 27, 2022 12:01:35 GMT
Here's the thing - I have just dug out my DVD of The Stone Tape, and it doesn't have the script of The Road on it! It must have been some special deluxe version that had it as an extra. I am starting to wonder now if I somehow managed to catch the 2018 Radio 4 adaptation (I don't really listen to radio, but might have made a point of listening if I had heard it was going to be on). Good news is it's available (to listen or download) on Internet Archive - archive.org/details/the-road-bbc. I must listen to it and see if I recognize having heard it before. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 27, 2022 22:24:03 GMT
Ha - it's The Road by Nigel Kneale. I think I must have read it (in script form) as an extra on the BFI Stone Tape DVD, as it doesn't seem to exist anywhere else. It's in the book The Year of the Sex Olympics and Other TV Plays (Ferret Fantasy, 1976), which only costs you 200 quid or something. I envy you. Have never had a chance to read that. As good as Stone Tape? Yes the BFI Stone Tape disc is where I read The Road, and because I knew nothing about it my jaw dropped at that ending! |
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