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Post by helrunar on Sept 28, 2023 13:47:51 GMT
Particularly absurd because there was a 1980s TV movie adaptation of The Martian Chronicles, so if they simply wanted to adapt a film still, they could have gone with that.
Hel.
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Post by sadako on Oct 29, 2023 19:28:09 GMT
Cheap!  |
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Post by helrunar on Oct 30, 2023 2:12:52 GMT
I've always wondered just what a curate's egg looks like. Maybe that's it?
Your blog seems to have a lot of really cool material on it. Intriguing!
cheers, Hel.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Oct 30, 2023 13:42:35 GMT
Cheap! Imagine being the author and discovering that is to be the cover of your book. |
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Post by sadako on Oct 30, 2023 18:05:23 GMT
I've always wondered just what a curate's egg looks like. Maybe that's it? Your blog seems to have a lot of really cool material on it. Intriguing! cheers, Hel. Thank you for looking at the blog. I’ve given up on it for the lack of feedback. Kept me busy though. Once I started promoting it on Twitter, I ended up switching all my research time into ‘micro-blogging’ on there. Hit a high of 35,000 followers, which was far more rewarding in terms of response. Now that Twitter’s fizzled out, I’m back to square one and scrambling around looking around for where any likeminded folk are! My favourite Twitter feeds must have scattered or given up on online platforms. My energy is currently devoted to vintage paperback collecting and reading, and my Lego projects - building my own brutalist achitecture, Star Wars and horror movie sets! |
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Post by helrunar on Oct 30, 2023 19:57:32 GMT
Hi Sadako,
A lot of Twitter folks seem to be moving to a platform called Blue Sky. Another popular one is called, I think, Maverick. I haven't pursued looking into either--I am on too much social media as it is.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Jan 8, 2024 13:56:04 GMT
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 24, 2024 18:52:14 GMT
One Pronzini of a maybe interest in the Vault is his The Running of Beasts, co-written with Barry Malzberg in 1976. It is a serial killer novel before they became popular and is quite well done. I just reread this one. I first read it as a teenager, and it left a lasting impression. It was even better this time. It is somewhat akin to those crazy contemporaneous Italian films. Anybody could be the killer! The reader could be the killer! Highly recommended. The next one they co-wrote, ACTS OF MERCY, is pretty crazy, too, but not as good. I am currently reading their third joint effort, NIGHT SCREAMS, and will reserve judgment until I finish it. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 25, 2024 17:50:45 GMT
I am currently reading their third joint effort, NIGHT SCREAMS, and will reserve judgment until I finish it. Ok, I finished it. It is a mildly enjoyable tale of psychics menaced by a psychic killer, but it is no THE RUNNING OF BEASTS. |
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Post by andydecker on Jun 27, 2024 8:42:06 GMT
I am currently reading their third joint effort, NIGHT SCREAMS, and will reserve judgment until I finish it. Ok, I finished it. It is a mildly enjoyable tale of psychics menaced by a psychic killer, but it is no THE RUNNING OF BEASTS. Good to know.
I will never understand how Malzberg managed to produce to many novels in so few years. "In 1972 I had written nine novels, in 1971 a dozen, in 1970 fourteen", he wrote in a foreword. In 1973 he wrote at least another ten, the Lone Wolf series among them and a few of his better known sf books.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 27, 2024 12:46:21 GMT
I will never understand how Malzberg managed to produce to many novels in so few years. They are typically rather short. |
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Post by andydecker on Jun 28, 2024 18:36:40 GMT
I will never understand how Malzberg managed to produce to many novels in so few years. They are typically rather short. They are. I am not sure they work, maybe are in part even unreadable today. But they were original concepts, always different and versus the mainstream. And he must have written them at a rate of one a month. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 28, 2024 18:44:12 GMT
They are typically rather short. They are. I am not sure they work, maybe are in part even unreadable today. But they were original concepts, always different and versus the mainstream. And he must have written them at a rate of one a month. I remember very little of the ones I read in the 70s, but I feel one of his aims was épater les bourgeois. In one of them---possibly THE FALLING ASTRONAUTS---he speculates about whether the Apollo crew had sex while in space. |
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Post by andydecker on Jun 28, 2024 20:06:31 GMT
I remember very little of the ones I read in the 70s, but I feel one of his aims was épater les bourgeois. In one of them---possibly THE FALLING ASTRONAUTS---he speculates about whether the Apollo crew had sex while in space. Medical experiments in zero gravity - they would have been negligent not to do it. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 29, 2024 14:07:38 GMT
I remember very little of the ones I read in the 70s, but I feel one of his aims was épater les bourgeois. In one of them---possibly THE FALLING ASTRONAUTS---he speculates about whether the Apollo crew had sex while in space. Medical experiments in zero gravity - they would have been negligent not to do it. I was not questioning the scientific soundness of it. |
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