Category Archives: literature
JG Ballard, 1930-2009
J.G. Ballard My plan for 31st August, 1997 was this: I would finish up an interview transcript I’d been working on, and in the afternoon, I would travel in from Harrow to the Everyman in Hampstead, where I was going … more…
Epicurean Drug Fiend
Look what I picked up in one of the local charity shops this week: a rather lovely 1970s edition (Samuel Weiser, New York, 1970) of Aleister Crowley’s Diary of a Drug Fiend. The cover shows a man who clearly knows … more…
links for 2008-05-09: signage fonts, Richard Price
CBRD – Media – Fonts British road sign fonts. I searched in vain for information about these, a couple of years ago. (via russel davies) (tags: typography UK road-signs) The Believer – Interview with Richard Price – containing, amongst other … more…
Harry Crews
I re-read Harry Crews‘ A Childhood: The Biography of a Place a few months ago, and this clip is a radically shortened re-telling of a story in the book. I don’t know why I didn’t post about it at the … more…
links for 2008-03-29: nine billion names of god
The Nine Billion Names of God The full text – c2500w – of Arthur C. Cl;arke’s most famous short story, in belated memoriam (tags: Arthur-C-Clarke scifi short-story catastrophe eschatology)
Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare, 1842
Persons Represented, Macbeth, Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare, 1842 A recent plunge into the dustier regions turned up a copy of this book which I only vaguely recall owning, and have no clear recollection of buying. I only have a single volume … more…
links for 2008-03-18: boiled hippos
New Kerouac/Burroughs book to be published in November And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks – is not thought to be anything more than whimsical juvenilia, but the title alone will brighten book stores considerably… (tags: Burroughs Kerouac Hippos … more…
links for 2008-02-05: Paul Di Filippo
Paul Di Filippo’s Wikiworld Short story, a year old, not sure how it escaped my notice this long… (tags: scifi fiction wiki Paul_Di_Filippo)
links for 2008-01-23: Pioneer anomaly, Sterling’s Kiosk
Universe Today ยป A Possible Answer to Flyby Anomalies See previously (tags: astronomy physics space Pioneer Unruh-effect) Bruce Sterling – Kiosk What happens when 3D fabricators are capable of fabricating fabricators? (tags: Bruce_Sterling scifi fabrication technology)