and gaiman would be awesome

i dont know greg bear. where would i start with him?

Greg Bear writes "Hard" sci-fi and cyberpunk stories. My favorite is a short novel called Blood Music, but I love most of his work.

ok ok i take back that i prefer to read her than to listen to her. i saw her a looooong time ago and she’s now aced the speaking skills she lacked in the 90s

watch her here pissing everyone off

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CacrYpM327Q

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fucking youtube has started the nefarious practice of slapping video overlays on the final seconds of videos, purportedly to take you elsewhere with them, but to me just fucking up the ends. just like fucking netflix, which i cancelled. FUCK YOU NETFLIX. FUCK YOU TOO YOUTUBE.

so BLOOD MUSIC is a good starting point? it’s not part of a trilogy or something as it’s fashionable these days? does it stand alone without further references? will it get me reading more by the guy?

I think so. Blood Music was the first scifi book to deal with nanotech and nanobiology and the possibilities that arise if microscopic life gains consciousness.

from 1983 I think. not part of a trilogy. a novelette, not a novel.

holy shit! ive been thinking about that shit my whole life

i’d better read him before i write something totally unnecessary and superfluous

we need the filmstruck of books now. local libraries are too little and kindle unlimited is too shitty.

WHERE IS MY LIBRARY OF BABEL

BTW, i reread milan kundera’s SLOWNESS the other day and it was still hilarious.

(speaking of novellas)

his characterization of such types as the dancer, the elect, etc— *truth*

his admonition to be happy without an audience more relevant than ever— he wrote waaaaaaay before facebook.

btw why nobody remembers gus van zan’t TO DIE FOR as a terrible prophecy of today’s internet

BUT ANYWAY.

kundera. slowness. still valid.



i’d write to milan kundera. once upon a time i thought of having a beer with the guy. but why the fuck disturb his peace?

if you wanna pester him, he’s written some great stuff.

(but i doubt he’ll answer, as he loves his privacy)

IS HE ON FACEBOOK? lolololololololol

I write straight to their publishers.

publishers good to pester. i was just laughing at the notion of kundera on facebook. you have to read the guy. it’s one of his main themes, the nightmare of living always in public.

might work! I don't think much of her myself, but she has so much self regard that the opinions of others hardly matters!

I've tried that with some success.

Greg Bear definitely writes hard-fi. No need for the quotes. It is absolutely that.

I would want to chat with Gaiman too. Big time. Ask him why Norse Mythology wasn’t marketed as the children’s book that it is. Was impossible to tell from reviews or book cover/pull quotes. Had I known I woulnt have bothered.

Ahhhhhhhhhhneilgaiman

Yeyah Updike!

15,500 and counting.

Funny you should mention that. One of my biggest regrets is not writing to the comic writer Harvey Peakar. Normally I'm not one to ever contemplate bothering to do that but I had wanted to do with him for a good while. Then of course he dies before I got chance.

Oh man. Yeah, I can see that.

I’ve never written to an author .... not formally anyway. I would like to write to Gene Wolfe, who is almost definitely running low on time at this point. Maybe I’ll do it just so I don’t miss the chance.

Poor brilliant under appreciated man. I’m probably one of his biggest fans.

25,500 + all due to murakami publisher sharing my review on the facebook

Finished up "Tietem Brown" this weekend, looking to begin re-reading On Stranger Tides soon.