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Number 6 is always so oblivious!
I create lots of one use characters. Maybe I should give them more attention.
I create lots of one use characters. Maybe I should give them more attention.
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Now that you've mentioned it, I realize that I've never seen the film in English, but only in French... many times. The voice actor dubbing for the Russian commander spoke French with a Russian accent, which I must admit, impressed me.
But on a more frightening note, I recall seeing the preview trailer for Ice Station Zebra at a drive-in theatre... at a screening of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. D=
Mark
But on a more frightening note, I recall seeing the preview trailer for Ice Station Zebra at a drive-in theatre... at a screening of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. D=
Mark
ALSO
OMG Thank you for specifically suggesting the Dover edition of Le Fanu, it is wonderful, and reasonably priced!
The /first/ story I read was "Green Tea". Now the thing is, I am a tea addict, I have at least two dozen kinds of tea at any one time and particularly enjoy the lighter teas, white, green etc. So this story was a particularly troubling one for me!
OMG Thank you for specifically suggesting the Dover edition of Le Fanu, it is wonderful, and reasonably priced!
The /first/ story I read was "Green Tea". Now the thing is, I am a tea addict, I have at least two dozen kinds of tea at any one time and particularly enjoy the lighter teas, white, green etc. So this story was a particularly troubling one for me!
Very few people read the books, watch the films, or hear the music that I recommend; but those who do are thrilled by what they discover. :)
I hope you enjoy Hartley as much as I have. And if you do, grab a copy of his novel, The Go-Between: not a supernatural story, but so brimming with atmosphere and a sense of looming dread that it might as well be.
Mark
I hope you enjoy Hartley as much as I have. And if you do, grab a copy of his novel, The Go-Between: not a supernatural story, but so brimming with atmosphere and a sense of looming dread that it might as well be.
Mark
I am all ears, or all eyes I suppose, for reading; though I'm afraid I'm rather slow to catch up. x-)
I've read that he was most famous for "The Go Between". I'll give it a go if I have the oppurtunity. I'm currently reading "A Fragment of Life" by Machen, and "Sirius" by Olaf Stapledon as well. I'm meant to be cutting back my reading to the more strictly weird and science-fiction related books.
I know you've probably read a million obituaries of Ballard by now, but this one was interesting:
http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/rag.....g-ballard.html
I know you're disinterested in the contemporary new media milieu and this article refers to Ballard in relation to computer games, but I still thought it might be of interest for that very reason.
I've read that he was most famous for "The Go Between". I'll give it a go if I have the oppurtunity. I'm currently reading "A Fragment of Life" by Machen, and "Sirius" by Olaf Stapledon as well. I'm meant to be cutting back my reading to the more strictly weird and science-fiction related books.
I know you've probably read a million obituaries of Ballard by now, but this one was interesting:
http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/rag.....g-ballard.html
I know you're disinterested in the contemporary new media milieu and this article refers to Ballard in relation to computer games, but I still thought it might be of interest for that very reason.
That's a fascinating article... and a Ballard connection I would have never imagined. Thank you!
As for Sirius -- what a beautiful, heart-breaking book. When I was younger, whenever I was interested in a woman, I gave her a copy of Sirius to test her reaction. For that reason, I gave away many copies... and reactions varied. :)
The Go Between fascinates me, because it's a very quiet, down-to-earth, retrospective novel that builds and builds and builds into nightmare, with a climax far more disturbing than the circumstances might lead you to imagine. It had no right to scare me as much as it did -- but somehow, it did.
By the way... read "Podolo." Decades ago, I read that story on a winter's day, and thought, "That's it? That's all?" And then, a few evenings later, as I stood on the hard frozen snow in an empty field near a deserted house in the moonlight, I thought of "Podolo" again... and felt a jolt of pure cold fear. I love those delayed reactions.
Voln, please excuse this digression. But after all, you did start the whole thing by mentioning Number Six. :)
Mark
As for Sirius -- what a beautiful, heart-breaking book. When I was younger, whenever I was interested in a woman, I gave her a copy of Sirius to test her reaction. For that reason, I gave away many copies... and reactions varied. :)
The Go Between fascinates me, because it's a very quiet, down-to-earth, retrospective novel that builds and builds and builds into nightmare, with a climax far more disturbing than the circumstances might lead you to imagine. It had no right to scare me as much as it did -- but somehow, it did.
By the way... read "Podolo." Decades ago, I read that story on a winter's day, and thought, "That's it? That's all?" And then, a few evenings later, as I stood on the hard frozen snow in an empty field near a deserted house in the moonlight, I thought of "Podolo" again... and felt a jolt of pure cold fear. I love those delayed reactions.
Voln, please excuse this digression. But after all, you did start the whole thing by mentioning Number Six. :)
Mark
You're more than welcome; any way I can pay you back for your recommendations even in a small way is worth it.
And yes, I can see why you did that with Sirius, it really is a brilliant, poignant book. And yes, I can imagine a varied range of responses. I'll also keep those two suggestions in mind. Podolo will be the next story I read in that book
And before I forget, check THIS out!
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/
I think Heaven looks like this.
And yes, I can see why you did that with Sirius, it really is a brilliant, poignant book. And yes, I can imagine a varied range of responses. I'll also keep those two suggestions in mind. Podolo will be the next story I read in that book
And before I forget, check THIS out!
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/
I think Heaven looks like this.
I grew up with these books!
Although Limbo '90 is an abridged version of Bernard Wolfe's Limbo and should be skipped, it was a favourite of Ballard's, if memory serves. (The original, unabridged version is fascinating; I should reread it someday.)
Fritz Leiber's The Wanderer is an excellent disaster novel: a lively, intelligent panorama of destruction and survival... with a guest appearance by a sexy furry female feline alien abductor and seductress. (Why this book is not well-known on FA baffles me completely.)
The Man in the High Castle is the one book by Philip K. Dick that impressed me. I've never admired his work on the whole, but I would definitely recommend this novel.
Black Easter: again, I've never been impressed with James Blish, but this one book is another excellent combination of science fiction and horror, very much worth reading. (Skip the sequel, The Day after Judgement -- that one reeked.)
You know how I feel about J. G. Ballard's work; and I still consider H. G. Wells the number one best writer of science fiction.
And finally, three books that you must read now: Nigel Kneale's Quatermass television scripts are absolutely brilliant, by far the best work of their kind I've read, and absolute favourites of mine for decades now -- especially Quatermass and the Pit. Kneale combined traditional horror with "hard" science fiction in fascinating ways, and these books are urgently recommended.
>>I think Heaven looks like this.
Close enough. :)
Mark
Although Limbo '90 is an abridged version of Bernard Wolfe's Limbo and should be skipped, it was a favourite of Ballard's, if memory serves. (The original, unabridged version is fascinating; I should reread it someday.)
Fritz Leiber's The Wanderer is an excellent disaster novel: a lively, intelligent panorama of destruction and survival... with a guest appearance by a sexy furry female feline alien abductor and seductress. (Why this book is not well-known on FA baffles me completely.)
The Man in the High Castle is the one book by Philip K. Dick that impressed me. I've never admired his work on the whole, but I would definitely recommend this novel.
Black Easter: again, I've never been impressed with James Blish, but this one book is another excellent combination of science fiction and horror, very much worth reading. (Skip the sequel, The Day after Judgement -- that one reeked.)
You know how I feel about J. G. Ballard's work; and I still consider H. G. Wells the number one best writer of science fiction.
And finally, three books that you must read now: Nigel Kneale's Quatermass television scripts are absolutely brilliant, by far the best work of their kind I've read, and absolute favourites of mine for decades now -- especially Quatermass and the Pit. Kneale combined traditional horror with "hard" science fiction in fascinating ways, and these books are urgently recommended.
>>I think Heaven looks like this.
Close enough. :)
Mark
I'll have to scour abebooks.co.uk to get a hold of Kneale's awesome scripts. You know, until I looked at that site I didn't even know that the Quatermass scripts had ever been released! Are you familiar with Kneale's other work, Beasts, The Stone Tape, The Year of the Sex Olympics? I have a feeling I already asked you a while back, forgive me if I did. I go on about things like this to a handful of people and sometimes forget what I've blathered to whom. xD
Kneale wrote "Against the Crowd: Murrain" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400143/ Which I have on my "Beasts" DVD, which is interesting, but what I'm /desperate/ to read the script of is a tele-play of his I've heard alluded to which has, as the central premise, a haunting in an 18th century house. This haunting suggests some traumatic event, not of the past, but of the /future/. Only the viewers of the 20th century understand that the terrifying visions suggest people dying in a nuclear war. I'll have to google a little harder to find it, but apparently it is one of those "lost episodes" we hear so much of and is gone forever.
As for ignorance of furries and transformation and such in relatively weird or mainstream speculative fiction, man that's a topic for a whole other day, but I can explain it in part another time.
(It's crazy the amount of pretty interesting implied transformation stuff there is kicking around in relatively mainstream literature in the past century and a half. Not much of it is "sexy", but the suggestions of trans-human horror greatly please me. One day I'll shake off drawing cartoonish pornography and feel confident enough to really try and illustrate the pleasure I feel in these books.)
The Man in the High Castle is probably the most coherent of PKD's books I've read. To be honest, I've got the Gollancz Complete Short Stories and I was pretty happy to read them and let most of the novels hang. It is pretty much the original and the best alternative history novel. One that doesn't use it as a bizarre trudging war game or wish fulfillment (cf. Harry Harrison / Turtledove et. al.)
I particularly liked the strange ending, which seemed to me to suggest a journey into our own world, and oh - well I'd have to go re read it maybe before I could comment further. x-)
Kneale wrote "Against the Crowd: Murrain" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400143/ Which I have on my "Beasts" DVD, which is interesting, but what I'm /desperate/ to read the script of is a tele-play of his I've heard alluded to which has, as the central premise, a haunting in an 18th century house. This haunting suggests some traumatic event, not of the past, but of the /future/. Only the viewers of the 20th century understand that the terrifying visions suggest people dying in a nuclear war. I'll have to google a little harder to find it, but apparently it is one of those "lost episodes" we hear so much of and is gone forever.
As for ignorance of furries and transformation and such in relatively weird or mainstream speculative fiction, man that's a topic for a whole other day, but I can explain it in part another time.
(It's crazy the amount of pretty interesting implied transformation stuff there is kicking around in relatively mainstream literature in the past century and a half. Not much of it is "sexy", but the suggestions of trans-human horror greatly please me. One day I'll shake off drawing cartoonish pornography and feel confident enough to really try and illustrate the pleasure I feel in these books.)
The Man in the High Castle is probably the most coherent of PKD's books I've read. To be honest, I've got the Gollancz Complete Short Stories and I was pretty happy to read them and let most of the novels hang. It is pretty much the original and the best alternative history novel. One that doesn't use it as a bizarre trudging war game or wish fulfillment (cf. Harry Harrison / Turtledove et. al.)
I particularly liked the strange ending, which seemed to me to suggest a journey into our own world, and oh - well I'd have to go re read it maybe before I could comment further. x-)
>>This haunting suggests some traumatic event, not of the past, but of the /future/.
"The Road": an incredibly disturbing play that must have left the viewers traumatized. The effect is almost cruel: a ghost story, set in the 18th Century... what could be more quaint? What could be safer? Let's all watch it with the kiddies! And then, POW! -- that appalling finale. Effective, to put it mildly.
I've read the script once, but have never had the courage to reread it. I really should, I know, but.... :/
>>The Stone Tape, The Year of the Sex Olympics?
I have the scripts. "The Stone Tape" is a very good "haunted castle" story, but not, in my opinion, anywhere close to Kneale's best -- although many people would disagree!
On the other hand, "The Year of the Sex Olympics" is very much like "The Road": perhaps too effective. It begins as a very funny, very pointed satire of television, with TV executives of the future struggling to pacify an overpopulated society with moronic shows; but as the play develops, it begins to darken... and the ending hit me hard, right between the eyes.
Brutal. Just brutal.
>>As for ignorance of furries and transformation and such in relatively weird or mainstream speculative fiction, man that's a topic for a whole other day, but I can explain it in part another time.
For the most part, furries don't read. They watch the Sex Olympics.
Mark
"The Road": an incredibly disturbing play that must have left the viewers traumatized. The effect is almost cruel: a ghost story, set in the 18th Century... what could be more quaint? What could be safer? Let's all watch it with the kiddies! And then, POW! -- that appalling finale. Effective, to put it mildly.
I've read the script once, but have never had the courage to reread it. I really should, I know, but.... :/
>>The Stone Tape, The Year of the Sex Olympics?
I have the scripts. "The Stone Tape" is a very good "haunted castle" story, but not, in my opinion, anywhere close to Kneale's best -- although many people would disagree!
On the other hand, "The Year of the Sex Olympics" is very much like "The Road": perhaps too effective. It begins as a very funny, very pointed satire of television, with TV executives of the future struggling to pacify an overpopulated society with moronic shows; but as the play develops, it begins to darken... and the ending hit me hard, right between the eyes.
Brutal. Just brutal.
>>As for ignorance of furries and transformation and such in relatively weird or mainstream speculative fiction, man that's a topic for a whole other day, but I can explain it in part another time.
For the most part, furries don't read. They watch the Sex Olympics.
Mark
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