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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 6, 2014 16:50:36 GMT -5
 Finished up Shot in the Face edited by Chad Nevitt. Very nice collection of essays and interviews looking at Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's Transmetropolitan. Highly recommended for fans of the series. |
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2014 17:00:14 GMT -5
That post reminded me I'd been meaning to get that. Just ordered it.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 6, 2014 17:22:33 GMT -5
Caves of Steel is great... my favorite of the Robot books, and they're all good. I have the later one with the standardized trade dress, though... that cover is way cooler.
The Transmet book is worth it? I sorta pictured it as a forum discussion about the comic in a book... I'll have to check it out if I come across it.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 6, 2014 17:28:03 GMT -5
Caves of Steel is great... my favorite of the Robot books, and they're all good. I have the later one with the standardized trade dress, though... that cover is way cooler. The Transmet book is worth it? I sorta pictured it as a forum discussion about the comic in a book... I'll have to check it out if I come across it. It's the best of the Seq-Tart books I've read. I've read the Planetary, Watchmen and Legion volumes. Many of the essay writers have Lit backgrounds so the analysis is more indepth than you'll get on any forum post. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 6, 2014 17:32:31 GMT -5
Really? Huh, that's pretty cool. (so many things on the list to read and re-read). I really need to be independently wealthy so I can read more  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 6, 2014 18:06:29 GMT -5
I know officially think the 1st two posts are up to date. If I missed anything, let me know!
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Post by Jesse on May 6, 2014 18:24:48 GMT -5
I know officially think the 1st two posts are up to date. If I missed anything, let me know! I think Witches: Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy #2 is missing. It's on page 2 along with Swordsmen and Supermen which I think is also missing. Asimov, Isaac, Caves of Steel (Art School Dropout) 6It was The Naked Sun not Caves of Steel. |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 6, 2014 18:52:55 GMT -5
Going back a few days for this: ... The Secret Files Of The Diogenes Club by Kim Newman, a gift from our pal Pol Rua while he was visiting last month. The title club is, of course, the government-within-a-government created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (himself a character in this volume) and originally headed by Sigerson Holmes, brother of Sherlock. IIRC, the brother who showed up in Doyle's stories was Mycroft Holmes; Sigerson was the character played by Gene Wilder in the movie Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. Are they both in the book? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 6, 2014 19:39:58 GMT -5
It's Mycroft.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 6, 2014 19:56:49 GMT -5
Going back a few days for this IIRC, the brother who showed up in Doyle's stories was Mycroft Holmes; Sigerson was the character played by Gene Wilder in the movie Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. Are they both in the book? No, you're quite right, it's Mycroft. Cei-U! I summon the little short-circuited grey cells! |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 6, 2014 20:27:37 GMT -5
Heh, that's pretty funny.. got distracted mid-post. All fixed now.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 7, 2014 22:58:01 GMT -5
Grrr.... I just looked up Secrets of the Diogenes club... not only does the library not have it, the cheapest used copy on amazon runs $40... y'all need to stop getting me excited about stuff that's so hard to get!
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 7, 2014 23:18:09 GMT -5
City of Illusions By Ursula Le Guin Ace Books, 1967  The version I have is a weird squarish shape, and almost like someone assembled it at their house.. the pages are miscut, too.. there's almost no top margin, but a huge bottom one. Plot: The League of Worlds has fallen, and Earth has been reduced to a small smattering of pre-industrial villages that hang on to the the small bits of high technology that still work. The alien Shing use a campaign of lies, spies, and technology to make sure they don't rediscover what was lost. One man with yellow eyes and no memory might be the savior of Earth, or the last straw for humanity. Analysis: It's been a while since I read them, but I really don't see much connection between this and Left Hand of Darkness ... other than they're both by the same author. I can definitely see why this one didn't win any awards... it's very long on description, and somewhat short of story. The entire 1st half of the book turns out to be completely pointless.. a 2 page summary of it would have worked just fine. The character relationships built turn out to be completely ignored in the end. While the description of post-fall Earth is kinda interesting and unique, it would have been much more so with a better idea of where exactly the characters were. It also lacks quite a bit on the usual social commentary from Le Guin... an entire intergalactic alliance gets conquered because one race is good at lying... really? OK, lies are bad. Got it. I didn't need so much harping on it, though. Overall, an interesting premise that just doesn't go anywhere.
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Post by Jesse on May 8, 2014 12:25:32 GMT -5
Heh, that's pretty funny.. got distracted mid-post. All fixed now. I think Swordsmen and Supermen is still missing. I can't seem to find it in the first two posts. Originally posted at the bottom of page 2. |
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Post by The Man of Tomorrow on May 8, 2014 16:41:38 GMT -5
Starting Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Spell Sword (a Darkover novel) tomorrow.
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