I've just been tidying up my Who books and, for reasons which currently elude me, I seem to have two copies of Scarlet Empress (good as it is, I don't think I...
... From: "Philip Craggs" <turlough_1@...> ... What, the Paul interview will take up the entire paper? I'm sure he's very interestigng and all, but I...
... Oh god, *anything* but cricket. Phil ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more...
... Ah well, being Scottish I know nothing about cricket at all, I was just trying to think of something which the Independent would contain reports on. You...
Quick question - has anyone here who reads/posts on the Iris message board at http://iriswildthyme.proboards3.com/ had any problems connecting to it recently? ...
... I've just gone there, got in read some messages and posted a reply... Actually as a Guest I probably shouldn't have been able to that last, so there might...
From: "JULIAN WHITE" <julianw55@...> ... board ... Thanks Julian. I never actually turned off the ability of guests to post - is it generally a good...
That'd have to depend on how many guests you get and what they post... Personally, I'd leave it on until/unless some people start posting inappropriately as...
Having realised during the current discussion of Paul's Who books on Jade Pagoda that I have very different tastes in sf than those who don't like Iris, I just...
... Well, i've read over 20 novels by John Brunner. Some of them are appauling, but some of them I class with the best sci-fi ever written - 'Stand On...
... At various times in my life I've enjoyed both Aldiss and Smith, though I've not read anything of theirs for ages. The same goes for (selected) Asimov,...
... Your tastes mirror mine spookily, Stuart -- all of the above are fabulous. Except that I might not specifically count Smith among my favourites (he's...
... I got into PKD through Cordwainer Smith actually. One of the intiital attractions to Smith when I first came across his work as a teenager was the sheer...
... The only Gene Wolfe I've ever read was the torturer series (can't remember exactly what it was called) which was very good although, as you say, more ...
... I don't think I've ever read any John Brunner which is strange since 'Stand on Zanzibar' is one of those novels which always crops up in discussions of ...
... I know some people can't stand it (IIRC Will Starr hates it) but I just loved the originality of its presentation (scripts for 'blip-verts', quotes from ...
... ...whereas I prefer his later stuff, except 'Empire of the Sun' which I thought was actually one of his weakest novels! It just doesn't feel like a Ballard...
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino: various points in the evolution of the universe and Earth are described by someone who claims to have been there the Cyberiad by...
... Never been much of a fan of Moorcock, but the Calvino is one I haven't come across. Given my fondness for Stapledon, the thought of a writer of the style...
... How ON EARTH did I forget that? One of my favourite books from my favourite writer. Phil ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW...
Actually, it's not really fanfic since it was written by authors Simon Bucker-Jones and H P Lovecraft, but in case anyone missed it when it appeared on JP a...
From the replies to the question of other sf writers Iris fans like, a few people commented that the authors mentioned didn't seem to have a great deal in...
... And therein lies the problem, I think. You've defined Paul's Who work as 'science fiction', and i'm not sure how accurate that is. If you look at his Who...
... wrote: So, in terms of Paul's magic realism why ... Possibly ... would think ... I can't comment on Carter, but I never think of Calvino as a sci-fi ...
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