The phosphorescent blathering of Rob Davies, a left-handed fabulist
“Torres was driving on Turner Street Friday afternoon when he was pulled over by police and arrested. He was wearing a hooded sweartshirt with a skull-head pattern on it, pajama bottoms and fuzzy lion-faced slippers at the time. He was still wearing the get-up when he was arraigned after midnight at Lehigh County prison.”
The nice contest folks at Orbit Books sent me an advance copy of Iain M. Banks’ new SF novel Matter. Banks is one of my favorite authors, so all other books get pushed aside for this. I’ll post a review as soon as I am done.
You can read an excerpt here.
President Obama!
Well, it’s clear to me that the guy that kidnapped Madeleine McCann is none other than Scalphunter, nefarious member of Mr. Sinister’s Marauders.
My story “The Ship” (which originally appeared in Interzone) is now available at AnthologyBuilder.com, a new site that lets you pick stories from magazines such as Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, etc., and create a custom anthology.
You can even come up with your own title to frighten [...]
Is it me, or does this look like something out of Austin Powers?
“Hundreds of thousands of brightly colored balls went cascading down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps on Wednesday in the latest stunt orchestrated by the man who dyed the waters of the Trevi Fountain red.”
Thursday, January 31, 2008 7pm
TOAD
1912 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 617-497-4950
I got his CD “Big As Life” as a promo when I managed a record store back in the day and really liked it, but I never really followed his stuff since then. I saw him twice last month at TOAD and he [...]
Fuck you, Joe Quesada. Fuck you twice.
Not all of these came out in 2007, and some I have read before. Not in any particular order, but Pynchon’s book was amazing. It was a bit arduous to get through, but well worth it, like giving birth to a litter of circus freaks.
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
Lost Girls, Alan Moore
Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
Deadhouse [...]
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