bookishness

[jazzfish]

From pameladean: "My partner Raphael has a Dreamwidth account." Raphael's profile notes that zie "wrote a book once, but that was in another century, and besides, it's out of print." It's one of my very favorite books, so I'm quite pleased to see zir writing more, even if it's "just" blog posts. (RSS feed: centuryplant_dw)

From Tor editor Beth Meacham: "Mike Ford's unfinished novel ASPECTS is awaiting the completion of some supplementary material before being scheduled for publication." I'm pretty much thrilled by this. (If you haven't read The Dragon Waiting, or Heat of Fusion, or, heck, the Occasional Works, you are Missing Out. In the best possible way, because now you get to read all those things for the first time.)

Currently rereading the Hitchhiker's "trilogy" for what may be the first time since the publication of Mostly Harmless. (I've listened to the radio shows countless times since then, and seen the movie, and I think I may have even seen the BBC series as well.) They hold up well. I'm looking forward to rereading Mostly Harmless; at the time I thought it was subpar and depressing with some occasional good bits, so I only read it the once. It'll be like having a whole new Douglas Adams book.

Comments

[nixve.livejournal.com]

And now there's even more "Douglas Adams" books, right? Salmon of Doubt and something written by someone else?

[rbandrews]

I'd add to that list the easiest-to-find John Ford book: The Final Reflection.

It's a Star Trek novel in only the most technical sense. If you skip the prologue and just ignore that people are called "Klingons" or "Vulcans", it's got nothing to do with Trek.