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[14 Apr 2008|04:09pm] |
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Over the past few months, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) johnaldis and I have been cataloguing the Warwick SF&F Society library. The library (which consisted of about 1500 books last time anyone counted) has a fairly diverse collection of books, ranging from modern classics of the genre, right through to utter drivel. Some of the latter is "of its time" - tat by today's standards, but when considered in context it sort of hangs together, although there's some other stuff which one has difficulty imagining was ever any good (for some reason, for example, we appear to have acquired an entire cupboard full of Star Trek tie-in novelisations).
Halfway through an afternoon's careful cataloguing, John handed me Agent of Chaos by Norman Spinrad, and said "I bet you can't read the blurb on the back of this book without laughing". I failed:
The terrible dictatorship ruling the planet was the Brotherhood of Assassins, and Boris Johnson, head of the Democratic League was plotting to overthrow the Hegemony and to restore democratic rule.
THE HEGEMONY, that mysterious group that controls the entire solar system, was now threatening to control the entire human race and render Man extinct!
The entire galaxy in chaos; now bloodshed, then infinity...?
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| orbital |
[03 Apr 2008|04:20pm] |
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Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih oo oo oo |
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( Orbital 2008 report )
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| subvertin ur art-forms |
[11 Jul 2007|11:27am] |
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Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint |
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This category macro will, I suspect, make no sense to any of you, but amused me tremendously - particularly the accompanying 'I can has cocheezburger?' comment.
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| alas smith and jones |
[01 Apr 2007|02:48pm] |
Some say that he works part-time as a plasmavore's bodyguard. And that he's not subject to the Blinovitch limitation effect.
All we know is that he's called The Stig.
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| she's more verbose than the gods of olympus |
[15 Jul 2005|12:01am] |
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So apparently some book's just about to be published. It seems that yet another `major character' is going to snuff it, and this time the smart money's on Dumbledore. I reckoned it was going to be him last time, which probably shows how clued-up I am about these things.
Anyway, The Guardian is holding a little competition to see who can write the best parody account of the death of Dumbledore in the style of a different well-known author.
I chose Homer.
( d'oh! )
As before, please nobody tell me if it is actually Dumbledore this time - I'll almost certainly not be reading the book until it comes out in paperback.
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| manifold hyperbole |
[21 Jun 2003|12:58am] |
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So apparently some book's just been published.
( Tongue-in-cheek rubbishing of Harry Potter )
nicholas
Actually I do quite like the books really - they're entertaining enough. But I shall most likely wait until until this latest one's out in paperback before I read it, so I'd kind of appreciate it if nobody tells me whether or not Dumbledore's the one who snuffs it :)
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