Well, another week down and a weekend in front of me (yay!). This week (especially the second half of it) was a little more difficult than it had to be, mostly because of minor health issues and lack of sleep. Last night, however, I slept well and feel a lot better overall, and that improves my mood no end.
As I write I’m sitting in my front room listening to Richard and Linda Thompson’s I Want to See the Bright Lights for the first time and am pondering what I need to do this coming weekend. Finishing up copyedits/proofs for Life on Mars and Godlike Machines is a big part of it. I also need to write the intro for Engineering Infinity, and get some general paperwork done. If I can do that I’ll be keeping up, which is good.
I’m also going to be recording the next podcast with Gary. It’s been put to me that we might be recording too often, so we need to ponder that. I think we’ll discuss John Clute’s recent Doctorow/Heinlein review and Robert Sawyer’s blog post about making a living as a writer. There’ll no doubt be other stuff. If you have anything you’d like us to cover pop it into comments and I’ll bring it up with Gary tomorrow.
What else? I’ll try to get my solo “Books I’m Looking Forward to” podcast up shortly. That one’s kind of fun to do, but I’m delaying because I want to add links etc. I’ve also been pondering the joys of unnecessary bonus tracks on cds, editing non-core books, and other things. Will post shortly, I think.
Jonathan,
it would be really good to hear how you and Gary discuss literature in translation. Is science fiction in translation capable to displace native English\American SF? Why is American\English SF dominating the market? How high the level of translation is?
(I`m from Russia, so this topic is really interesting for me and, I think, not only for me.)
I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT is marvelous — Thompson in general is one of my favorites.
And hey, the only one of your anthologies I’ve expressed reservations about is LEGENDS OF AUSTRALIAN FANTASY — I’ve been very happy with all the others!
I hope that Godlike Machines isn’t just restricted to SFBC members, when it gets published. I hope it becomes available on Amazon UK , because I’d love to read it.
Sadly it will be restricted to SFBC members. They’re publishing it, and so far no trade publisher has been willing to risk it.
That said, it’ll likely show up on Amazon.com fairly quickly. The SFBC books usually do.