Now Reading

[Dave Monroe]

Having taken this out of the public library repeatedly
since they got it in, I FINALLY started in on it in
earnest this past (busy) weekend, only to have to
return it again yesterday.  I was really interested in
it, even more so than I was in Zeitgeist (what's the
deal with both Sterling and Gibson suddenly writing
not-quite-SF novels set in the present day?), and his
nonfiction Tomorrow Now was another recent favorite
(we both agree, job of the future? warlord ...), but
I've always been more of a fan of his short stories
than anything (esp., most recently, the first and last
ones in A Good Old Fashioned Future).  So hopefully
it's circulated back to me again today and I can pick
up from p. 192 or whatever ... 

Also, I gotta reiterate, I.F. Stone, The Secret
History of the Korean War (1952).  Substitute "Iraq"
for "Korea," and it's as fresh as today's headlines
(just so long as they're in The Manchester guardian or
The San Jose Mercury News or whatever).  Okay, three
more days 'til Fahrenheit 9/11 here.  By the way, on
Ray Bradbury, screw him.  One, you can't cpopyright a
title (though Harlan Ellison litigated himself into
doing so for all intents and purposes a while back
anyway, so ...).  Two, such wordplay is also legally
protected anyway (as "satire" and so forth).  And,
three, so far as I know, Bradbury hisself never
bothered to clear "I Sing the Body Electric!" with the
Whitman estate, so ... so, again, screw Ray Bradbury. 
And Mel Gibson.  Vive le Francois Truffaut ...

--- "J. Herzog" <zogboy911 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling


		
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