Resolutions Revisited: March

Still been marking and teaching, so read very little, seen very little, but some useful films watched. Finally seen John Hegley after twenty years of trying (not trying very hard, to be honest) and saw Zoe Lyons. John Bishop postponed - due to doing telly stuff. So:

1. Probably write another chapter on The Man Who Fell to Earth
   
2. Rewrite review
   
3. Write a section for another guide to sf [I've done a plan for this]
   
4. Write an article on slipstream
   
5. Write a chapter based on the proposal on narratives
   
6. A 100,000 word book on seventies sf

24600 / 100000 words. 25% done!

Reading list

• John Brunner, The Jagged Orbit
  
• Robert Silverberg, A Time of Changes
  
• Robert Merle, Malevil
  
• Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
  
• Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
  
• Wilson Tucker (special retroactive award for a novel from 1970), The Year of the Quiet Sun (1976)
  
• Michael G. Coney, Brontomek!
  
• Kingsley Amis,The Alteration
  
• Frederik Pohl, Gateway
  
• Vonda McIntyre, Dreamsnake
  
• Ian Watson, The Jonah Kit
  
• Michael Moorcock, Gloriana
  
• Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
  
• Gregory Benford, Timescape
  
• Joan D. Vinge, The Snow Queen
  

Comedy for April

• Mon 12 April 7.45pm John Bishop
  
• Sat 17 April 7.45pm Andrew Clover
  
• Tue 20 April 7.45pm Katy Brand
  
• Sat 24 April 7.45pm Stewart Francis

Exhibitions for Expotitions

Closes in April 2010

• The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka 13/10/2009-5/4/2010 Tate Modern
  
• A Different View 9/9/2009-11/4/2010 Towner, Eastbourne
  
• Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 21/1/2010-11/4/2010 Whitechapel
  
• Deutsch Borse Photography Prize 12/2/2010-17/4/2010 Photographers Gallery
  
• Charly Nijensohn and Nova Paul 21/1/2010-18/4/2010 Whitechapel
  
• The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters 23/1/2010-18/4/2010 Royal Academy of Arts
  
• Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic 21/1/2010-25/4/2010 Tate Liverpool
  

Closes in May 2010

• * Mrs Delany and Her Circle 19/2/2010-1/5/2010 Sir John Soane's Museum
  
• * Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective 10/2/2010-3/5/2010 Tate Modern
  
• * Celeste Boursier-Mougenot New commission for The Curve 27/2/2010-3/5/2010 Barbican
  
• Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa 4/3/2010-6/5/2010 British Museum
• Paul Nash: The Elements 10/2/2010-9/5/2010 Dulwich Picture Gallery Recommended
  
• Chris Ofili 27/1/10-16/5/10 Tate Britain
  
• Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World 4/2/2010-16/5/2010 Tate Modern Recommended
• Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey 24/2/2010-23/5/2010 National Gallery
  

( Closes after May 2010 )