State of the Project

Term and post term has been horrendously busy, and the book remains unfinished. Where are we?

The book:
Vietnam and homosexuality chapters still need surgery.
Epilogue needs completion.
New Wave chapter needs a sentence on Ballard, Children's stuff on Pete's Dragon
Bibliography!


Meanwhile I've given papers on Survivors (twice) and Bernard Herrmann (outside of comfort zone, much?) and need to work up proposals for respective proceedings volumes.

Need to do some prep to teach a film session. May just wing it at this rate.

Read and examined a PhD.

Meanwhile, there is much in the pipeline still"

"Postmodernism, Postmodernity and the Postmodern: Telling Local Stories at the End of Time" has appeared in Teaching Science Fiction, but no sign of a copy yet.

"Psychoanalysis and the Fantastic" is presumably in press somewhere.

"The Man Who Fell To Earth: The Messiah and the Amphicatastrophe" and "Unimportant Failures: The Fall and Rise of The Man Who Fell to Earth" had final versions.

"If None of this is Real, How Should We Treat Other People?" needs a final revision before publisher intervention for Philip K. Dick and Philosophy.

And I'm editing and writing things on sf adaptation for a project that never seems to die.

No idea why I feel overworked.

Completism

I have a shelf of Doctor Who novelisations, pretty well all Target editions, presumably numbering somewhere in the region of a hundred, and stretching up to the end of Peter Davison's period, possibly including the odd Colin Baker. At one point it would have been complete, at least in the sense that I had all the novelisations available at that point. It became incomplete when they novelised virtually all the remaining Old Who stories (I'm guessing the Adams stories are the only ones left) and obviously there were Baker and McCoy adventures, plus the missing season. My records of which I have are not as accurate as they might be - I took a short cut when importing them into my database - and I think a couple have gone astray.

Every so often - as in on Thursday - I come across a bookshelf of novelisations, secondhand. A few times I've filled in gaps. It is an incomplete collection.

And that offends me.

On the other hand, I have virtually no interest in reading any more novelisations of Doctor Who, and certainly would not want to get into the Virgin adventures or New Who.

But, still. Offensive. Careless.

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I notice Arden 3 has an edition of The Sonnets, unlike, as far as I can see, Arden 2.