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I appear to have forgotten to do this for July. Ooops.
Ah well.
I'm cheating on Gravity's Rainbow - I have 80 pages to go, and coffee to drink this am. Is it just me, or does this look doable? The madness sets in.
Drum roll:
91200 / 120000 words. 76% done!
I've done a little bit of trimming, as the chapters are still coming in long even after losing a whole chapter, so I have written more than that would suggest. There's a fluidity created by the bibliography, so I'm not doing deep trimming yet. But there are some stark choices when I realise that I only have 900 words for Doctor Who, 700 for Blake's Seven and I still have to deal with Anderson (I've squeezed in an obscure series, if only because it has a character named Blake... I am still convinced there is a link from William to Roj, but I haven't spotted it yet.) Darling of the Month: "The UNIT narratives provided Britain with a role in world affairs without anyone having to go overseas (although occasionally they did get to leave the planet)."
Meanwhile I will have to write up the Leuven paper for the collection, discover whether I'm still doing another chapter for a new companion and need to sort out some comedy research.
Into deeper time: there is a potential book contract for next year if I sit down and do a proposal (next week?) and I appear to have had the idea for the next book, something which has been hovering around my head since about 2003, and which is not on comedy. If I'm smart I'll work out how to do articles which would be the building blocks of it, although I can see how the so-what may well come into play for sections. I definitely need to sit down and down a comedy article. Meanwhile I spy three areas that would repay articles from the seventies materials unused. No rest for the idle.
Ah well.
Reading list
- Poul Anderson, A Midsummer Tempest
- Poul Anderson, Fire Time
- Poul Anderson, The Byworlder
- Poul Anderson, The People of the Wind
- Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time
- T. J. Bass, Half Past Human
- T. J. Bass, The Godwhale
- Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night
- Gregory Benford, Timescape
- Alfred Bester, The Computer Connection
- Michael Bishop, A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forbidden Tower
- John Brunner, The Jagged Orbit
- John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up
- Arthur Byron, Autumn Angels
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities- Terry Carr, Cirque
- Hal Clement, Star Light
Samuel R. Delany, Triton- Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
- Gordon R. Dickson, Time Storm
- Thomas M. Disch, 334
- George Alec Effinger, What Entropy Means to Me
- David Gerrold, Moonstar Odyssey
- Joe Haldeman, Mindbridge
- Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
- Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
- R. A. Lafferty, Fourth Mansions
- R. A. Lafferty, The Devil is Dead
- Tanith Lee, The Birthgrave
- Richard A. Lupoff, Sword of Demon
Katherine Maclean, The Missing Man- George R. R. Martin, Dying of the Light
- Anne McCaffrey, Dragonquest
- Anne McCaffrey, The White Dragon
- Patricia A. McKillip, Harpist in the Wind
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Inferno
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's HammerLarry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, The Mote In God's Eye- Larry Niven, Protector
- Larry Niven, Ringworld Engineers
- Frederik Pohl, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
- Frederik Pohl, Jem
- Frederik Pohl, Gateway
- Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's RainbowMarta Randall, Islands- Robert Silverberg, Shadrach in the Furnace
Robert Silverberg, The Book of Skulls- Robert Silverberg, The Stochastic Man
- Clifford D. Simak, A Choice of Gods
- Robert Stallman, The Orphan
- Walter Tevis, Mockingbird
- Wilson Tucker, The Year of the Quiet Sun
- John Varley, Titan
- John Varley, Wizard
- Gore Vidal, Kalki
- Ian Watson, The Embedding
- Ian Watson, The Jonah Kit
Kate Wilhelm, Margaret and I- Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer
- Roger Zelazny, Doorways in the Sand
- Roger Zelazny, Jack of Shadows
I'm cheating on Gravity's Rainbow - I have 80 pages to go, and coffee to drink this am. Is it just me, or does this look doable? The madness sets in.
Drum roll:
I've done a little bit of trimming, as the chapters are still coming in long even after losing a whole chapter, so I have written more than that would suggest. There's a fluidity created by the bibliography, so I'm not doing deep trimming yet. But there are some stark choices when I realise that I only have 900 words for Doctor Who, 700 for Blake's Seven and I still have to deal with Anderson (I've squeezed in an obscure series, if only because it has a character named Blake... I am still convinced there is a link from William to Roj, but I haven't spotted it yet.) Darling of the Month: "The UNIT narratives provided Britain with a role in world affairs without anyone having to go overseas (although occasionally they did get to leave the planet)."
Meanwhile I will have to write up the Leuven paper for the collection, discover whether I'm still doing another chapter for a new companion and need to sort out some comedy research.
Into deeper time: there is a potential book contract for next year if I sit down and do a proposal (next week?) and I appear to have had the idea for the next book, something which has been hovering around my head since about 2003, and which is not on comedy. If I'm smart I'll work out how to do articles which would be the building blocks of it, although I can see how the so-what may well come into play for sections. I definitely need to sit down and down a comedy article. Meanwhile I spy three areas that would repay articles from the seventies materials unused. No rest for the idle.
