Why This Is Hell

Catch up!

( CXXII: Brian Aldiss, Frankenstein Unbound (1973) )

( CXXIII: Octavia Butler, Patternmaster (1976) )

( CXXIV: Octavia Butler, Mind of My Mind (1977) )

( CXXV: Octavia Butler, Survivor (1978) )

( CXXVI: Octavia Butler, Wild Seed (1980) )

( CXXVII: Vonda McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson, eds, Aurora: Beyond Equality (1976) )

( CXXVIII: James Tiptree, Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions (1981) )

( CXXIX: M John Harrison, The Pastel City (1971) )

( CXXX: Samuel R. Delany, Triton (1976) )

( CXXXI: Brian Aldiss, Enemies of the System (1978) )

Apparently I have to fill in a leave form, and retrospectively claim for any I have taken. H'mmm. Spot the faulty assumption. I also figure with the evening, weekend and statutory days I end up working it's a bit of a moot point. No way do I take thirty days off a year.

A bit of writing, and going through the database to track down the articles I have on Tiptree, and work out which ones are written about. I think she will be spread through the book, but obviously needs a chunk in the gender/feminism chapter. "The Women Men Don't See" and "The Girl Who Was Plugged In", I suspect. I will try for one story a day over the next couple of weeks. It's a rich brew.

I was also staring in a depressed manner at a pile of William Burroughs volumes. I have a 1980s edition of Blade Runner, but I think it was written in the 1970s, the Port of Saints volume I have is the second edition (although still 1980) and The Wild Boys is dated 1969, but has copyright dates up to about 1973. Only Ah Pook is Here looks unproblematic.

I watched The Mind Snatchers (1972) this morning, and then:

( LXXII: Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday (1973) )

Venus on the Half-Shell next?

And I note I've reached my tag limit on Dreamwidth. Who knew?