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Just a reminder that his new book, The City & The City is out today. I just went and picked up my copy
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# ¿ May 26, 2009 21:53 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 01:37 |
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The Powell's event was very fun and had surprisingly few horrible nerd questions that I associate with fantasy author Q/A sessions. China said my Quixote tattoo was "wicked badass" Anyone catch the name of the book/author of the book he recommended that is "half horror novel half philosophy text"? He said it was an Iranian author and it started with an N but he said it way too fast. ShutteredIn fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jun 8, 2009 |
# ¿ Jun 8, 2009 06:03 |
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Ballsworthy posted:Cyclonopedia, by Reza Negarestani Wow thanks that was fast. This sounds pretty awesome.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2009 18:59 |
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So China wrote a pretty interesting article on the monstrous aspects used in Weird fiction for the philosophy journal Collapse called: M. R. James and the Quantum Vampire: Weird; Hauntological: Versus and/or and and/or or? The whole journal is available for free in pdf here: http://freeourbooks.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/collapseiv.pdf China's article starts on page 62 of the PDF. It's worth looking at just for the picture of "China" with skull and octopus. Also the Reza Negarestani article on necrosis after China's is one of the most disgusting things I've ever read.
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# ¿ Dec 28, 2009 19:28 |
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When I saw him speak last year there were tons of nerds asking the same Bas-Lag questions, etc etc. In this big crowd there was one little kid there that said Un Lun Dun was his favorite book. China took about 5 minutes out of his Q&A to talk to the kid about the book and his favorite parts, gave him recommendations on other kids books he likes and ask him what kind of stories he likes to write. Classy dude. You could tell he was really excited to have young fans and he said he was definitely going to do more YA down the road, so that might be one of the ones he's been working on. I see a lot of authors speak and he was easily one of the most entertaining. He told a story about drawing an octopus while on the phone at his mom's house and she laughed at him for drawing the same stuff now that he did when he was a kid. Later on she found an old notepad from when he was young with a drawing of an octopus in a space helmet, to which his reaction was "Oh man an octopus astronaut, that's genius!" and started drawing it again. ShutteredIn fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Apr 5, 2011 |
# ¿ Apr 5, 2011 09:56 |
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Has this been posted? Because it's hilarious:quote:
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2011 05:18 |
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There are a couple fan pages but I'm not sure if that's what he was talking about.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2011 03:41 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 01:37 |
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Hedrigall posted:Looking at that Amazon page, this may be a YA book after all... Last time I saw him talk he said he had a Young Adult novel basically finished for after Embassytown was out, guessing it was this.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2011 03:57 |