8 Little Known Facts About Well Known Science Fiction And Fantasy Authors
8 Little Known Facts About Well Known Science Fiction And Fantasy Authors
#1: Stephen King cannot spell the word “succinct”. Luckily he has an editor who can. (The editor was fired in 1989.)
#2: Though he never used it in any of his books, MR James’s favourite English word was “velveteen”, describing it in private as “sensuous, seductive.”
#3: Angela Carter modified her typewriter so that the i’s were dotted with lovehearts.
#4: Frank Herbert was addicted to mulberries to such an extent people often thought he was wearing lipstick.
#5: Vladimir Nabakov found England so bewildering he later described it as a “spacious and pretentious place with maudlin [figures] in various postures and states of enchantment amid a medley of pallid animals, dryads and trees.”
#6: HP Lovecraft was an absolute fool.
#7: Jules Verne was scared of brass bands (though he was quite fond of the sound of bells).
#8: Neil Gaiman once got lost in Soho. He was never seen again.
#2: Though he never used it in any of his books, MR James’s favourite English word was “velveteen”, describing it in private as “sensuous, seductive.”
#3: Angela Carter modified her typewriter so that the i’s were dotted with lovehearts.
#4: Frank Herbert was addicted to mulberries to such an extent people often thought he was wearing lipstick.
#5: Vladimir Nabakov found England so bewildering he later described it as a “spacious and pretentious place with maudlin [figures] in various postures and states of enchantment amid a medley of pallid animals, dryads and trees.”
#6: HP Lovecraft was an absolute fool.
#7: Jules Verne was scared of brass bands (though he was quite fond of the sound of bells).
#8: Neil Gaiman once got lost in Soho. He was never seen again.
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memorising each and every one of these in case there's a test
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there's definitely going to be a test
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I wish I had an editor who could spell sucsint.
Good list, though!
Good list, though!
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I've been furiously trying to think of a way to cleverly add a terry wogan fact
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#9: Terry Wogan did a poo
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Terald Wogan write books under the pseudonym JRR Tolkien
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Sundays
Our weeks are pretty regimented. The same stuff on the same days, never any deviation from the plan. Monday to Friday it’s school in the day, homework at night. Saturdays we go to the library in the morning, play boardgames and cards in the afternoon while Dad cooks us fish and chips for dinner.
On Sundays they take us to the woods and leave us there. We can do anything. There’s no one to stop us. Out come the claws, the teeth. Our shrieks and howls scare the pigeons from the trees, scatter the rabbits through the brush. We go wild in there. We lose our minds.
Then back home for bath and bed.
Our weeks are pretty regimented. The same stuff on the same days, never any deviation from the plan. Monday to Friday it’s school in the day, homework at night. Saturdays we go to the library in the morning, play boardgames and cards in the afternoon while Dad cooks us fish and chips for dinner.
On Sundays they take us to the woods and leave us there. We can do anything. There’s no one to stop us. Out come the claws, the teeth. Our shrieks and howls scare the pigeons from the trees, scatter the rabbits through the brush. We go wild in there. We lose our minds.
Then back home for bath and bed.
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The last Famous Five book Enid Blyton wrote was titled: Five Blow Up A Neptunian Moon
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The alien baddies in an Enid Blyton SF stroy would definitely be unshaven, have scars on their checks, and talk in a rough manner.
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Thanks for this. I will print it out and use it
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dng is a PUA?
Also: excellente!
Also: excellente!
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I'm not sure why I made this but I did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfRPwvuXv4
(features an old toby vok song on the soundtrack which i hope as ever is okay)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfRPwvuXv4
(features an old toby vok song on the soundtrack which i hope as ever is okay)
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might actually work better if you sync it with this yakuza 0 music instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYS4__SqTS4
like i just accidentally did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYS4__SqTS4
like i just accidentally did
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Hurrah! Good stuff!dng wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:01 pm I'm not sure why I made this but I did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfRPwvuXv4
(features an old toby vok song on the soundtrack which i hope as ever is okay)
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excellent
also, as usual, I don't even recognise the Toby Vok song in question, haha
also, as usual, I don't even recognise the Toby Vok song in question, haha
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it was from 2012 and called something or other that i can't remember now
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"intervals", apparently
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should have been called untervals
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This is excellentdng wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:01 pm I'm not sure why I made this but I did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfRPwvuXv4
Also where are the photos from? It feels like a museum exhibit called "How Britain Became Crabs", and it would have that famous quote somewhere from Percy Bysshe Shelley about a man telling you to despair about his works, which he thought would be around forever but are all destroyed
FAKE EDIT "Ozymandias" is what I'm thinking of. Anyway, that, nailed to a door
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they were taken in southend in 2015. i don't know why i suddenly remembered them yesterday (but i did, etc)
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I bet it's not a safe - I bet it's an unsafe.
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The Boat
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... he-boat-2/
We took the boat out on the river.
It wasn't our boat. It wasn't even our river. We had no idea idea what we were doing. It was amazing we'd ever got it started, let alone kept it going.
"Imagine owning your own boat," I said, laughing at the absurdity of it all.
"Where would you even put it?" Sam said. "You know, when you'd got where you were going."
"Maybe they have boat parks," I suggested. "Pay and display multi-boaties."
"Maybe no one owns boats," Sam suggested. "Maybe they're all stolen!"
She spilled half a bottle of red wine down her life jacket and giggled. She didn't care. It was stolen too. The wine and the jacket and everything else. Especially the jaunty little captain’s hat.
"Maybe they aren't even boats!" I said deliriously. "Maybe they all just for show. 'Oooooh look, I've got a boat! Aren't I rich! Aren't I clever!'"
"Pretend boats," Sam said slowly, as if she was quoting something. "Are ships."
It didn't make any sense, but we laughed anyway. I spun the wheel or whatever it was called and made us drive around in circles, great arcs of spray splattering around us like rainbows. I fired a flare up into the sky. Part of me didn't really believe flares existed, but here we were. They were just like in a film, but without the whooshing sound, and not as bright, because it was the middle of the day. No one fires flares off in the day in films. What’d be the point?
"We should steal a plane tomorrow," Sam suggested, as she vomited into a bright yellow rubber boot that happened, purely by luck, to be between her feet. "Or a tank!"
But by then we were lost, a long way out to sea, sinking, unable to swim. No one ever saw us again. No one ever even knew it was us who stole the boat.
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... he-boat-2/
We took the boat out on the river.
It wasn't our boat. It wasn't even our river. We had no idea idea what we were doing. It was amazing we'd ever got it started, let alone kept it going.
"Imagine owning your own boat," I said, laughing at the absurdity of it all.
"Where would you even put it?" Sam said. "You know, when you'd got where you were going."
"Maybe they have boat parks," I suggested. "Pay and display multi-boaties."
"Maybe no one owns boats," Sam suggested. "Maybe they're all stolen!"
She spilled half a bottle of red wine down her life jacket and giggled. She didn't care. It was stolen too. The wine and the jacket and everything else. Especially the jaunty little captain’s hat.
"Maybe they aren't even boats!" I said deliriously. "Maybe they all just for show. 'Oooooh look, I've got a boat! Aren't I rich! Aren't I clever!'"
"Pretend boats," Sam said slowly, as if she was quoting something. "Are ships."
It didn't make any sense, but we laughed anyway. I spun the wheel or whatever it was called and made us drive around in circles, great arcs of spray splattering around us like rainbows. I fired a flare up into the sky. Part of me didn't really believe flares existed, but here we were. They were just like in a film, but without the whooshing sound, and not as bright, because it was the middle of the day. No one fires flares off in the day in films. What’d be the point?
"We should steal a plane tomorrow," Sam suggested, as she vomited into a bright yellow rubber boot that happened, purely by luck, to be between her feet. "Or a tank!"
But by then we were lost, a long way out to sea, sinking, unable to swim. No one ever saw us again. No one ever even knew it was us who stole the boat.
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Enjoyed reading that! Nice one, Davusk!
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*thumbs up* Hurray!
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A Tale Of King Arthur's Court
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... urs-court/
The King called for a feast, for it was Christmas, and so every single bird and every single beast of the country was caught and killed and brought to the kitchens of Camelot to be roasted in the marrow of its own bones. Every fruit from every tree and every root from every bush that wasn’t deadly poisonous in its own right was brewed up and fermented and distilled until it was as intoxicating as a single glance from Queen Guinevere herself. And twelve days of merriment was enjoyed by all who had earned their place around the table.
At the end of the feast, and the beginning of the new year, the Knights set forth for distant lands in search of supplies for next year’s gathering. By Merlin’s estimates there were ten feasts until they brought about the end of the world and the death of all things. Lancelot claimed he could get that down to eight if he tried, and everyone laughed and clapped him on the back, as he drank one last pitcher of sweetly rotting mead before climbing up onto his horse and setting out into the mist of the early morn.
https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... urs-court/
The King called for a feast, for it was Christmas, and so every single bird and every single beast of the country was caught and killed and brought to the kitchens of Camelot to be roasted in the marrow of its own bones. Every fruit from every tree and every root from every bush that wasn’t deadly poisonous in its own right was brewed up and fermented and distilled until it was as intoxicating as a single glance from Queen Guinevere herself. And twelve days of merriment was enjoyed by all who had earned their place around the table.
At the end of the feast, and the beginning of the new year, the Knights set forth for distant lands in search of supplies for next year’s gathering. By Merlin’s estimates there were ten feasts until they brought about the end of the world and the death of all things. Lancelot claimed he could get that down to eight if he tried, and everyone laughed and clapped him on the back, as he drank one last pitcher of sweetly rotting mead before climbing up onto his horse and setting out into the mist of the early morn.
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Agree
d.
Also - Lancelot is a great man!
d.
Also - Lancelot is a great man!
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The New Sound
A few years after the catastrophe, they reinvented sound for the silence, so if you were rich enough you could hear again. It worked by some sort of pressure manipulation within the walls of your skull, and although I’m sure they could have come up with some elegant design for the devices the demand was so high they didn’t really bother. Subsequently it looked like you were wearing suction cups on your ears, the sort of toilet plungers they have in old cartoons that I have no idea whether really existed or not.
If I’d been in charge, I’d have made them look like seashells, iridescent surfaces flickering through visual equivalents to the simulated audio pulsations being forced through the wearer’s skull. But anything can look cool when it signifies wealth and privilege, I suppose, and everyone wanted a pair. They were this year’s hottest fad, even more popular than those hairy sweets everyone seems to like.
For Christmas I bought our kids an hour at one of the sound booths, each of them taking turns while the others stroked their desserts and stared in awe and wonder at the expressions on their siblings’ faces as the pressure undulations stimulated sections of their brain dormant since birth.
Our hour was up before I got a chance to use them. On the way home, through eyes stinging with barely suppressed tears, I tapped out “What was it like?” They replied with several thumbs up, two love hearts, and fifty seven consecutive Ed Sheeran emojis.
Now the tears flowed. They would not stop.
A few years after the catastrophe, they reinvented sound for the silence, so if you were rich enough you could hear again. It worked by some sort of pressure manipulation within the walls of your skull, and although I’m sure they could have come up with some elegant design for the devices the demand was so high they didn’t really bother. Subsequently it looked like you were wearing suction cups on your ears, the sort of toilet plungers they have in old cartoons that I have no idea whether really existed or not.
If I’d been in charge, I’d have made them look like seashells, iridescent surfaces flickering through visual equivalents to the simulated audio pulsations being forced through the wearer’s skull. But anything can look cool when it signifies wealth and privilege, I suppose, and everyone wanted a pair. They were this year’s hottest fad, even more popular than those hairy sweets everyone seems to like.
For Christmas I bought our kids an hour at one of the sound booths, each of them taking turns while the others stroked their desserts and stared in awe and wonder at the expressions on their siblings’ faces as the pressure undulations stimulated sections of their brain dormant since birth.
Our hour was up before I got a chance to use them. On the way home, through eyes stinging with barely suppressed tears, I tapped out “What was it like?” They replied with several thumbs up, two love hearts, and fifty seven consecutive Ed Sheeran emojis.
Now the tears flowed. They would not stop.
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Good stuff, Davusk!
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A List Of 21 Possible Apocalypses For 2024
1. Drought
2. Famine
3. Disease
4. War
5. Radiation
6. Irradiation
7. Irrationality/psychosis
8. End of oil
9. End of electricity
10. Reality collapse
11. Clocks no longer tell the correct time
12. Hot
13. Cold
14. Wet
15. Mould
16. Usurped by cats
17. Enslaved by cats
18. Abandoned by cats
19. Ignored by cats
20. Enslaved/usurped by aliens
21. Ignored by aliens (and cats)
1. Drought
2. Famine
3. Disease
4. War
5. Radiation
6. Irradiation
7. Irrationality/psychosis
8. End of oil
9. End of electricity
10. Reality collapse
11. Clocks no longer tell the correct time
12. Hot
13. Cold
14. Wet
15. Mould
16. Usurped by cats
17. Enslaved by cats
18. Abandoned by cats
19. Ignored by cats
20. Enslaved/usurped by aliens
21. Ignored by aliens (and cats)
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Don't let me down '10', I'm relying on you!
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a short story
https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-nature-of-101510507
(that's actually a rewritten old short story i never finished)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-nature-of-101510507
(that's actually a rewritten old short story i never finished)
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Top stuff, Davuss! And thought provoking too! *double thumbs up*