Stuff

09. Dec, 2009 2 Comments

Thanks to the folks who picked up on the release of Electro-Pulp (Cory Doctorow, John Ottinger, Paul from Books on Mars, Richard Robinson.

The comments, critiques and commentary have all been appreciated.

I’ll be shortly preparing a second installment and believe I’ll be covering VANGUARD from the 1950s, a digest – sized pulp that was very short-lived. Highlights are a story by A. Bertram Chandler, an extremely violent cover illustration and editing by James Blish.

Since that will be relatively short, I’ll also be covering a bit on the sizes of pulps, from ‘bedsheet’ to modern digest (yech!), appropriately illustrated with examples from the collection.

In other news – just finished Rollback by Robert Sawyer. Excellent! Very Heinleinesque ending that made me feel all warm and fuzzy.

As I explained on Facebook (and to Robert) the era of his rise and dominance of the awards was precisely the time that I basically fell out of reading anything new in the field. So far though, I am enjoying the catch up and look forward to reading more of Robert’s works.

On the paintball front – you know, I thought I was finished writing competition rules, but I guess not. I think I’ve written hmmmm, at least half a dozen variations on that theme and it is getting increasingly difficult to find a new and unique method of presentation. Fortunately, not much research is needed as most of the basics remain the same (when the ball breaks, you are OUT!).

Classic SF Channel has suffered in the interim, even though I’ve got a bunch of cool adds for it. I can’t seem to stick to a regular update schedule for that site, lord knows why.

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2 Responses to “Stuff”

  1. Richard Robinson 09. Dec, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    Maybe – just now anyway – ya got too many balls in the air.

  2. The Crotchety Old Fan 09. Dec, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Richard,

    my problem, lol. Some things you do because you like to/need to, others in the pursuit of money.

    CSFC is suffering because it only falls on the like to do side of the equation.

    the new paintball league necessarily will be labor intensive until all of the ground work is laid (rules, structure, sanctioning of facilities, hiring of reps, promotion of the first event(s)) and will then drop down to background and maintenance.

    EPVM is generating some interesting queries, so maybe I will someday be able to quit the day job (paintball), lol

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