[geeks] Re: [SunHELP] SSA and fiber card being a royal PITA

[Will Mc Donald]

From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>

> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:34:10PM +0100, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> > I dunno if I've recommended this guy on this list before but you should
read
> > John Brunner if you like the whole sci-fi/cyperpunk genre. He did early
> > cyberpunk-y/environmental novels in the 60s/70s.
>
> I've got a first-edition of Shockwave Rider. 8-0
>
> He passed away a few years ago. 8-(
>
> Bill

I remember the day he died. :(

Although I've been an avid sci-fi reader since I was very, very young and I
was born and raised in roughly the same part of the world as Mr Brunner I'd
never heard of the him until I unearthed a dodgy looking book from a box
full of my Grandad's pulp westerns. (Which he used to plough through at the
rate of 1 or 2 per day sometimes, whilst watching TV with the sound off,
listening to the radio and holding converstations!)

I'm one of those shallow(-ish) people who judge books (and only books) by
their covers. (Well, maybe books, CDs and DVDs, but YKWIM.)

I still have that copy of Stand on Zanzibar to this day, it's one of the few
books I've owned that I've lent out and known exactly who had it... and
where. :) It has a really nashty (sic) cover, all purple (you'd giggle if
you could hear my pronounciation of that, trust me) and pink with seagulls
and stuff on it, all very 70s. I might drag it out of it's box and read it
again since I'm done with Chandler, Hammett & Co. for the time being.

Which leads me to films (via The Thin Man, Myrna Loy... let's not go
there...), have we had a geeks film thread at all? Starter for 10, I went ot
see the BFI re-print of Singing in the Rain in the cinema recently.
Absolutely fantastic. I almost cried. (BTW, is this shit being archived
anywhere? I hope not! :))

Will.

(PS Pleased to see you're still able to type! :))