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bruce sterling doing sinister dexter. now that would be sweet...

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steven lenfant terrible

oh, & in my books pat cadigan whup william gibson's pale butt every time she sets words to print.

hey, what about inviting rudy rucker along to play with the 2000ad toys as well. whoah, if john wagner is too busy to write a roobo-hunter novel, rudy's the business.

just rememembered another THE MOVEMENT (aka cyberpunk)?2000ad connection: john shirley's work for the aborted strontium dog tv series.

steven l'enfant terrible

i know that i've stated this before, but i think it's an idea that bears tremendous promise:

stephen baxter (the current great white hope of english sf, for all you "media"-types) is on the record for being a huge comics fan. rebellion should approach him.

pat cadigan (the seminal queen of THE MOVEMENT aka cyberpunk) has recently had to resort to writing 'lost in space' franchise books. she could do such wonders with 2000ad characters & concepts.

loved alan dean foster's novelisations as well (particularly 'dark star', & his ghostwriting of 'star wars' [episode 4: the new hope] contained some wonderful prose), but as a writer i think that he's gone tremendously downhill in the last decade or so (glory stones was utter bilge, not remotely near the dizzying heights he scaled with 'nor crystal tears'). vonda mcintyre did absolute miracles with her novelisations of those trek films too.

oh, & whilst we're talking books, who else thought that the opening scene in greg egan's incendinary 'distress' read like brendan mccarthy illustrated dredd?

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steven l'enfant terrible

plus there's that erotic tension that's always existed between dredd & anderson, & also manifested itself with galen demarco.

i was refering to the tension from the reader's point of view, not dredd's.

thre was definitely tension there from galen's pov.

cheers,

steven l'enfant terrible

yes, very homo-erotic that one.

john smith's someone that's had much to say about the erotic aspects of dredd.

plus there's that erotic tension that's always existed between dredd & anderson, & also manifested itself with galen demarco.

so long as you don't let sondra marshak and myrna culbreath any way near the franchise.

steven l'enfant terrible

Nice image that one steven!

scojo

thanks, scojo. what is used to manufacture cosmetic products never ceases to amaze me.

steven l'enfant terrible

i heard that it was angelina di griz. definitely no visually annoying over-collagened (which incidently, is extracted from cows' buttocks. keep that in mind next time your snogging yr tomb raider pillow case, kids) lips & absurdly stuffed bosoms there.

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steven lenfant terrible

didn't the justice department accelarate cadet graduations in response to the massive judge death toll in necropolis?

steven l'enfant terrible

John is the king of make it all up star trek it is'na gonna hold cap'n dilithium crystals malarky!


sorry, scojo, but i have to disagree with you there.

john's stories & the characters within them are deeply embedded in real world concepts, art & culture, magickal lore & extrapolations on cutting edge science. unlike star trek & the onerwhelming majority of "media sf" which rehashes generic sci-fi props & tropes which are either based on invalidated theory or smoke & mirrors created by pulp hacks to hide their naivety.

(eg "hard light holograms"--geez louise, what part of light don't you understand? red dwarf had the most logical & realistic take on hologrammatic characters, & rimmer was a satirical response to trek).

thus john's characters don't bog the storytelling with great wads of exposition no expository dialogue from them; meaning is revealled by the readers own knowledge & the dramatic context in which they are spoken. would you explain the underlying principles behind the video cassette recorder & television transmission every time you ask your mum to set the vid so that you don't miss baywatch cos you want to surf the net instead?

steven l'enfant terrible

Please also bear in mind that although you might get your Prog on the day of publication, we have a number of overseas readers using this board who may not see the current issue for a number of weeks.

speaking of which, i picked up the latest prog over here in oz last week, turned straight past tor cyan & durham red to pussyfoot 5 (which i have been enjoying immensely), loved the labelling on the vent door ("CL/CHE" indeed, john!), still no sign of the alleged "psychobabble" that was harped on about like the chorus line in a greek tragedy on this board, turned the pages, read, oh dear that i imagine that would hurt a lot indeed, turned the page, still no "psychobabble" in sight, the suggestion of ominious events awaiting our intrepid adventures by the vatican... what's this aat the bottom of this page: "the end"?

looking forward immensely to the next story, john.

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steven l'enfant terrible

at least when eric & ernie shared a bedroom together, eric smoked a pipe in order to convey his inherent heterosexuality to the audience (i kid you not!).

a deeplyscandalised steven l'enfant terrible

Couldn't let him live now.

Take it from me - He didn't want to.

who, kraken or scojo?;)

steven l'enfant terrible

oh & i have it from an extremely reliable source that vector 13 returns in prog 2002. the first case deals with how scojo & milo are the one & same person.

this is why 'necropolis' is my fave of the dredd epics; the seamless ease with which john so masterfully weaves all those seemingly disparate plot threads (judda, kraken, the democracy movement, judge giant, 'a question of judgement', the deadman, etc) together is just pure epiphany. & you get sumptuously painted carlos ezquerra artwork to boot!

cheers,

steven

of course, that should read "consensus", not "concensus" (going a bit lewis carroll there, most probably due the mental concussion that the current electoral debnate here in oz is imposing upon this island continent).

cheers,
steven

speaking of novelisations, what is the general concensus on terry bisson's book of the stallone film?

i'm an immense fan of bisson's own work (his 'bears discover fire' anthology is a great place to begin, but i remember not being very taken with the movie novelisation at the time i read it (though there is a great shower scene... oh, read the thing & find out for yourself). possibly this might have a lot to do with the material he was having to work with (despite reading toothy since 77 i still haven't actually seen the film), or maybe i was just cranky that instead of writing a brand new, original bisson book he was having to pay the bills.

hmmm, your thoughts chaps & chapettes,

steven lenfant terrible