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Fannish Things
May. 21st, 2009 05:39 pmJust bits and pieces today. All I have time for, I'm afraid.
I have seen Star Trek, and it's great fun. My personal favourite thing of all was that Scotty had got himself exiled for zapping Porthos from Enterprise into the ether - but I loved lots of it, and time never hung heavy for a moment, even when the plot was a bit daft. It doesn't seem terribly ficcable so far, but I'm still musing on it.
I have a new fandom - unfortunately it's so daft and obscure that to name it would effectively give my RL identity away to anyone who's looking, which is not a good idea in an open post, so I'm not going to do it. But you are most welcome to guess what my new daft and obscure fandom is. I'll write a whole fic for anyone who gets it right!
With a surprising ammount of difficulty, I have finally got hold of Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's latest. It's 600 odd pages long, about Thomas Cromwell, and absolutely brilliant. I can't praise it enough without sounding gushing and/or creepy, but it might actually be as good as A Place of Greater Safety. I'm going to have to read it again to make sure. The Amazon reviews of this book are a hoot too - a surprising number are all shocked and upset that they've paid hardback prices for something that is most certainly not another Phillippa Gregory clone. Bless.
I also have the latest Charles Stross book - number five in the Merchant Princes series. The Amazon package is going to sit, unopened, on my desk till I finish at least some of the HUGE HEAPS OF WORK that are blighting my life. Until then I'm just going to have to imagine what on earth is going to happen next - judging by the cover it contains both knights in armour and mushroom clouds. Which you don't see every day, to be sure.
For those of you who asked for drabbles, I haven't forgotten, I'm just rather snowed under at the moment. Soon!
I have seen Star Trek, and it's great fun. My personal favourite thing of all was that Scotty had got himself exiled for zapping Porthos from Enterprise into the ether - but I loved lots of it, and time never hung heavy for a moment, even when the plot was a bit daft. It doesn't seem terribly ficcable so far, but I'm still musing on it.
I have a new fandom - unfortunately it's so daft and obscure that to name it would effectively give my RL identity away to anyone who's looking, which is not a good idea in an open post, so I'm not going to do it. But you are most welcome to guess what my new daft and obscure fandom is. I'll write a whole fic for anyone who gets it right!
With a surprising ammount of difficulty, I have finally got hold of Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's latest. It's 600 odd pages long, about Thomas Cromwell, and absolutely brilliant. I can't praise it enough without sounding gushing and/or creepy, but it might actually be as good as A Place of Greater Safety. I'm going to have to read it again to make sure. The Amazon reviews of this book are a hoot too - a surprising number are all shocked and upset that they've paid hardback prices for something that is most certainly not another Phillippa Gregory clone. Bless.
I also have the latest Charles Stross book - number five in the Merchant Princes series. The Amazon package is going to sit, unopened, on my desk till I finish at least some of the HUGE HEAPS OF WORK that are blighting my life. Until then I'm just going to have to imagine what on earth is going to happen next - judging by the cover it contains both knights in armour and mushroom clouds. Which you don't see every day, to be sure.
For those of you who asked for drabbles, I haven't forgotten, I'm just rather snowed under at the moment. Soon!
