I’d like to report that this year’s batch of Bah Humbug! ale is delicious.
I would also like to highly recommend the following novels: Robert Charles Wilson’s Darwinia, Brian Aldiss’ Hothouse, and Robert Anton Wilson’s The Earth Will Shake.
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I very much enjoy your colouring in this one. I am looking forward to seeing the story unfold.
Also, I liked Darwinia very much. Even better: Isis from the same author.
Löwenmann: I’ll have to check it out. I loved Blind Lake’s quantum computer trickery, and there was a great “WTF?!” moment when Darwinia’s true scope was revealed.
I’m gonna look for reviews for all these books now.
I see that Darwinia won a Philip K. Dick Award.
Am I on the right track if I’m reminded of the stork reproduction myth by this comic?
Technically, no, but that is an interesting and unanticipated side effect.
I just noticed that two of the three authors I recommended are named Robert Wilson. Dun dun dunnnn!
Wasn’t a Robert Anton Wilson one of the Authors of the Illuminatus trilogy?
Hee’s what Wikipedia tells us: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson
Yes, he was.
In another bizarre twist of fate, I recently saw The Men Who Stare At Goats; in it, Ewan McGregor plays an authour in search of a Big Story, and winds up in a hotel lounge in Kuwait City, looking for Iraq War related stories. As he sits there, he idly doodles a curious drawing in his notebook, an obvious Eye in the Pyramid picture, with two men walking up to it. This leads George Clooney’s “Jedi warrior” character to reveal to him his “Anja chakra” tattoo, which looks a lot like the Eye of Providence, and the two begin an adventure into Iraq.
While looking into this curious Eye/Pyramid imagery in “…Goats” I realized that Ewan McGregor’s writer character was named Bob Wilton. Bob WilTon!!! Dun dun dunnnnn! And furthermore, the illustration on an early version of Bob Wilson’s “Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati” bears a remarkable, though plausibly deniable (via coincidence) similarity to Ewan McGregor’s idle doodle in Men Who Stare At Goats. Gadzooks!!
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/images/0671816691/sr=8-9/qid=1258059884/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=916520&s=books&qid=1258059884&sr=8-9
But I digress… I’ve been listening to a lot of Adam Gorightly podcasts lately.
The Illuminatus! trilogy is well worth the price of admission.
Ah, Cosmic Trigger – another book that lead to a real weird phase in my life. Weird in a good sense, feeling right in tune with that very bizzare entity called universe. Of course, the number 23 was most important to me these days.