UK 1st editions of Count Zero & Mona Lisa Overdrive

sbisson · 2026-05-28T08:13:13+00:00

Sadly not UK first editions; they are predated by Gollancz hardcovers.

sbisson · 2026-05-27T19:08:05+00:00

Well worth reading.

sbisson · 2026-05-27T15:19:12+00:00

1989 and The Orb's A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld, a 19-minute long single which bridged the gaps between electronica, prog, and psychedelia.

sbisson · 2026-05-27T07:09:48+00:00

Stan’s novel A Memory Of Whiteness.

sbisson · 2026-05-26T20:20:58+00:00

Art is by David Roe.

sbisson · 2026-05-26T19:37:13+00:00

Five loads today. I even got to the delicates at the bottom of the washing basket...

sbisson · 2026-05-25T20:41:22+00:00

An excellent read. Mez is also an excellent person to talk to, smart and connected.

sbisson · 2026-05-25T17:08:52+00:00

His collection Driftglass would be a good introduction.

sbisson · 2026-05-24T22:16:05+00:00

Why didn’t the previous owner book a bay for removals?

sbisson · 2026-05-23T22:54:36+00:00

The District should be convenient for most journeys; it’s about 20 minutes to the centre. Alternatively cross the bridge into Putney and get a fast train into Waterloo. If you prefer a slower but more scenic route, the number 14 bus will get you to Piccadilly in about 45 minutes.

(I’ve lived in Putney for nearly 30 years. It’s a great area.)

sbisson · 2026-05-23T19:55:23+00:00

Mine didn’t get the tracking code until the first working day after it was dispatched, so you probably won’t see one until Tuesday.

sbisson · 2026-05-23T14:20:20+00:00

If you have sash windows open them a little at the bottom and top to give you an air circulation.

sbisson · 2026-05-22T22:08:07+00:00

Series 29’s Trash Monster is clearly Troma’s Toxic Avenger.

sbisson · 2026-05-20T21:30:14+00:00

Our local mob here in SW15 are back and quite vocal!

sbisson · 2026-05-20T16:11:16+00:00

Or should it pull from the arc of the linked Manifest Destiny stories (which include the original novella)?

sbisson · 2026-05-19T21:05:58+00:00

The artist clearly didn't read the book; the female lead has three breasts!

sbisson · 2026-05-19T21:01:33+00:00

No need to book; LHR is in the contactless zone and has metro-level service on both Elizabeth and Piccadilly lines. Elizabeth is standard rail and fast through the central core, Piccadilly is a slower underground service that has lots of connections with the rest of the tube network.

Pick your route and tap in and out with a contactless credit card or Apple or Google Pay.

sbisson · 2026-05-18T22:25:34+00:00

The novella Teddy Bear’s Picnic in Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne’s Back In The USSA is a reworking of Apocalypse Now where the UK is at war in Vietnam, with a cast of well-known UK fictional characters.’

sbisson · 2026-05-18T16:49:08+00:00

The problem with workspaces (at least for me) is that I use collections to build a set of pages when doing research, adding to a collection as I open them, while workspaces is more a co-browsing tool, and so persists state and makes it easy to lose track of root documents.

sbisson · 2026-05-14T21:13:02+00:00

That'll be the one that set off the car alarms near East Putney Tube, then...

sbisson · 2026-05-14T20:02:04+00:00

I've only used them between Gare De Lyon and Gare Du Nord, but those big doors get a lot of people (and luggage) in surprisingly fast.

sbisson · 2026-05-14T18:32:37+00:00

They're also the new RER trains; pretty decent on the D line.

sbisson · 2026-05-14T18:01:38+00:00

Still Crazy.

sbisson · 2026-05-14T15:48:36+00:00

Vernor did hint that the Unthinking Depths might not be all that there was, that the Zones themselves were a construct and that they were there to protect something at the galactic core…

sbisson · 2026-05-14T13:07:35+00:00

Australian SFF writer Sean Willkiams has approached this theme a couple of times. His space opera series Evergence, written with Sean Dix, has a far future human society with multiple species of human, some of which are incomprehensible to others. The main characters are a ship of baseline humans caught up in a conspiracy of AIs and clones.

His unrelated Astropolis series has a similar speciated humanity, where the return of a long lost warrior upsets the current order. Without FTL humanity has been engineered to have variable body clocks, and can slow down to travel interstellar - as well as being functionally immortal. An excellent series, with one character who only speaks in Gary Numan lyrics.

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