"what the world actually did"

[eldritchhobbit]

* I highly recommend this fantastic podcast: The Classic Tales Podcast. These are unabridged, classic short stories by the likes of Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, and H.G. Wells, read by professional actor B.J. Harrison. (Thanks to sword_gryff.)

* For those who love The Dark is Rising books by Susan Cooper and are looking forward to the film adaptation this fall, there is disheartening news.

* This month's Locus includes "Yesterday's Tomorrows: Robert A. Heinlein" by Graham Sleight. Although I disagree with Sleight in some ways, I found the article to be thought-provoking and well worth reading.


I'm more than prepared to believe that Heinlein established, pretty much singlehandedly, the language in which modern science fiction is told. The tragedy of his later career is, visibly, that of seeing the gap between what he had believed in and what the world actually did.
- Graham Sleight, "Yesterday's Tomorrow's: Robert A. Heinlein"

Comments

[sneezythesquid.livejournal.com]

Christopher Eccleston, on whether or not he had read the books: "No. I'd never heard of the books, but as a child I was hugely passionate about LORD OF THE RINGS. I understand the kind of passion that people feel for these books. I think they should be left for childhood. People say 'Lord of the Rings was the greatest novels ever written’. You're like, no, they're not. They're childhood.

Okay, I loved Eccleston as The Doctor, but after reading that I want to beat him repeatedly about the head and shoulders with the Past Watchful Dragons book.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

Every time I read something about him, or something he said, it amazes me that he could play the Doctor with so much passion and conviction when apparently he thinks that nobody should take it (or anything else, like LOTR or TDIR) so seriously. I guess that's why it's called "acting".

[sneezythesquid.livejournal.com]

I guess that's why it's called "acting".

I guess so.

I'll have to put him in the same box I have Card in: "Like the work, think the person is an idiot." :)

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

but after reading that I want to beat him repeatedly about the head and shoulders with the Past Watchful Dragons book.

*cackles in appreciation*