My mother fancies herself an internet humorist.
Also, passive aggressive much, mom..?
Also, I hope my dad doesn’t try to get in on the act with “Foddr”…
(edited to add: I am not even close to being on the “Favrd child” leaderboard)
Things Wot Are On My Shelves: rainy Saturday reading edition
Neil Gaiman: Coraline, illustrated by Dave McKean. HarperCollins, 2002, 1st edition, 1st printing
Things Wot Are On My Shelves: Contact edition
(for Faruk)
James Gunn: The Listeners, Scribners, 1972, 1st edition, 1st printing
Gunn’s novel is a fictional account of first contact, co-dedicated to Carl Sagan and based on his early use of radio telescopes in the search for extraterrestrial life.
A direct antecedent to—and inspiration for—Sagan’s novel, Gunn’s The Listeners is still an amazing work of speculative fiction and is a must-read for anyone who enjoyed Contact and for sci-fi fans in general.
You know what this script needs?
To be tossed into a fire.
But no. I will instead be spending the day (and likely the weekend, and a good part of next week) on the fifth set of notes on the fourth full rewrite of this fucking thing.
So, yay.
