Life's much more fun if you pretend it's fiction

[alexsarll]

872 items deleted unread*. I've tasted blood and I'm ready for the new year; I've even done a bit of work. Plus I've fought my way back through the friendslist (though admittedly Stay Beautiful and the V are as yet untouched). I will document the last week or so at some point, but right now I'm blogged out so content yourselves with some fripperies:

Some of you have encountered my copy of 1967 SF novel Agent of Chaos, which details the exploits of laser-toting future revolutionary Boris Johnson. Within that group, some encouraged me to bring it to wider media attention. Done.

"Censoring is really a form of editing and a measure of maturity in a culturally diverse world", apparently. I wish I could learn to lose my amazement at the human peonic capacity to declare that black is white.

A new one-shot magazine called Final Edition contains a piece called 'Twilight of the Superheroes', which "paints a brutally honest portrait of New York City today and of our lives today, wherever we live. Through observing the lives of some sophisticated residents of the great metropolis, we encounter truths which are both poetic and deeply political". Sorry, but for all the acclaim this mag is garnering among the literati, stories which aren't by Alan Moore and don't feature John Constantine and Batman conspiring to kill Superman don't get to use that title.

*Promoter arrogance has reached a new high in my absence: "Pop New Years Day 2pm-midnight The biggest party of the year".

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

B-b-but what does C.H.A.O.S stand for?

I hope it is something good, as I am still biting back tears at today and could do with a cheery acronym.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

No organisation goes by that acronym in my edition, though the Brotherhood of Assassins has an almost religious attitude towards Chaos. I suspect the blurb-writer on the copy they found was as inattentive to the contents as the cover artist was on mine.

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for Boris Johnston! Well done.

[(Anonymous)]

Excellent!

I saw it today and thought 'bugger, someone else has got there first, I should've pestered Alex more'.

Bravo Alex

Robin

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't contact them directly - but I was out with a Guardian writer on New Year's Day and, having echoed your theory that they'd be interested, she acted as intermediary.

[(Anonymous)]

Excellent! So is it your copy they are waiting to be sent in?

How exciting.

Robin

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

No, I brought it in today in case it was needed but presumably the Diary expense account is up to a copy of their own. And judging by the bit they quote, a different edition to mine.