Comments on: A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 9 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9 Lollards in the high church of low culture Fri, 18 May 2012 10:47:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Blue Tyson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-525499 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:38:06 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-525499 Oh, the mark out of 5 is for the story, not for the reading.

In some cases I will have read it already, too, so just reproducing that and adding your link in to move it to ‘freesf’.

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By: Blue Tyson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-517675 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:36:56 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-517675 One more funny, Selina Rosen :-

http://freesf.blogspot.com/2008/01/salvagers-gold-selina-rosen.html

She writes funny fantasy too, it seems. Couple of novels about the same character above, Queen of Denial and Recycled.

You’ll get the first few chapters of each, here :-

https://www.webscription.net/s-141-selina-rosen.aspx

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By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-514292 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:08:29 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-514292 thx blue (hope mr kelly doesn’t think we were too mean abt isaac!)

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By: Blue Tyson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-514099 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:13:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-514099 Oh yeah, and on funny SF – Simon Haynes’ Hal Spacejock series – 4 books so far, with a fifth coming.

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By: Blue Tyson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-514098 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:12:04 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-514098 SF Site, SF Signal? Jim Kelly at Asimov’s writes an On the Net column, too as well as doing podcasting.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-513108 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:27:56 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-513108 hi blue, thank you — and apologies, as our spam filter was holding up your early comments, presumably because of the links — i had to go in and dig them out

any thoughts on who else i should be letting know about our show? i have to do a bunch of promo tomorrow (before this series is entirely over)

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By: a logged-out pˆnk s lord whatnot https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-513100 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:20:43 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-513100 thx blue, we will look into it!

(are your marks out of five for your opinion of our show or for the story eli is reading?) (and who else should in yr opinion we be letting know about it? i need to do a bunch of spamming er i mean promo tomorrow)

the rest of you, here this blue tyson’s useful blog: http://freesf.blogspot.com/

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By: Blue Tyson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-512727 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:29:36 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-512727 Harrison’s website has a bunch of info.

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By: Blue Tyson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-512726 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:28:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-512726 And the Return of the Stainless Steel Rat :-

http://freesf.blogspot.com/2008/09/return-of-stainless-steel-rat-harry.html

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By: Blue Tyson https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-512723 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:26:12 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-512723 Nice pick!

The Stainless Steel Rat is still decent. There are a couple of Rat stories online, too.

http://freesf.blogspot.com/2007/11/stainless-steel-rat-harry-harrison.html

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By: pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-497495 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:20:42 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-497495 Yes, Slugs Nights dealt with this more, but you’ll only hear that in the pub. We touched upon Vonnegut, Harrison (who Sheckley wrote with) and ways that you can be funny in sci-fi. Dick was also another touchstone which we didn’t touch upon, but there are a big similarities between Sheckley and Dick stories – the shorts are sharp, brittle and sometimes darkly funny.

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By: ledge https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-497444 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:24:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-497444 Pete said something about there not being much funny SF that wasn’t satire but that’s hardly surprising, if you count parodies of the form itself as satire. It’s one of the easiest genres to lampoon and most of the SF humour I can think of is more or less affectionate self-parody. Douglas Adams certainly; maybe (random statistic alert) half the gags in Futurama are directly playing with the form. Red Dwarf perhaps was more straight comedy; it was firmly embedded in and made great use of its SF world but I don’t recall it being quite so meta in its humour.

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By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-497404 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:34:53 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-497404 yes we got sidetracked (it was live!) before we really got into this topic — i was planning to have a mean-spirited go at d.uggl.ASS adams (again) (sorry alan) and big up futurama more

i loved harry harrison’s stainless steel rat as a kid: not sure if i would still like it

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By: ledge https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-497390 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:04:37 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-497390 Great episode, the discussion really illuminated the story. Humour in skiffy, though, eh? Harry Harrison? “The Men from PIG and ROBOT” would probably still elicit a chuckle from me. Philip K Dick wasn’t all schizoid fantasies, some of his short stories are definitely comic – try “The Indefatigable Frog” or “The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford”.

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By: Elisha Sessions https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-497219 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:14:57 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-497219 Only a BIT OTT? You wound me Jeff! Yes, we’re not going to include the 20th Century Fox fanfare in each story. Some will have no sound effects or music at all.

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By: jeff w https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-497182 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:11:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-497182 Hello. It’s great that you are back on the air and I liked the first show.

Just one comment on the presentation of the reading. I was a bit worried that you were going a bit OTT with the musical accompaniment “because we can”. But on further reflection what you did was probably appropriate to this week’s story. (I just hope it won’t be like that every week.)

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By: Pete https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/09/a-bite-of-stars-a-slug-of-time-and-thou-episode-9/comment-page-1#comment-497106 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:40:42 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12226#comment-497106 Hope you enjoy it after our recording shenanigans. Also, if you have any comments we’d like to stoke up the debate here a bit – particularly on the issue of science fiction writers who can do funny.

I mentioned a couple of stories on air which can be read ont he web:
Bad Medicine (Martian psychology)
http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/sheckley2/

and The Prize Of Peril
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/sheckley/prizep10.html

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