Yes, Stalker is Picknick. It's a pretty cool edition with personal notes by the authors, the movie script and work in progress-fragments.
Tchaikowsky is pretty good actually, unpretentious space adventures but dense and non-stupid, not like others in the genre. I found Children of Time better, but this one is more sprawling.
I find Ballard weird to read. Great ideas and scenarios, but i don't think i like his plotting and writing style very much. Haven't read too many of his books though, two shortstory collections and Concrete Island.
It's winter. In winter, people don't stretch or do any movements at all. We just lie down, sleep a lot and wait until the sun comes up again in march. People are like bears. Hairy too. And sleepy. :)
bears need to realize how important (regular) stretching is, especially if they don't get otherwise movement in wintertime. make them bears live healthy so they show us more cool stuff hehe
Healthy bears are happy bears and today bears walked all across the city (well, a couple of hundred meters) to get some fine pistacia pudding *and* will walk across the city (well, a couple of hundred meters) to see the new Godzilla movie. Healthy bear will provide for quite some time, i think.
Isn't the Stalker book actually "Picknick am Wegesrand"?
also, love the crystaline moon-sized artists destroying planets description, so much artistic potential:)
Yes, Stalker is Picknick. It's a pretty cool edition with personal notes by the authors, the movie script and work in progress-fragments.
Tchaikowsky is pretty good actually, unpretentious space adventures but dense and non-stupid, not like others in the genre. I found Children of Time better, but this one is more sprawling.
very ineretested into this Tchaikowsky dude. it will be my next after Buttler and GJ Ballard's collection of short stories.
I find Ballard weird to read. Great ideas and scenarios, but i don't think i like his plotting and writing style very much. Haven't read too many of his books though, two shortstory collections and Concrete Island.
btw. i'm reading Octavia Buttler - Lilith's Brood it has a very novel description of organic (tech) and sexuality for the most alien aliens presented.
Octavia Buttler is on my list too, but i want to tackle A Memory called Empire next https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/18/18528168/a-memory-called-empire-arkady-martine-space-opera-cyberpunk-book-review or maybe the second parts of Children of Time and/or Shards of Earth. Ah, so much to read :)
amazing book cover too. yeah man, so much to read indeed. remember to stretch regularly!
It's winter. In winter, people don't stretch or do any movements at all. We just lie down, sleep a lot and wait until the sun comes up again in march. People are like bears. Hairy too. And sleepy. :)
bears need to realize how important (regular) stretching is, especially if they don't get otherwise movement in wintertime. make them bears live healthy so they show us more cool stuff hehe
Healthy bears are happy bears and today bears walked all across the city (well, a couple of hundred meters) to get some fine pistacia pudding *and* will walk across the city (well, a couple of hundred meters) to see the new Godzilla movie. Healthy bear will provide for quite some time, i think.
Yeah, i'll stretch once in a while. :)