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October 29, 2009
Cherie Priest's BONESHAKER
Did you read BONESHAKER yet? It's probably my favourite "steampunky" novel, probably because it wears the steampunkiness so lightly, while genuinely having a touch of the punk to it (which, let's face it, most steampunk doesn't). It's actually a fairly mental alternate-world story of mad scientists, outcasts, sealed cities, airships and, yes, zombies. And the whole melange works. More than works — it has a crazy prologue, a melancholy and foreboding beginning, and then about eighty pages ...
Links for 2009-10-29
"Proposal for a cathedral for the recovery of solitude, buried into the bedrock of Manhattan Island, designed by Gaetano Pesce between 1974 and 1977"
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McDonald's staffer worked to death - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
"The labour office says the McDonald's manager was doing more than 20 hours a week overtime when she suffered a brain haemorrhage and died in 2007."
(tags:crime )
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October 28, 2009
Night Music: Frankie Rose
"Hollow Life," from the record THEE ONLY ONE, is available for your listening pleasure at last.fm. Click through. Perfect music for a misty night, the way it is here in Southend right now.
Sarah Sharp's CHANGING STATES
A book you might like. Writer and photographer Sarah Sharp (better known to warrenellis.com readers as Trixie Bedlam) travelled to all fifty states of the USA. And then made a book about it. Which you can preview here.
Let me be blunt: I've been posting her work here for years — just run "Trixie Bedlam" through the site's search function. I love Sarah's work enough that I helped fund her trip through Kickstarter. So I'm a little biased. But please, go and have a flick through the book.
And, ...
Moon Wiring Club: Melt It Down
I am informed that a new Moon Wiring Club record approaches. Make merry and throw another dog on the fire, for we will have cold visitors from a place beyond weather.
Lorena Ros
Photojournalist specialising in fringe/criminal/pov environments. Superb, sometimes harrowing work. Personal site here, discovered via a collection of her St Petersburg images on English Russia.
Cold War Ghosts Dressed In Weeds
The new haunted park of Europe, via Mammoth:
The European Green Belt is an initiative to develop a pan-European conservation system as "an ecological network that runs from the Barents to the Black Sea". Picking out the Cold War line of division between East and West, the initiative aims to thicken and de-civilize that political line, so that the ghostly trace of a militarized landscape becomes a feral and wild preserve…
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