William Gibson's Blog, page 13
March 20, 2009
BLACKPOOL ROCK
The lovely Little Boots ![image error]
KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
Flying Saucers! Everybody loves them.
And they're part of the secret history of science fiction as well. Google Ray Palmer, the one who edited Amazing Stories in the 1940s. Or, say the following two words to anyone of a certain age, in the field: "Shaver Mystery."
Luckily, UFOlogists were equally concerned about strengthening the traditional firewall between science, and imagination.
As time passed a certain overlap redeveloped, to the benefit of neither science fictio
Flying Saucers! Everybody loves them.
And they're part of the secret history of science fiction as well. Google Ray Palmer, the one who edited Amazing Stories in the 1940s. Or, say the following two words to anyone of a certain age, in the field: "Shaver Mystery."
Luckily, UFOlogists were equally concerned about strengthening the traditional firewall between science, and imagination.
As time passed a certain overlap redeveloped, to the benefit of neither science fictio
SCIENCE FRICTION
[Guest-blogging by Jack Womack:]
When I showed my copy of Martian Sexpot to Bob Silverberg, he said that if his publishers back then had done SF sleaze as well as detective, romantic, and medical sleaze, he could have done a novel a day.
"As others see us," indeed.[image error]
When I showed my copy of Martian Sexpot to Bob Silverberg, he said that if his publishers back then had done SF sleaze as well as detective, romantic, and medical sleaze, he could have done a novel a day.
"As others see us," indeed.[image error]
THE SECRET HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
Discuss.[image error]
Discuss.[image error]
March 19, 2009
OFF WITH THOSE PANTS 2
Bravus is getting there, but the material itself remains so stubbornly leaden that I can understand his impulse to moon the camera.[image error]
BLACKLISTED
Betsy Blair [image error]
THREE REAL BEAUTIES
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
The frontispiece of Frog Raising For Pleasure and Profit, by Albert "Originator of Canned Frog Legs" Broel, Marlboro House, 1954 (orig. late 1930s).
Also, the greatest photograph of the twentieth century.[image error]
The frontispiece of Frog Raising For Pleasure and Profit, by Albert "Originator of Canned Frog Legs" Broel, Marlboro House, 1954 (orig. late 1930s).
Also, the greatest photograph of the twentieth century.[image error]
WE WILL BURY YOU YEAH YEAH YEAH
[Guest-posted by Jack Womack:]
There was one thing Soviets and Americans agreed upon.
First let's have a big round of applause for Free World Democracies:
"The music is loud, primitive, insistent, strongly rhythmic, and releases in a disguised way (can it be called sublimation?) the all too tenuously controlled, newly acquired physical impulses of the teenager. Mix this up with the phenomena of mass hypnosis, contagious hysteria, and the blissful feeling of being mixed up in an all-embracing orgias
There was one thing Soviets and Americans agreed upon.
First let's have a big round of applause for Free World Democracies:
"The music is loud, primitive, insistent, strongly rhythmic, and releases in a disguised way (can it be called sublimation?) the all too tenuously controlled, newly acquired physical impulses of the teenager. Mix this up with the phenomena of mass hypnosis, contagious hysteria, and the blissful feeling of being mixed up in an all-embracing orgias
IS GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS, COMRADE
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
From the Earth where Superman's uniform is itchy, baggy, and gray.[image error]
From the Earth where Superman's uniform is itchy, baggy, and gray.[image error]
YOU BETTER CUT OUT ALL IDENTIFYING LABELS
[Guest-blogged by Jack Womack:]
This is the blacklist. As in, The Blacklist.
In 1950, when this was published, copies would have been found in at least one executive office in every radio and TV broadcast network, and every Hollywood studio, in the US.
Among the lepers are Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Artie Shaw, and Orson Welles. They are notable among the rest for not having had their careers destroyed as a result of having been listed.
In Red Chan
This is the blacklist. As in, The Blacklist.
In 1950, when this was published, copies would have been found in at least one executive office in every radio and TV broadcast network, and every Hollywood studio, in the US.
Among the lepers are Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Artie Shaw, and Orson Welles. They are notable among the rest for not having had their careers destroyed as a result of having been listed.
In Red Chan
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