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Mind Meld: Science Fiction Series
The latest installment of SF Signal’s Mind Meld feature just went up today, and I’m again a part of the conversation. This time around, we’re talking about book series in SF and debating if they’re good or bad for the field and/or for readers. Joining me in the discussion are Lou Anders, Chris Roberson, Joe Sherry, and David Louis Edelman.
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Organize Me
Does anyone have any good recommendations for keeping track of notes and/or task management? Basically, my problem is this: I take a lot of notes during the day, usually when I’m reading slush, because a thought will pop into my head and I jot it down so I don’t forget. Sometimes this is something I need to remember to do later, sometimes it’s just some idea to follow up on. But the thing is, I end up with all these pages of notes on my desk when I get home, and I want to get rid of them, but I don’t always have time to cross off every item on a list. And as a result, I end up with more paper on my desk than necessary, which leads me to sometimes forget to actually take care of items on my list that were more important.
So, what to do? Transcribe the list onto the computer when I get home? Using what? I’ve tried doing that with Outlook’s "tasks" feature, but it doesn’t work — I end up just ignoring everything that’s in there. Similarly, I’ve tried using the Google Notebook feature, which doesn’t seem to work for me either, despite the fact that I can keep it open in a tab at all times.
When the (Slush)Gods Came
My Facebook doppelganger got me thinking about John Adamses again, and I remembered that in the course of my research of post-apocalyptic fiction, I came across a book by one John Adams published in 1967 called When the Gods Came. I bought myself a copy of it, but haven’t read it yet. Here’s the cover copy:
Men had fought wars throughout history, but never such a war as the one which destroyed the cities of earth and turned vast areas into badlands, stretches of intense radioactivity where nothing could grow and no one could live. It also produced the deviates, mutants who had warped bodies and strange talents.
But there were others who had still stranger talents, mental powers exceeding those of the mutants, and whose bodies did not bear the sign of the deviate. Their origin could not be traced to an atomic war; even they themselves had no idea whence they came.
Forced to take part in the abortive war between the Eastern and Western Federations, one man and one man eventually escaped and discovered creatures similar to themselves. But to discover their origin they had to go back five thousand years; and the answer lay not on earth, but somewhere in the stars.
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Looks like it’s going for a pretty steep price on Amazon at the moment ($99). It originally cost $3.50, so that’s quite a markup. I don’t recall what I paid, but I’m sure it wasn’t in that neighborhood.
UPDATE: My pal Rightcoast said, in an LJ comment: "John Adams was a pen name for prolific British author Johns S(tephen). Glasby. He wrote a few stories within the Cthulhu Mythos and a ton of other stuff in all genres."
Links:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/john-s-glasby/
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?John_S._Glasby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glasby