2008: What’re You Looking Forward to?
Jeff VanderMeer • January 12th, 2008 @ 4:45 pm • Uncategorized
As I labor on the finishing touches to this novel o’ mine, I’m curious–what’re you looking forward to in 2008? Can be books and movies and CDs or something more esoteric or personal (including your own projects). Just curious. I feel like I’ve been living in a shack in the middle of nowhere the last week or so. I think I’ve left the house one time. My beard’s longer than ZZ Top’s.
I won’t be posting again until I finish the Pred novel, Monday night.
Jeff
January 12, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Well, I look forward to finishing my second novel, getting a job in another city so that my wife and I can life together for a change, and starting to run again.
On a less ‘resolutions’ note, I eagerly await Hellboy II, Cloverfield, and Doomsday.
January 12, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I’m looking forward to this crazy Predator deadline to be over!
But seriously, I have a lot to look forward to, with so many anthology projects being published this year, not to mention Weird Tales!!!! I’m truly blessed.
And I look forward to getting a proper pair of bunny slippers to go with my cat pajamas.
January 12, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I’m looking forward to getting some more work out of my singer.
I’m also looking forward to the next Shearwater album, Rook.
January 12, 2008 at 7:47 pm
On the reading front I’m looking forward to Joe Abercrombie’s ‘The Last Arguement Of Kings’ which rounds up his First Law Trilogy, the first two books are a blast.
On the film front it has to be the forthcoming Indiana Jones Crystal Skull movie, I just hope that poor old Harrison can still cut the mustard though…
In personal writing, I hope to get more reviews of my debut dark sf/f/h novel ‘Flames of Herakleitos’ *cough* and hopefully finish a hard sf novel I’m working on.
January 12, 2008 at 8:35 pm
The final season of Battlestar Galactica 2K3!
January 12, 2008 at 8:48 pm
GETTING INTERNET AT HOME.
*weep*
January 12, 2008 at 11:03 pm
I’m looking forward to the new job I’ starting tomorrow (I’m a mechanical draftsman). I’m looking forward to moving away from reading epic fantasies and more towards literary fantasy (gosh, I thought there were only epic fantasy novels, until I started to think, just last year, about what fantasy could be and where it could go). I’m looking forward to doing a bit of writing in my own time (I haven’t written since high school, now a full seven years ago). I’m looking forward to the rest of season three of Prison Break. I’m looking forward to buying a home (*gulp* maybe…)
January 13, 2008 at 2:45 am
I’m looking forward to seeing the Pirate Anthology in print.
January 13, 2008 at 5:23 am
I’m looking forward to Paolo B’s first collection (and I swear I’ll learn to spell and pronounce his last name) Pump 6 and Other Stories and to adjudicating school debates. I used to be on the other side of the fence – complaining about inconsistencies wining about lousy decisions. Now…
January 13, 2008 at 11:16 am
I’m looking forward to new short story collections by Kelly Link and Jeffrey Ford and new novels by Alan Campbell and Greg Keyes.
January 13, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I’m looking forward to reading Terry Dowling’s final book in the Tom Rynosseros saga, “Rynemonn.” Dowling is one of my favorite writers of all time.
Hoping to finally finish my novel which I’ve been writing for god knows how long…
Also looking forward to more cool stories from Laird Barron (or maybe even a novel!). “The Imago Sequence and Other Stories” rocked utterly!
January 13, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I’m looking forward to finding a more stable teaching job, even if that means teaching ESL overseas in the next few months.
Looking forward to reading the conclusion to Gregory Frost’s excellent Shadowbridge, when Lord Tophet comes out this summer.
Looking forward to reading/reviewing more books of all stripes and to see what books I can discover that are as witty as one I just finished re-reading, Laurence Sterne’s 18th century classic, Tristram Shandy.
And I’m looking forward to the time when I finally have the time/money to attend a convention, preferably the WFC one, since it seems to be more suitable to my tastes than the WorldCons.
January 14, 2008 at 1:19 am
I’m looking forward to finishing draft one of The Slow Palace. I met my 200-page goal for New Year’s, and made a fairly explosive impulse resolution at midnight to finish the whole thing in 2008.
I’m looking forward to the WGA getting a good deal for internet distribution and getting back to work.
I’m looking forward to the new Magnetic Fields and the new Nick Cave. Gene Wolfe has a book coming out about Cthulhu, more or less, though I don’t know if that’ll be this year, and I’m looking forward to that in spades. I’m looking forward to Super Smash Brothers Brawl, ‘cos of the smashing and the brawling. And God help me, but I’m all atwitter over Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark.
Spring. Please, soon.
Oh — and getting married. I’m looking forward to getting married, across a bleak scree-littered six-month plain of caterer samples, cake tastings, musician wranglements, and tuxedo fittings.
January 14, 2008 at 6:25 am
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January 14, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I’m looking forward to publishing more book reviews this year than I did last year, and I hope to do so in places other than my own blog. I’m looking forward to reading some classics I missed, both in genre and out (how can one graduate as an English major without having read Middlemarch?). I’m looking forward to new books by Swanwick, Frost, King, Barnes, Morrow, Keck, Ford, Abercrombie, Fowler, Kessel, Rothfuss, Asher, Brown, Campbell, Williams, Abraham, Lake, Baker, and others I can’t think of right now and probably others I don’t even know about at the moment. I’m definitely looking forward to The New Weird, and no, I’m not sucking up, I just happen to love the New Weird and can’t wait to read this collection. I’m looking forward to honing my skills as a critic. Really, I’m looking forward to reading and writing as much as possible.
I’m even looking forward to practicing law to make reading and writing possible, now that I have a job I like (legal research attorney for a trial court in Northern California, which mostly consists of — you guessed it — reading and writing). Anyone sense a theme here?
January 14, 2008 at 2:06 pm
spike jonze’s where the wild things are
henry selick’s coraline
indiana jones
a new blog by m. john harrison
a new elbow album
January 14, 2008 at 2:07 pm
and a new hayao miyazaki film (thanks to Ann’s Totoro)
January 14, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Matter, Iain M. Banks
Moorcock’s new Elric story in Weird Tales.
Lost: Season 4
Catching up with the Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen books (I’m almost done with book 3).
10th wedding anniversary trip in September (don’t know where yet, possibly Morocco, Argentina, or Napa Valley)
Finishing more short stories
Finishing my novel, The Bitter Taste of the World Snake’s Tail