Moorcock, Purple Beard, More Books
Jeff VanderMeer • August 10th, 2010 @ 4:28 pm • Culture
(More about this mega-monster from Mike Moorcock, designed by John Coulthart, on the Amazon book blog in a few days…)
After a week teaching at Shared Worlds and then teaching the last two weeks of Clarion San Diego with Ann, I’m back home again. Here’s a sampling of a few books that came in while I was gone, as an interlude between guest blog posts (which continue through the weekend).
Yes, Clarion turned my hair purple (and I performed a Truffidian wedding). More on all of that soonish. Best moment afterwards: Explaining to a kid that no, in fact, my beard didn’t grow in naturally that way…
(Blurry because the book won’t stop shaking…)
August 10, 2010 at 4:59 pm
I love your beard, Jeff. And what a treasure trove.
August 10, 2010 at 5:47 pm
The purple is fantastic. Sort of an amethyst shade.
Am experiencing book-envy even now.
August 10, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Like the idea of Into The Media Web by Michael Moorcock sounds interesting.
August 10, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Fifty years of nonfiction from a giant in the field. It’s a book that could be used as a weapon.
August 10, 2010 at 10:20 pm
That Bulldog Drummond book is quite something. Even the obvious (and completely unfounded) adulation that the author feels for him cannot hide the fact that the protagonist is a blithering dunderhead.
August 10, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Yeah, I know that not all of those books will be good ‘uns.
August 11, 2010 at 7:34 am
my jealousy of the new books is overshadowed by my need to know more about this Truffidian wedding!!
August 11, 2010 at 11:53 am
Well, it was on the last night of Clarion, after a wee bit of drinking. At first I thought they’d said a “Dravidian” ceremony, which I’m not qualified to perform, but after it was clarified I did indeed perform the necessary rites and rituals (very short), and they’re now married in the eyes of the Truffidian Antechamber and, of course, the Truffidian god. I just need to get them their marriage certificate, which is a bit complex. I am not at liberty to divulge which Clarionites are now married in Ambergris, but perhaps they will ‘fess up later.
August 19, 2010 at 12:25 pm
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