Sunday, August 18, 2024
On this day in movie history - Wind River (2017)
On this day in movie history - Factotum (2006)
Born on this day – Patrick Swayze:
Born on this day – Martin Mull:
Born on this day – Gail Fisher:
Born on this day – Brian Aldiss:
Credits:
Books:
50 x 50: The mini-sagas (2012); A Book of
Contemporary Nightmares (1977); A Brian Aldiss Omnibus (1969); A Century of
Science Fiction (1962); A Prehistory of Mind / poems (2008); A Rude Awakening
(1978); A Science Fiction Argosy (1972); A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007); A
Soldier Erect (1971); A Tupolev Too Far (1986); Affairs at Hampden Ferrers
(2004); Alpha 3 (1972); Alpha 4 (1973); Alpha One (1970); An ABC of Science
Fiction (1966); An Exile on Planet Earth (2012); An Island Called Moreau
(1981); And the Lurid Glare of the Comet (1986); Andromeda 1 (1976);
Anticipations (1978); Antigrav (1975); Art After Apogee The Relationships
Between an Idea, a Story, and Painting (2000); Astounding Analog Reader, Book 1
(1972); Astounding Analog Reader, Book 2 (1973); At the Caligula Hotel / poems
(1995); Backdrop of Stars (1968); Barefoot in the Head (1969); Best Fantasy
Stories (1962); Best Horror Stories 2 (1965); Best Science Fiction Stories of
Brian W. Aldiss (1965); Best SF 2 (1956); Best SF 7 (1970); Best SF Stories
from New Worlds (1969); Best SF Stories of Brian W Aldiss (1988); Best SF: 1967
/ aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 1 (1968); Best SF: 1968 / aka The Year's
Best Science Fiction 2 (1969); Best SF: 1969 / aka The Year's Best Science
Fiction 3 (1969); Best SF: 1970 / aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 4 (1971);
Best SF: 1971 / aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 5 (1972); Best SF: 1972 /
aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 6 (1973); Best SF: 1973 / aka The Year's
Best Science Fiction 7 (1974); Best SF: 1974 / aka The Year's Best Science
Fiction 8 (1975); Best SF: 1975 / aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 9 (1976);
Beyond Reality (1979); Beyond Singularity (2005); Beyond Tomorrow (1977);
Billion Year Spree (1973); Blue Motel (1994); Book of Mini-Sagas (1985); Book
of Mini-Sagas II (1988); Brothers of the Head (1977); Bury My Heart at W.H.
Smith's (1990); But Who Can Replace Man? (1958); Catastrophia (2010);
Celebration (2008); Christmas Stars (1992); Cities and Stones (1966); Cities of
Wonder (1966); Collected Essays (2013); Comfort Zone (2013); Comic Inferno /
aka The Book of Brian Aldiss (1972); Constellations (2005); Cracken at Critical
/ aka The Year before Yesterday (1987); Creations (1983); Creatures from Beyond
(1975); Cretan Teat (2001); Cryptozoic! / aka An Age (1967); Cultural Breaks
(2005); Dangerous Visions (1967); Dangerous Visions 1 (1967); Dante's Disciples
(1996); Dark Fantasies (1989); Dark Stars (1969); Daw 30th Anniversary Science
Fiction and Fantasy Anthology (2002); Daw 30th Anniversary Science Fiction
Anthology (2002); Decade the 1940's (1975); Decade the 1950's (1976); Decade
the 1960's (1977); Dimension X (1970); Dinosaurs! (1990); Dracula Unbound
(1991); Earth Is but a Star (2001); Earth is the Strangest Planet (1977);
Earthworks (1965); Elemental (2006); Elsewhere X 3 (1974); Enemies of the
System (1978); Epoch (1975); Equator (1973); Evil Earths (1975); Factions
(1974); Farewell to a Child (1983); Farewell, Fantastic Venus! / aka All About
Venus (1968); Final Stage (1974); Finches of Mars (2012); First Voyages (1981);
Flotsam Fantasique (2013); Foreign bodies (1981); Forgotten Life (1988); Four
For Fantasy (2013); Four for the Future (1969); Frankenstein Unbound (1973);
Galactic Empires 1 (1976); Galactic Empires 2 (1976); Galaxies Like Grains of
Sand / aka The Canopy of Time (1959); Gaslight and Ghosts (1988); Gateways
(2010); Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987); Greybeard (1964);
HARM (2007); Helliconia Spring (1982); Helliconia Summer (1983); Helliconia
Winter (1985); Hell's Cartographers (1975); Home Life with Cats (1992);
Hothouse / aka The Long Afternoon of Earth (1961); Immortals (1998); In the
Field of Fire (1987); In the Twinkling of an Eye (2015); Infinite Jests (1974);
Intangibles Inc. (1969); Interpreter / aka Bow Down to Nul (1960); Introducing
Science Fiction (1967); Invaders! (1993); Isaac Asimov's Mars (1991); Isaac
Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (1988); Isaac Asimov's Solar System (1999);
Jocasta (2004); Lambda I (1964); Last Orders (1977); Lemistry (2011); Life in
the West (1980); London Tales of Terror (1972); Man in His Time (1989); Mars
Probes (2002); Masterpieces (2001); Men and Machines (1970); Mind in Chains
(1970); Mind to Mind (1971); Mini Sagas (1997); Mini Sagas 1999 (1999); Modern
Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction (1994); Modern Science Fiction (1974);
Moon Shots (1999); More Penguin Science Fiction (1963); Moreau's Other Island
(1980); Mortal Morning / poems (2011); Mutants! (1974); Neanderthal Planet
(1969); Nebula Award Stories 1 (1966); Nebula Award Stories 2 (1966); Nebula
Awards Showcase 2001 (2001); New Arrivals, Old Encounters (1979); New Worlds
(1997); New Worlds 1 (1991); New Worlds 2 (1992); New Worlds 3 (1993); New
Worlds 7 (1974); New Worlds 9 (1975); New Worlds: An Anthology (2004); New
Writing 4 (1995); New Writings in SF 1 (1964); New Writings in SF 10 (1966);
New Writings in SF 22 (1973); New Writings in SF 23 (1973); New Writings in SF
24 (1974); New Writings in SF 25 (1975); New Writings in SF 27 (1975); New
Writings in SF 28 (1975); New Writings in SF 29 (1976); New Writings in SF 30
(1977); No Time Like Tomorrow (1959); Non-Stop / aka Starship (1958); Not the
Only Planet (1998); Nova 1 (1970); Nova 2 (1972); Nova 3 (1973); Nova 4 (1974);
Now We Are Sick (1994); On Our Way to the Future (1970); One Hundred Years of
Science Fiction (1968); Orbit 12 (1973); Orbit 15 (1974); Orbit 2 (1967); Other
Edens (1987); Other Edens II (1988); Other Edens III (1989); Outwards from
Earth (1974); Penguin Science Fiction (1961); Perchance to Wake (2016);
Perilous Planets (1978); Perpetual Light (1982); Pile / poems (1979); Plutonian
Monologue On His Wife's Death (2000); Remembrance Day (1993); Report on
Probability A (1968); Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder (1969); Rooms of
Paradise (1979); Ruins (1986); Sanity and the Lady (2005); Science Against Man
(1970); Science Fiction A to Z (1982); Science Fiction Art (1975); Science
Fiction as Science Fiction (1978); Science Fiction Blues (1988); Science
Fiction Horizons No. 1 (1968); Science Fiction: The Best of 2002 (2003);
Seasons in Flight (1984); Sense of Wonder (2023); Sex and the Black Machine
(1988); Sightlines (2001); Somewhere East of Life (1994); Songs from the
Steppes / poems (2014); Songs from the Steppes of Central Asia Selected Poems
of Makhtumkuli (1995); Souls in Metal (1977); Space 2 (1974); Space Gladiators
(1989); Space Odysseys (1974); Space Opera (1974); Space, Time and Nathaniel
(1957); Spectrum 2 (1962); Spectrum 3 (1963); Stars of Albion (1979); Starswarm
(1954); Strange Orbits (1976); Strangeness (1977); Super-State (2002);
Supertoys Last All Summer Long (2001); Supertoys Trilogy (2014); Tales from the
Forbidden Planet (1987); Tales from the Planet Earth (1986); Tales in Space
(1995); Tales in Time (1997); Tales of Science Fiction (1964); Tales of Terror
From Outer Space (1975); Tales of Unease (1966); The 1977 Annual World's Best
SF (1977); The 1990 Annual World's Best SF (1990); The Airs of Earth (1963);
The Amis Story Anthology (1992); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 12th
Series (1963); The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 17th Series (1968);
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 8th Series (1959); The Best from
Fantasy and Science Fiction 9th Series (1959); The Best Horror Stories from the
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1988); The Best of British SF 2
(1977); The Best of Crank! (1998); The Best of Interzone (1996); The Best of
Modern Horror (1989); The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977); The Brightfount
Diaries (1955); The British Fantasy Society - a Celebration (2006); The City
2000 A. D. (1976); The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s (2013); The Complete
Short Stories: The 1960s (2015); The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s Part 1
(2015); The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s Part 3 (2015); The Complete Short
Stories: The 1960s Part 4 (2015); The Dark Light Years (1964); The Dark Sun
Rises (2002); The Daymakers (2014); The Detached Retina (1988); The Drabble
Project (1988); The Eighty-minute Hour (1974); The Furthest Horizon (2000); The
Future in Question (1980); The Future Makers (1968); The Golden Age of Science
Fiction (1981); The Good Old Stuff (1995); The Great SF Stories 19 (1989); The
Great SF Stories 20 (1990); The Great SF Stories 23 (1991); The Hand-Reared Boy
(1970); The Ides of Tomorrow (1976); The Inner Landscape (1969); The Invention
of Happiness (2013); The Magic of the Past (1987); The Malacia Tapestry (1976);
The Male Response (1961); The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction (2002); The
Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road (2002); The Moment of Eclipse (1970); The
New Improved Sun (1975); The New Nature of the Catastrophe (1993); The New
Tomorrows (1971); The Night Fantastic (1991); The Pale Shadow of Science
(1986); The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973); The Penguin World Omnibus
of Science Fiction (1977); The Primal Urge (1961); The Road to Science Fiction
3 (1979); The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998); The Saliva Tree (1966); The
Science Fictional Dinosaur (1982); The Secret of This Book / aka Common Clay
(1995); The shape of further things (1970); The Solaris Book of New Science
Fiction (2007); The Starry Messenger (2006); The Traps of Time (1968); The
Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman (1998); The Ultimate
Frankenstein (1991); The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (1982); The
Unfriendly Future (1965); The Wizards of Odd (1996); The World Treasury of
Science Fiction (1989); The Year 2000 (1970); The Year's Best Fantasy and
Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993); The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh
Annual Collection (1993); The Year's Best Science Fiction Ninth Annual
Collection (1992); This Side of Infinity (1972); This Way to the End Times
(2016); This World and Nearer Ones (1979); Three Types of Solitude (2019); Time
Travelers (1997); To Follow a Star (1977); Top Science Fiction (1984); Trillion
Year Spree (1986); Tropical Chills (1988); Twelve Tomorrows 2013 (2013); Twenty
Houses of the Zodiac (1979); Universe 2 (1992); Universe 3 (1994); Universe 6
(1976); Universe 7 (1977); Vanguard from Alpha (1959); Visions of Wonder
(1996); Walcot (2009); Weird Shadows from Beyond (1965); Weird Tales from
Shakespeare (1994); Welcome to the Greenhouse (2011); Werewolf! (1979); When
The Feast is Finished (1994); White Mars / aka The Mind Set Free: A
21st-Century Utopia (1999); Who Can Replace a Man? (1966); World's Best Science
Fiction 1967 (1967); World's Best Science Fiction 1968 (1968); World's Best
Science Fiction 1969 (1969); xo Orpheus (2013); Year's Best SF 5 (2000); Year's
Best SF 7 (2002); Yet More Penguin Science Fiction (1964); Zenith (1989).
Movies and television:
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); Arena
(1994); Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (1993); Brothers of
the Head (2005); Crawlspace (2009); Did You See..? (1984); Drug-Taking and the
Arts (1993); Everyman (1986); Frankenstein Unbound (1990); John Wyndham: The
Invisible Man of Science Fiction (2005); Let's Imagine (1962); Natural History
of an Alien (1998); New Nightmares (1993); Omnibus (1973); On Reflection
(1971); On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000); Panorama (1969); Prisoners of
Gravity (1991–1994); Read All About It (1976); Right to Reply (1995);
Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. the Film (2007); Speaking Volumes (1991);
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); The Book Programme (1975); The
Electric Dreamer: Remembering Philip K. Dick (2007); The Martians and Us
(2006); The Real History of Science Fiction (2014); The Ultimate Survivor
(2011); The War of the Worlds: Great Books (1994); Time Out of Mind (1979);
Timeshift (2006).
Recommended reading - The Barbarous Coast (1956)
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-0307279033
Wally Lamb, on writing:
The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
- Wally Lamb.