Tue, 07 Oct 2003
Ooh, shiny!
Sony just announced the PSX.
Want.
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Interlude
I'm not dead, I'm just doing the let's-redraft-a-novel thing. I have
a deadline at the end of the month. It's nothing terribly difficult;
I just have to take the second half of an oversized novel, and turn it
into a separate book that can stand on its own. Once I've done
that, I can get back down to writing the sequel. So don't be
surprised if I'm not around too much this week.
In other news,
Warren Ellis says:
Patrick Farley is possibly the best comics creator that comic
shops have never heard of. He works pretty much exclusively on
the web, producing works of great skill and ambition and
passion and very focussed madness. His site is
http://www.e-sheep.com.
http://www.e-sheep.com/apocamon/
has gone pay-per-view. Sort of. In order to cover his
bandwidth costs and be able to produce work more than once
every blue moon, Patrick Farley has put the latest instalment
of his berserk brand-nightmare post-Rapture fantasy APOCaMON
behind a BitPass barrier. For 25 Yanqui cents, you get to read
it 666 times.
...
If everyone reading DPH right now gave him 25 cents this week,
then you would have in fact invented a feasible independent
channel for one of the best comics creators America's produced
in the last three or four years. I mean, what the hell else
can you buy with twenty-five lousy cents?
Here's a hint: I'm going to go pay, because Farley is
every bit as good as Warren says. And that's saying a lot.
Chris Williams, who should know better than to encourage me,
had to scratch my dieselpunk itch by pointing me at this web
page describing the Napier
Nomad, an insane example of baroque technology pushed way
beyond the bounds of reason. It's what happens when you start
trying to design an aviation diesel engine for the jet age --
an afterburning two-strike diesel engine at that.
Then Arthur Wyatt found me a photograph of a
Land
Ironclad called the Independant. (I'm still not sure that
the Baker Jumping Car isn't a wind-up, though.)
Oh yeah: the books I'm currently working on may be shelved
under "fantasy" but they're not going to have any of
these
titles or these
characters,
let alone feature any of
these
plots!
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