Comments | atthe_algonquin: If this goes wrong, please die first so that my final moments may be joyful.

atthe_algonquin

If this goes wrong, please die first so that my final moments may be joyful.

Feb 14, 2011 22:48

Well, I managed almost 90 minutes of Outcasts! I actually might have watched it even without The Bamber, since I'm on an SF roll. So consider this fair warning: I've got a head full* of colorful, sexy, funny, horrifying Farscape right now all mixed with the intellectual sheer mathematical beauty of Cryptonomicon. So I'm in a certain place, ( Read more... )

things i don't like, jamie bamber, science fiction

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essayel February 15 2011, 14:45:03 UTC

Hmm Pwll/Hafgan slash ... sorry, I got lost there for a minute.

Isn't Outcasts tedious? I think someone has spent some time on TV Tropes and is trying to see how many tropes they can pack in.

atthe_algonquin February 18 2011, 20:32:32 UTC

Pwyll slash period == rowr. Although apparently my feverish brain isn't the first to apply SF to the Mabinogion: http://www.serenbooks.com/book/the-meat-tree/9781854115232

(Currently reading, and loving, it.)

essayel February 19 2011, 11:57:03 UTC

Ooh, we have that in the museum shop. I may indulge. I can also recommend White Ravens in the same series by Owen Sheers. That retells the story of Branwen. Excellent stuff.

Outcasts is making me cranky too and it's also reminding me of the SF books that were written in the 1950s, notably by John Wyndham, which were all about the end of life as we know it and the struggles of the few plucky survivors to wrest sustenance and some kind of civilisation from a harsh and unforgiving land. I suspect that the conditions pertaining then - five minutes from nuclear annihilation and counting - are echoed by modern professional creative types whose stock portfolios are at an all time low.

But we're okay - you and Charlie and Alex etc and wannabees like me - because as long as we have pens and papers and invention we can make teh shiny.