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Just seen this. Probably clickbait… Jed Mercurio is in the running for WHO??

That might not be too sad…

@thane16

Female authored ‘speculative’ fiction, even May or LeGuin, does seem to be qualitatively different. How would they have written Bayta Darrel? Better than Isaac I’m sure. Though Issac is himself qualitively different to Samuel Butler say. Then you remember Azimov is as much removed from us as he was from Erewhon.

Scifi I like: Star Trek…[Read more]

@winston glad to hear it! It’s great news. As a Czech, the mention of quarts of tinned tomatoes & loads of pickles is heart warming & thrilling! We douse everything in vinegar (or rather my parents did) including vast amounts of red capsicum, cauliflower & baby corn.
When I was growing up we’d eat, every month, a type of boiled, jellied meat wit…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u

I see where you’re coming from. But I was never a fan of Asimov’s writing -it felt like work & lacked, for me, the beauty of other quieter authors from Atwood, to Antonia Byatt or Mantel. In fact, surprisingly, I never read sci-fi or fantasy. My first & possibly only fantasy came from Who, though I recently read the recent Silo ser…[Read more]

@thane16  Thank you for asking.  I had new x-rays and everything is healing properly so that is good news. I also got a new purple cast, yay. It will come off Oct. 20th thank goodness.My arm hurts a bit and the cast is heavy and irritating but”  thems the breaks”.

We did do a few quarts of stewed tomatoes and some pint jars of juice so the mi…[Read more]

@thane16

Thank you!

I did actually copy the entire ‘Editorial’! With my humbly submitted commentary. You know my regrettable opinion of the Beeb. Though I do LIKE the Beeb… but…

I still haven’t tackled more than 10 mins of Apples’ ‘Foundation’. I must sound like a curmudgeon, but this IS a very grown up story. They fatally misjudged the t…[Read more]

@winston how are you feeling this week? Has Mr W completed the tomato tins in your absence?  🙂

I was a bit ill in the last couple weeks & a friend visited with several women’s magazines which I originally rolled my eyes at except in a few days I’d read some articles, cooked a few simple recipes (my cooking is sometimes frustratingly repe…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u @whohar

Sounds exciting, PS: Whilst I hadn’t followed this particular link back to the tender process I very much enjoyed your italicised comments. Absolute risk is expected but not too much!
And not too much Dr Who lore either ….And it can be a little expensive but it mustn’t ever look cheap….

Your mention of Salvor Hardin had me…[Read more]

@winston

Apparently it will be the last TN novel. 🙁

I’d love to see Fforde do an episode of Who.

@ps1l0v3y0u

Excellent work sir/madam.

It’s a pretty loose tender really, so it can be interpreted in many ways, which I guess is the Beeb saying “we don’t really know what we want apart from a new Doc and (at least) one Companion”

I just hope it is a fresh team that wins it with some great ideas. Who are looking for willing writers (helloooo,…[Read more]

@whohar   Hello fellow fan! I heard there was a new Thursday Next  novel coming! I have read them all and some more than once over the years but this is the first time I have listened to one. Fforde’s strange and wonderful book world was a surprise that fired my imagination and inspired me to revisit some classics and try some new ones. I wa…[Read more]