Okay, time for another open thread. Talk about whatever you like, self promote whatever, but play nicely.
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About Me
- Neal Asher
- Latchingdon, Essex, United Kingdom
- I’ve been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder. Now I write science fiction books, and am slowly getting over the feeling that someone is going to find me out, and can call myself a writer without wincing and ducking my head. As professions go, I prefer this one: I don’t have to clock-in, change my clothes after work, nor scrub sensitive parts of my body with detergent. I think I’ll hang around. Contact: ndotasheratvirgindotnet
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Well, given this is open... My lunch at the Chesil Rectory in Winchester today was bloody nice... and now this glass of post lunch bubbles is going down a treat. I might yet have another.
Some self-promotion then, and a freebie for those who like zombie stories:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/229554
I'd appreciate a review though, doesn't have to be positive but if it's a negative one it would be helpful to know why.
Thanks!
My lunch was tuna, although, here in Barbados, they call it dolphin to scare the tourists. It was also bloody nice. :)
apartheid terrorists perfect fun for the armchair observer:
http://readwrite.com/2012/11/15/unbelievable-the-idf-has-gamified-its-war-blog
run kids run:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/violas94/definitive-list-of-suspicious-vans
interdimensional earth ruin borderland for pigworld read:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10002/10002-h/10002-h.htm
2% success rate of killing some guy, mostly kids though, on gathered whatsis:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2012/nov/12/dronestagram-website-us-dr\
one-war
probable crimes, all, anyone, everyone with judge prosecutor shillbulb:
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/11/fbi-can-trawl-through-your-email-archives\
-anytime-it-wants
camofluking: it's what you get for stealing you 8 armed buildingpus:
http://youtu.be/mGMT99i00M4
swallow your drone scone repiglicrat!:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-police-drones-which-are-watching-you/5311337
crawling cleft dot carnality chomps metamorfistling:
http://youtu.be/uVqpgq6pJl0
parasite got your vocab?:
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04etta/background/isopods/media/paras\
itic_isopod.html
cosmostringer electrifudged, play the squalid novacatta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2pkDgdMxl0
world police; a new generation of change hopes chain gangers:
http://www.businessinsider.com/drone-propaganda-domestic-ndaa-obama-2012-11?0=de\
fense
kaptain kill "great to be king of the underworld", woot:
https://antiwar.com/blog/2012/11/07/obama-bombs-yemen-hours-after-winning-reelec\
tion/
world eaters anonymous:
http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/paris-preview-starfish-or-cthulhu-or.html\
?spref=tw
satan in stripes. in candy land. with pants off:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bettydiver/8160634831/
http://bogleech.com/bio-paracrust.html
feathered daisycutter inhales dustbumper:
http://youtu.be/8uZJVSFwixY
have you seen Looper yet?
That's the spirit, Paul.
I'll have a look, Bob. And for all of you who want to put stories etc through the mill don't forget the workshop here: http://freespace.virgin.net/n.asher/page79.html
Jez, who would know the difference?
Bloody hell Vaude.
No, not yet, Beak.
Well, the kalinga was conservation conscious, Vaude - it only ate part of the starfish. Bloody thing doesn't look real.
eating part of a starfish is harvesting, limb regrowth means-ocean farmers out there.
love how messed up sea life is & you have SF exploring humanoid & funny nose b.s.
did you see the carnivorous sponge? looks like a 50s tv antenna.
Hey Bob.
I've downloaded the book and am enjoying it! Finished the introduction and first story this morning on the tube. Only criticism is you've made a small error in your shotgun categorization. You refer to double barrelled shotgun OR an over-and-under. Actually an over-and-under is also a type of double barrelled gun. I think you meant side-by-side or over-and-under. Both are double barrelled guns with the barrels in a horizontal or vertical configuration. Side-by-side guns are slightly harder to aim but have the advantage of being able to fire both barrels at once - better for zombies I'm sure.
Don't you dare laughing at me:
http://www.lifebeyonddeath.net/
In case you're bored and have not seen it yet:
"The pillars of the earth"
England 12th century. Not brilliant but quite entertaining for a weekday, 8 50 minutes episodes starring Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne,Donald Sutherland. Produced amongst others by Tony and Ridley Scott. Based on the book by Ken Follett. Have fun!
Chris, Caroline got the book a couple of years ago and we both read it. Then we both watched the DVD. Very much enjoyed Breaking Bad by the way.
This year same people made 'World without end' have not seen that one yet...
Thanks Neal, hope you get around to reading it :)
Hey, robann,
Cool! Glad you've downloaded it. Yeah of course both types are double-barrelled it's just my way of thinking (old-fashioned) when side-by-side shotguns were just known as double-barrelled and then the newer over and unders came out. I had a mate who own a hybrid, an over and under with a rifle barrel on top and a shotgun beneath, don't think you see many of those.
BTW I'd appreciate a review if or when you finish it.
Cheers,
Bob
PS, I'm having lamb-chops for dinner...
Bob - over and under guns have been out since the 1940s, how old *are* you :-) Are you really undead...
Just reached the zombies on mars bit (now that's a plot shift akin to the movie from dust til dawn). I'll probably finish the book tomorrow on my commuting journeys. I'm really enjoying it with only one minor plot flaw. I'll write something when I'm complete!
Hehe robann,
No, not undead yet, but feel like it from time to time :)
Yeah, I think you're right, it could be the Browning Superposed from either 30s or 40s that was the first O/U.
I was born in 49 :)
I used to hunt with an old Russian Baikal that was bloody noisy and had a hell of a kick. Then managed to find a beautiful old Greener with a Martini Action which was a dream.
Had to sell both of them when I went to Italy to live for a few years.
Yep, the Mars plot shift isn't the only Dusk Till Dawn moment :)
Glad you're enjoying it, let me know the plot flaw and I'll fix it.
Thanks!
Bob
Review: A great collection of short stories with links between them all. Several twists, turns and a lot of humour. All for the fantastic price of £0.00.
Plot/writing flaw! In "The Vegetarian Zombie" the story is in the first person and you are told that you are reading the journal of the zombie. However, later in the story, there is a description of the journal being given away but the story continues - who can be writing the journal you are reading!
Have you got any more work I can read?
P.S. I'm having pasta and garlic bread for my tea.
It's the bbc I know, still an interesting bit of history.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/11/the_ghost_of_the_colonels.html
Hey robann,
Glad you managed to finish it and even gladder that you enjoyed it.
Ack! However! I'll have to re-read The Vegetarian Zombie then and sort out the POV mix-up, well spotted.
Yeah I have plenty of stuff around the place. If you review They Feed On Flesh on Smashwords or/and Amazon I'll send you a voucher to get my SF collection for free, this one:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/125534
Or if you have plenty of money it costs 99 cents :P
I've got printed books too over at Amazon.
(Sorry for piggy-backing your site so much Neal!)
I just had Chilli Con Carne for tea and drank two glasses of gross British-made red wine that my wife bought and will not be buying again...
Thanks for the excellent review on Smashwords robann, much appreciated :)
Seeing "crab salad" in Shadow of the Scorpion has reminded me of F.M. Busby's Demu Trilogy. Had you read this novel prior to writing about the Prador?
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