Quote: chipolata @ March 16 2010, 11:06 AM GMTHave you read Harlan Ellison's For I Have No Mouth Yet I Must Scream?
No, never read him. Should I?
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Quote: SlagA @ March 16 2010, 11:09 AM GMTNo, never read him. Should I?
Definitely. He's a big short story writer, and wrote a lot of the classic early Trek episodes. I Have No Mouth Yet I must Scream is about a group of survivors after a nuclear war screwed with by a supercomputer. It's excellent. You'd enjoy it.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 16 2010, 11:05 AM GMT
Disgusting.
Just checked the Wiki for it. There are one or two similarities in the way the bunker seems to defy laws of nature and logic but my mainframe is a rather more benign force so am a little relieved. But it sounds good and I'll try and track it down.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 16 2010, 11:05 AM GMTMy sister was out walking on Sunday and came across this huge sculpture in the middle of nowhere and said it was pretty creepy. I found a couple of pictures of it online. It seems it's called the Nuba Embrace.
Quote: SlagA @ March 16 2010, 11:03 AM GMTCheers all, the link is actually in my sig below. But I was kinda too embarrassed to physically tie it in with me in a more direct way.
Once the book is out properly, I'll be less ashamed... I hope.It's called Big Bang and it's about a dysfunctional group of celebrities, cut off from their PR departments and gag writers, trying to survive in a nuclear bunker. Unable to contact the outside world, they're never sure if if the bomb dropped or whether the computer mainframe is playing mind games with them. When they finally begin to accept their lot and adjust to bunker life, their version of reality is fundamentally challenged.
There's an underlying metaphor and mild exploration of Schrodinger's Cat but you don't need to know about Schrodinger (or his cat) to get the story. It's also been converted into a sitcom and screenplay.
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Well done Slag-o!
Quote: zooo @ March 16 2010, 11:23 AM GMTWowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Well done Slag-o!
Very well done. It actually sounds like something I'd enjoy too.
Quote: SlagA @ March 16 2010, 11:17 AM GMTJust checked the Wiki for it. There are one or two similarities in the way the bunker seems to defy laws of nature and logic but my mainframe is a rather more benign force so am a little relieved. But it sounds good and I'll try and track it down.
Sounds great will get a copy when it's possible to.
Here's another bunker story. Which someone wrote in a galaxy far far away.
http://cholo.ovine.net/terminal/cholo-novella.php
Impossible to read it here.. but I have the original somewhere. 
Wow! Well done, Slagg-A!
Quote: Marc P @ March 16 2010, 11:43 AM GMTSounds great will get a copy when it's possible to. Here's another bunker story. Which someone wrote in a galaxy far far away. http://cholo.ovine.net/terminal/cholo-novella.php Impossible to read it here.. but I have the original somewhere.
Does the P in Marc P stand for Product placement?
Quote: chipolata @ March 16 2010, 12:45 PM GMTDoes the P in Marc P stand for Product placement?
Hey you've given me a great idea Chip! The next episode of Doctors of mine is going to be set in a bookstore.
Can I slip you a fiver then Marc?
I feel like crap today. Coughy and achey thighs.
Then to cap it all went to supermarket and left the refund voucher in the car and took in the parking ticket. Bang £50 fine!
Quote: Marc P @ March 16 2010, 12:50 PM GMTHey you've given me a great idea Chip! The next episode of Doctors of mine is going to be set in a bookstore.
Quote: Marc P @ March 16 2010, 12:50 PM GMTHey you've given me a great idea Chip! The next episode of Doctors of mine is going to be set in a bookstore.
(Thankfully there's no such thing in Birmingham!)
Quote: bigfella @ March 16 2010, 12:56 PM GMTCan I slip you a fiver then Marc?
I feel like crap today. Coughy and achey thighs.
Then to cap it all went to supermarket and left the refund voucher in the car and took in the parking ticket. Bang £50 fine!
You should be able to get that overturned BF. Actually I tried to get a bookshop in the last one but they were wise to me lol. Best of luck for the launch by the way! Don't take the advance down the bookies!
Quote: Marc P @ March 16 2010, 12:50 PM GMTHey you've given me a great idea Chip! The next episode of Doctors of mine is going to be set in a bookstore.
Young man, just split from girlfriend, gets a papercut flicking through a crime thriller in a book shop. Ex - girlfriend just happens to be passing with a new man and won't help hiim with the now profusely bleeding wound. Argument ensues where he calls her an unfeeling bitch, wasting no time in getting a new bloke. Turns out the other man is actually her cousin. And gay. Finally her reason for reticence is revealed. She has discovered she is HIV positive and left because she couldn't face the fact she had given him HIV. But the twist is he knew all along, having been diagnosed and lving in denial for years. Helpful doctor from the practice, with too much time on his hands, just happens to be looking for Jamie Oliver's latest and recognises his patients. He sees to the papercut and informs the warring couple that there are new HIV drugs just arrived in the practice which can almost cure them. The couple get back together, but the doctor is a little sad and wistful. The Jamie Oliver book has sold out and he doesn't know what to cook his date that evening. The gay cousin turns out to be a top chef and promises to come and cook dinner that evening.