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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 12:25:30 JST Evan Prodromou

   • Maj 🇨🇦
   • enantiomer

   @enantiomer ha! @micheleann has that book. I haven't read it, but we were just explaining to our kids how much "Songs from the Stars" changed the way we think.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 12:41:03 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • enantiomer

     @micheleann @enantiomer wow

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     Maj 🇨🇦 (micheleann@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 12:41:04 JST Maj 🇨🇦

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     @evan @enantiomer "Spinrad had difficulty finding a publisher willing to print Bug Jack Barron as a book. Publisher Michael Moorcock printed the novel in installments in the magazine New Worlds. The newsstand company WHSmith refused to distribute one of the issues because of the installment of Spinrad's novel. The Arts Council of Great Britain, which subsidized New Worlds, put public pressure on WHSmith and forced the company to distribute the issue. This led to denunciations of Spinrad, The Arts Council, and New Worlds in the British Parliament.[" (From Wikipedia)

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     Maj 🇨🇦 (micheleann@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 12:41:06 JST Maj 🇨🇦

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     @evan @enantiomer I think I have almost all of Spinrad's books and most of the novellas.
     This one hasn't aged well in some ways, but probably in my top 5 of his. It's a very uncomfortable read but a powerful story.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 21:21:43 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • enantiomer

     @micheleann @enantiomer it's not too late for that.

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     Maj 🇨🇦 (micheleann@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 21:21:44 JST Maj 🇨🇦

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     @evan @enantiomer " In 1983, author Harlan Ellison was hired to write a screenplay for a film to be directed by Costa-Gavras for Universal Pictures. After the project went nowhere, Ellison published this screenplay, titled "None of the Above," including casting suggestions that had Martin Sheen as Jack Barron and Sigourney Weaver as Sara"

     Fucking Ellison! Because of course!

     I would love to get a copy of the screen play...

     (Probably should have added #dontgetmestarted early on. I should have written a thesis on Spinrad.)