h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ah Ansible, simply great. I'm less into SF than I was, but I still like to keep up to date on this one publication. Thog is by far my favourite section, but As Others See Us can be good, especially when it's a "This isn't sci-fi because..." thing.

There's been a couple of bits where he notes predictions from old sci-fi. One book talked about how one day we would be able to make phone calls from anywhere - road, train, etc. Then it went on to describe the apparatus, which would be small, hand-held and plug into any one of numerous sockets by the side of the road ("or side of the railway line, presumably," noted Langford).

One of the reasons I like Ansible so much are the 'Mike Moorcock has an ingrown toenail' kind of bits. No matter how much of any writer you've read, or whether you've ever heard of them, there's this feeling of an SF community that comes through in Ansible.

Probably because the news is of a more gossipy and less formal nature. Or something.

Do love Thog though. "His eyes were affixed to the statue on the other side of the square."


Geggs

That's a very good point. It's great that the info will often come from the writers themselves.

Oh, a bumper crop of "As others see us" this month. And I'm disappointed that Thog isn't going to club whoever called the Alien boxed set a "quadrilogy" (yukky).

Yeah, don't you find yourself thinking "Whatever happened to the word Quartet?"

Some people as just silly. Marketing people escpecially.


Geggs