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

Hi Jen

I was beginning to wonder where you'd got to...

Then I realised - you've been chatting all the time to BC & Rob W again

Got the Sara Maitland collection "On Becoming A Fairy Godmother" last Tuesday, and read half of it by Tuesday night. Lots of stories involving legendary heroines, post-menopause.

I really enjoyed the pirate queen story "Sailing the High Seas", as it was told from the perspective of the 50-year-old daughter who is left behind in the home counties.

Guinevere & Lancelot story "Foreplay" is definitely XXX rated!!!

I'll have to hunt the library computer catalogue for the other Sara Maitland novels listed at the front of the book.

Sorry - no wraps available at the moment - the next ones will be available on the last Friday of the month... your last chance until 2005.

Hello

Ay, talking to Rob, he's such a nice man. Oh, yes, and chatting with Bc.... He's all right I suppose He's now engaged to Brenda. Yes, Rich, it came as a shock to me as well

I have made a note to buy 'On Becoming A Fairy Godmother'
I shall take it on holiday with me.

Can't wait until the last Friday in November. Those wraps are more of a treat aren't they when restricted to once a month.

Bye, Rich,



Jen

Hi Jen

Got ahold of a copy of "Dangerous Visions", the landmark 550 page science fiction anthology from 1967 which brought the whole 1960s ethos of free love to the genre in a big way.

Or something...

Currently reading the story "Riders of the Purple Wage" by Philip Jose Farmer, which (unbelievably) won the best novella award at the 1968 American Science Fiction Convention.

In don't think such a story would win nowadays...

Especially not with the scene in which the artist hero gets revenge on his girlfriend by spreading superglue all over a can of spermicide foam...

...while she's using it!

Rich !

That's a wild and story.

I have just been on PJF's website and he surely writes some freaky stuff.

I don't know whether to believe you about the artist hero !! And I sure ain't going to my library to find out

Bye, Rich, be seeing you

Jen
x

Better to stick with last week's 2004 World Fantasy Award winner for best novel:

"Tooth & Claw" by Jo Walton...

a.k.a. Pride & Prejudice for dragons!

Haven't read it myself, cos I don't think it's been published in the UK yet.

Rich

Have just been informed of a family bereavement...

Jen

Hi jen

So sorry to hear of your bad news - hope you're coping & I will send you a message again soon.



Rich