July 10th, 2010 / 7:57 pm
 Snippets
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Just listened to Samuel “Chip” Delaney (of Hogg and Dhalgren) read a long, amiable, detail-rich story about a fellow who likes eat his own excrement and semen.  Feel sort of fatalistic, for some reason.

6 Comments

  1. July 10th, 2010 / 8:45 pm Dreezer—

      A century ago on a Compuserve BBS (remember those?), Neil Gaiman referred to The Mad Man — Delany’s AIDS-era epic — as (and I’m paraphrasing from memory) a story about aliens, I think because of the fixation on certain, erm, substances. And Hogg is relentless in its chronicle of awfulness.

  2. July 10th, 2010 / 11:07 pm Janey Smith—

      Samuel R. Delany. Yes.

  3. July 10th, 2010 / 11:51 pm ael—

      You’re having too much fun at Readercon Nick Antosca.

  4. July 11th, 2010 / 12:45 am Dreezer—

      A century ago on a Compuserve BBS (remember those?), Neil Gaiman referred to The Mad Man — Delany’s AIDS-era epic — as (and I’m paraphrasing from memory) a story about aliens, I think because of the fixation on certain, erm, substances. And Hogg is relentless in its chronicle of awfulness.

  5. July 11th, 2010 / 3:07 am Janey Smith—

      Samuel R. Delany. Yes.

  6. July 11th, 2010 / 3:51 am ael—

      You’re having too much fun at Readercon Nick Antosca.