Worlds of Paul Jessup

My daily ramblings. Philosophy, thoughts about writing, thoughts about genre and other interesting and not so interesting tidbits.

I NEED to see this movie.

But this is seriously crazy cool. His embrace of technology and the internet is fascinating. He really is a President for our generation and possibly is paving the future with each moment.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/14/obama-to-post-fireside-chats-on-youtube/

Terrible news!  Author of Caribean Space Operas Crystal Rain, Sly Mongoose and Ragamuffin is in the hospital. Looks like its a heart attack, at the very young age of 29.  He’s been twittering about what’s been happening to him here:
http://twitter.com/tobiasbuckell

This one called Last Stand of the Ant Maker:
There was a girl. Isn’t there always? She was eighteen when he first met her. She moved in. Next door. With her husband, Gary. Gary drove a truck. Ate baked beans from a can. She was pregnant. Always pregnant. Although they never seemed to have any kids.
Benjamin [...]

I can’t believe, in a period where everyone is discussing on how book publishers and bookstores are taking a hit, that publishing houses can cough up 2 million dollar advances for celeberity books. It’s just disguisting. There is no way either book can earn out its advance, and so really in the end the midlist [...]

“A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people, while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. Even if a small circle of people enjoy a film, it will not do. A film should satisfy a wide range of people, all the people.”
(from this interview)
I’m starting to think that novels should be the same way, but [...]

AWESOME. I love her books, am a mad fan. She is probably one of my current favorite authors in genre fiction.
Here’s the blurb:
“With unique imagination at work, Open Your Eyes bombards the reader with stunning imagery, from living spaceships to mechanical butterflies.”
-Ekaterina Sedia, Author of The Secret History of Moscow and Alchemy of Stone
Yay!

He’s a good freind of mine, and a great writer. Check it out. You won’t be sorry

And I must say, I’m agaga. I love his work, and give him mad respect. Here’s the blurb (that will be appearing on the book) below:
Open Your Eyes is surrealistic space opera in the tradition of New Wave experimentalism, echoing the fantastic imagery of Samuel R. Delany and the angst-ridden identity paranoia of Philip K. [...]