Worlds of Paul Jessup

Let the Right One In

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:24:19 +0000

I NEED to see this movie.

I knew electing Obama would bring in change

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:10:08 +0000

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/

Tobias Buckell Hospitalized

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:22:53 +0000

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

Excerpt from a recent short story

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:10:54 +0000

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 knows he would’ve noticed kids. Kids are loud. Kids destroy. They would’ve gotten into his house. Gotten to his ants and killed them. Killed them all. He would’ve had to make a mass grave. One the size of his whole backyard.

Thankfully, they did not have kids.

The girls name was Emily. She had short black hair. Benjamin thought she was pretty. Every once and awhile, she would be bored. Come over and try and talk to him. To make conversation. Benjamin wasn’t good at conversation.

All he wanted to do was talk about his ants. She didn’t seem to mind. And she was pretty. Benjamin liked her.

Today I feel like this.

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:40:43 +0000

This is sick.

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:43:12 +0000

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 will suffer.

There is a lot wrong with the publishing industry, and big dollar advances are a huge part of it.

Akira Kurosawa and film

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:31:59 +0000

“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 are rarely built in that fashion anymore. A difficult premise yes, but doable.

Ekaterina Sedia blurbs Open Your Eyes

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:28:37 +0000

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!

Berrian C. Henderson interviewed at Fantasy Magazine

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:32:57 +0000

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

Jay Lake blurbs Open Your Eyes

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:55:06 +0000

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. Dick, all bound together in a distinctly modern vision of a post-technological future bereft of a human core. Jessup’s bone spaceships and resurrecting crews tumble into the core of a mystery which is consuming the very hearts of suns. Go along for the ride, and open your eyes.
– Jay Lake, author of Escapement and Green