Swibbles

Subscribing to some of these automated consumer-tracker things from amazon and have received a slew of reccomendations based on my “reading history”… hey! get the hell outta my history! which say I would apparently like this what-seems-to-me-evil-marketing-ploy-term, the New Weird. Ok, please. lets just stick with Fantasy or Sci Fi. Seems like a lot of hogwash. There is only One True God, of course, and that is Philip K. Dick. Ive read The Scar by China Mieville but didnt like it, not a big fan of fantasy stuff. Hes got a new one out Un Lun Dun but dont know if i’ll try it, might wait for the library circuit. Also read A.K. Otterness and thought it was pretty good, though I dont know why it was listed under new weird. Its definately sci-fi. Never heard of the author before but guess an old magazine sci fi writer. The writing was kinda like reading those Dick stories where he just spews stuff out, but still holds it together. Not bad. Also, Ray Bradbury has a new one out, about dragons. I wish theyd leave off this fantasy. clue: Fantasy->escapism. Science Fiction->save-the-world-truth. Yep. Time for a swibble hit.