<div dir="auto">The second in the series was mentioned in Carter and Lovecraft as a description of Providence which made me curious so I put this one on my list. I can suggest a replacement if the group prefers.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 12:30 PM Wesley Brodsky <<a href="mailto:wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu">wesbrodsky@alum.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Have others read “The Ticket that Exploded”? What do they think about it as a source for discussion? A totally random sample of the text;<br>
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“Don’t know how i’ll make it, baby — Electric fingers removed ‘Love’ — Do you love me? — Love is red sheets of pain hung oh oh baby oh jelly — The guide slipped off his jelly — I’ve got you under my skin pulsing red light — Clouds of Me always be true to you — Hula hoops of color formed always be true to you darling in my Bradly — Weak and torn i’ll hurry to my blue heaven as i sank in suffocation panic of rusty St. Louis woman — With just a photograph, Mary, you know i love you through sperm — Contraction turnstile hoped you’d love me too —”<br>
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Yes, it is all like that.<br>
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-Wes<br>
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Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] My choices for November or December book<br>
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I loved Burroughs, William S. “The Ticket that Exploded:” SciFi or dream imagination? The reader will have to decide. Certainly, passages reference things from SciFi; I forgot what. “Language is a virus from outer space.”<br>
-Wes<br>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 8:04 PM<br>
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Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] My choices for November or December book<br>
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Here are my 3 picks for voting on:<br>
Morris, Brandon Q The Disturbance Hard Science Fiction<br>
Burroughs, William S. The Ticket that Exploded: The Restored Text<br>
Brunner, John The Jagged Orbit<br>
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 6:21 PM David G. Grubbs <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
In the NESFA Reading Group, we have Carter & Lovecraft coming up for September and Growing Up Weightless coming up for October. I was asked to select three books you all can vote on to pick for either November or December.<br>
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Here are three: (They all have around 3.8 averages on Goodreads.)<br>
Gibson,William 2003 Pattern Recognition (356 pages)<br>
Lethem,Jonathan 1994 Gun, with Occasional Music (262 pages)<br>
Moorcock,Michael 1972 An Alien Heat (147 pages)<br>
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I have not read the Gibson. It is the first in a series, but I don't get the feeling that it is the first in a "trilogy". It should stand alone. It looks like it is typical Gibson with Tech, Web activity and Spies.<br>
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The other two are on my "reread" list of books I rated highly in the past. I read the Lethem almost 30 years ago (it is a mixture of Fantasy and Noir mystery) and the Moorcock almost 50 years ago (it is an odd mix of Victorian fantasy, multi-universes, and humor). I would like to read them again.<br>
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