Stories of Joenes

Journey Beyond Tomorrow
by Robert Sheckley

Local Used Bookstore

If you can't find it at 4421 South Mingo, you probably just haven't looked hard enough.

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card: a man with a clear vision. Undeterring, Unyielding, vigilant, he knows what he wants to see: an Ender's Game movie. But before the award-winning novelist's hallmark work can get to the big screen, he's making damn sure the look, feel, design, atmosphere—Ender's Game's entire visual spectrum—is perfect. How does he plan to do that? By bringing the beloved property to Marvel Comics.

Currently Reading

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

highly recommended

I'm really enjoying Red Dwarf because it's 2 of my favorite things: sci-fi and funny. Speaking of which, here's a funny, sci-fi book I read a long time ago that I highly recommend. Illegal Aliens by Phil Foglio and Nick Pollotta. Here's a plot summary from Fantastic Fiction:

Prof. Rajavur and his 'First Contact Team' had been patiently waiting years for aliens to land on Earth. Leader Idow and the crew of the starship, All That Glitters, were just looking for an unknown planet where they could land and have a little fun teasing the primitive natives. So it was pure bad luck that the first humans the alien tricksters encounter is a ruthless New York City street gang, the Bloody Deckers. With more starships landing and the world in chaos, Rajavur and his First Contact Team have to move fast in a desperate plan to rescue the innocent aliens from the evil street gang! Then again, maybe they should join forces with the street gang to protect the Earth from the furious aliens? Best-Selling author Nick Pollotta and Hugo award winning illustrator Phil Foglio have packed this one-of-a-kind science fiction comedy full of thrilling combat, nuclear agents, planetary blockades, Omega Gas, the galactic police, Russian-doll-style Dyson spheres, a giant flying refrigerator, big juju, a high-stakes game of poker, space battles, warobots, the trail of the millennium, bar fights, naughty lingerie, lost civilizations, the United Nations Space Marines, lost civilizations, group sex, and delicious fried chicken.

Red Dwarf

It's cold and Lister is resorting to book burning and dog food eating to the huge disapproval of Rimmer.

skiffy

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor

Open Book 2

Rakes

Ode to H.P. Lovecraft

Happy Halloween!

British Author

A rare interview with Jeff Noon in Deluxe lounge bar circa 2000.

feathers

Vurt by Jeff Noon

Peep Show

If I hadn't finished reading Ticket That Exploded, I would have never known where the band Miranda Sex Garden got their name. This is the only song I ever heard by them and it's a good one. I still have the album it came on: Hideaway movie soundtrack.

unfinished

The Ticket That Exploded
by William S. Burroughs
I started reading this many years ago and stopped reading it less than 50 pages from the end. I guess I didn't like it as much as Western Lands and Naked Lunch. Also I was grossed out by the repeated use of the words "rectal mucus" as well as pervasive descriptions of "hard cocks flipping out and up". This book will receive an asterisk on the annual list, indicating it's partially read status.

Open Book

Cake

secret stash

Best five picture results from my Google search for "hollow book".

The Wind From Nowhere

by J. G. Ballard

BLOODHAG

May 10th 2008 @ Annie's Social Club in San Francisco, CA.

Recorded by HASHTHRASH

set:

01. Lewis Carroll 02. Philip Pullman 03. Daniel Pinkwater 04. Roald Dahl 05. Douglas Adams 06. Orson Scott Card 07. Anne McCaffrey 08. William S Burroughs 09. Jack Womack 10. Bruce Sterling 11. Anthony Burgess 12. H.P. Lovecraft

Halloween Reading

Shadows With Eyes
by Fritz Leiber

cool parking garage

Somewhere in Kansas City.

Melvinge of the Megaverse

Night of the Living Shark

by David Bischoff
from the mind of Daniel M. Pinkwater