Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
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JG Ballard was the first writer I read that taught me that science-fiction didn’t have to have ray-guns and space ships to be science-fiction. His speculative worlds of melancholy, rust and human frailties are far more plausible than any space opera you care to [...]
And worst of all. Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed ‘a’ so that the stress that should have fallen on “nosh” is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable. When you’re winding up a piece of prose, metre is crucial. Can’t you hear? Can’t you hear that it is [...]
Arthur C. Clarke est mort.
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