Ancestors

Toot

Written by Seb on 2024-08-06 at 19:29

I remember reading this when it came out. No longer my favourite Banks novel, but still the one that got him noticed and led to all the great novels that followed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001w71d

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Descendants

Written by Brian Marick on 2024-08-06 at 22:05

@sebrose Back then I bought books mail order from Mark Ziesing. He would occasionally say, “Buy this”, and I dutifully did. One time it was /The Wasp Factory/. Another was /Shadow of the Torturer/.

Even if he hadn’t given me good books to read, I see that those first editions are worth a pretty penny now.

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Written by Seb on 2024-08-06 at 22:26

@marick I've never had either as a first edition. In fact I'm not sure I own either of them at the moment. But, due to a recent episode on the "Genre Wolfe Literary Podcast", I'm revisiting early Brautigan, courtesy of Ebay.

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Written by Jez Higgins on 2024-08-07 at 05:52

@sebrose You don't have a copy of Shadow of the Torturer? The only way I can believe this is that you read it until it fell apart?

@marick

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Written by Seb on 2024-08-07 at 10:44

@jezhiggins @marick many copies have passed through my hands, but I have a habit of lending books out... without having a habit of getting them back :)

I do have electronic versions on my kindle though.

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Written by Brian Marick on 2024-08-08 at 23:04

@sebrose @jezhiggins You can have my first edition when I die. I’ll try to remember to notify you just before. Or if I forget, remind me while I document my lingering death with Mastodon posts.

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