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d to know stuff and i love asking awkward questions view my complete profile tuesday may 05 2026 posted by cyberkitten at 9 32 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels quotes monday may 04 2026 posted by cyberkitten at 11 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art posted by cyberkitten at 8 56 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels random pix just finished reading the shrinking man by richard matheson fp 1956 200pp scott carey wasn t afraid he wasn t even worried by the strange cloud he had been briefly enveloped in for a few moments it left his exposed skin tingling like a bad sunburn but just as quickly both the cloud and the sensation was gone within a few minutes he had forgotten about the whole thing it was only weeks later that his doctor noted a drop in scott s weight a few weeks more and scott was back worried about something else not only was his weight dropping but so was his height sent for tests his suspicions were confirmed scott was losing height at a steady rate 1 7th of an inch per day every day they tried every test every remedy and still nothing the rate never varied but never stopped scott was shrinking and it seemed that nothing and no one could stop it the question that scott grappled with was simple what would become of him in a world of giants where a misstep could kill him where the family cat can become a deadly predator or where a common spider can become a mortal enemy i remember being awestruck as a youth watching the 1957 movie adaptation called the incredible shrinking man not only was the idea presented in the movie on the bizarre kind but the life or death fight with a giant spider in the basement of his own home mesmerised me unfortunately this was one of those instances where the adaptation was superior to the original text one of the major differences was the format the flow of the narrative itself although i haven t watched the film for a while i very much remember it as a straight narrative scott is contaminated by the cloud scott starts shrinking scott deals with the effects as he gets smaller and smaller all very linear the book however is largely told in flashbacks from his time trapped in the basement and sometimes in flashbacks within flashbacks which often interrupted the narrative flow scott himself is a much more likable and sympathetic character in the movie book scott is a jerk who is angry at everything and everyone for his circumstances he elicited very little sympathy from me the movie left out a couple of things too one was the worry expressed of just how much the tests were costing and how they were going to pay for them i guess this was just an unnecessary detail that could be left out or edited out the other thing which both surprised and almost shocked me especially considering its publication date was the focus on scott s sexual frustration as his stature continued to reduce part of that was the perceived reduction in manhood and the other was the fact that scott couldn t bring himself to approach his wife despite her saying that they would find a way and this wasn t just a passing comment but something that the author returned to throughout the book at times it honestly felt more than a little creepy both the climax of the movie and the book was the final boss fight with the resident spider in the basement both the movie and the book handled it well although in different ways warning if you are in any way bothered by spiders do not read this book it will give you nightmares that for me was definitely the best part of the book and brought it up to reasonable and almost made me forgive the rest of it it was an interesting read on several levels but i can t really recommend it maybe you should give it a chance if you want to read all of the gollancz sf masterworks series but i think you d be safe missing this one out more and hopefully better sf to come posted by cyberkitten at 3 57 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book2screen books science fiction sunday may 03 2026 posted by cyberkitten at 8 38 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels random text posted by cyberkitten at 9 21 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cartoon ukraine saturday may 02 2026 posted by cyberkitten at 8 34 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels random text happy birthday edward elmer smith may 2 1890 august 31 1965 was an american food engineer specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes and science fiction author best known for the lensman and skylark series he is sometimes called the father of space opera smith s novels are generally considered to be classic space operas and he is sometimes called the first of the three novas of 20th century science fiction with stanley g weinbaum and robert a heinlein as the second and third novas heinlein credited him for being his main influence i have learned from many writers from verne and wells and campbell and sinclair lewis et al but i have learned more from you than from any of the others and perhaps more than for all the others put together smith expressed a preference for inventing fictional technologies that were not strictly impossible so far as the science of the day was aware but highly unlikely the more highly improbable a concept is short of being contrary to mathematics whose fundamental operations involve no neglect of infinitesimals the better i like it was his phrase lensman was one of five finalists when the 1966 world science fiction convention judged isaac asimov s foundation the best all time series the science fiction and fantasy hall of fame inducted smith in 2004 this guy was the person who got me into reading back in my early teens a copy of his novel triplanetary was literally dropped into my lap by a friend of my brothers who thought i looked bored it blew my mind and i have never looked back i became obsessed with sci fi from that point but soon ish started widening my reading to where it is today but he started the fire that has never gone out i ll see if i can re read triplanetary this year it ll be interesting if i don t quickly dnf it to see what i think of it 50 years later posted by cyberkitten at 2 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels birthday science fiction friday may 01 2026 posted by cyberkitten at 10 28 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art i used to be able to do this with my cat posted by cyberkitten at 9 21 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cats posted by cyberkitten at 11 17 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poster welcome to may we made it after a month of book related posts we re back to normal or what passes for normal here salt but i have picked out a summer theme running from june through august that i m looking forward to it ll involve a mix of nostalgia with a sprinkling of competition but we have to get through this month first posted by cyberkitten at 9 35 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels random text thursday april 30 2026 posted by cyberkitten at 8 47 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels random text just finished reading the great hunger by patrick kavanagh 50pp so poetry again i think that both penguin classics boxsets are trolling me presently weirdly and very unexpectedly i didn t mind these poems i can honestly say hand on heart that i didn t skim a single one i m not sure exactly why this was so generally the poetry is about the natural world in his irish home with multiple references to mountains trees and such by far the longest poem hence the title of the booklet was the great hunger itself going in i d assumed that it was going to be about the irish potato famine but it was nothing of the sort it was instead about the struggles of a farmer tied to the land and to his overbearing mother leaving him alone in the world as both he and the land ages it was to coin a phrase all very poetic whilst i m not exactly going out and buying all of this poet s works i certainly wasn t sorry that i read them and don t consider my time wasted doing so i don t think that i ve finally been turned on to poetry but that i ve stumbled across a poet that doesn t leave me cold bored and confused with his use of language we ll see how the next poet in either of these boxsets fares reasonable posted by cyberkitten at 3 52 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books classics poetry 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