Brian Doherty. (Facebook photo. Source).
1. Two interesting new pieces have been posted about Brian Doherty since I ran the obituary Sunday. Nick Gillespie has written a remembrance: "On the way out of the talk, as valets pulled up our old, beat-up cars (mine a Toyota Tercel with 200,000 miles on it and a padlock on the trunk, his a decrepit Ford LTD station wagon he'd bought from Jacob Sullum), Brian mentioned to me that what he really liked about capitalism wasn't the way it punished anyone but just how many free riders it enabled."
Also, a new piece by Bryan Caplan, longer and better than what I linked to Sunday.
2. I got a comment some days ago that the links to Robert Anton Wilson's "Serpent Power" piece on this site were all dead links. I think I've fixed it and the link under "Feature Articles and Interviews" on the right side of this page now works.
3. I also recently blogged about RAW meeting Ted Sturgeon, the famous science fiction writer. Sturgeon's More Than Human currently is a $2 Kindle ebook. Still $9 as a Nook ebook at Barnes and Nobel, unfortunately.
4. When Dan Simmons died, I ran a notice and complained that the New York Times did not run an obit. An obituary has now in fact finally run. I still think the paper should have run one for Greg Bear.
3 comments:
I love “More Than Human” and other Sturgeon novels, but I love his short fiction even more, especially “Slow Sculpture” and “A Saucer Full of Loneliness”.
As a late St Patrick's Day offering, here's an adaptation of a Joyce short story from Dubliners made available online by the director:
https://vimeo.com/218068506
Wow, I did not know Doherty died. I just read the obit. He was part of the Cacophony Society?! Also did not know he'd cut his teeth on Illuminatus & Principia Discordia. Maybe it's time to read Radicals...
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