So, this post is after reading all of the Cycle except Nightworld and nearly all of the rest of the Secret History.

It's mentioned repeatedly that The Otherness despises humanity, and Rasalom devours sadness and despair. I think there was one mention of Rasalom being unsure of The Otherness because his power was growing slowly right there, but one thing hit me: if The Otherness gains sustenance and glee from sadness and despair, what's to stop it from taking away Rasalom's power after he attains total global domination.

Imagine this line of thought: Rasalom conquers all of Earth making The Ally lose all interest. He controls Earth completely, then in a final act of conquest, The Otherness removes his power. Imagine the pain, fear, sadness, hate, and utter despair Rasalom would feel after millenia of working for this spot only to have no way to maintain it. I don't think any despair could ever compare to that.

It was a random thought I had while idling away for Nightworld's rerelease.

Has anybody seen this show? Creator of LOST; J.J. Abrams's new work, "Alcatraz" is mysterious action/crime drama.

In 1963, all the prisoners and guards mysteriously disappear from Alcatraz. In the present day, they resurface and a secret agency are tasked with re-capturing them...


I just saw first 2 episodes only, but I definitely love it!

We're giving away 5 signed copies of NIGHTWORLD courtesy of the good doctor. Head on over and enter. Contest ends midnight on the 31st!

www.horrorworld.org/nightworld.htm :drum:

p.s. I thin Jim Caviezal would make an awesome RJ - has anyone seen him in Person of Interest? The last episode, when he dispatched the bad guy - he gave Harold a glare that would do Jack proud. JMHO - please don't flame me. :target:

Just finished Infernal and found it the weakest book thus far in the Adversary Cycle / Repairman Jack (I've read all except Nightworld from AC and the first 8 RJ books). It was very predictable which is odd for Wilson. I also found large sections incredibly boring - could not stand all of Tom's thoughts, his brooding was just over the top. I'm really hoping the actions in this book are key to some things that will happen in future books. Especially since very little was investigated / learned as far as the Otherness story in this book.

4/2 - I gave some fellows permission to adapt yet another short film from my 1978 "Lipidleggin'." A little about it here including a link to the story. (I thought I was being tongue in cheek; turns out it's coming true.) http://lipidleggin.com/


4/3 - I'm very happy to have been a teeny part of George Scott 's efforts for the troops. http://tinyurl.com/6q2kw2z


4/3 - Perpetual Kid... I love this site http://tinyurl.com/77krkj2

4/5 - I'm going to brave LV in July for TAM 2012.


4/6 - can I just say something? Banjo rolls are damn hard. And my ring finger keeps wanting to get in the act.


4/7 - digging Sarah Jarosz lately. Listen to her take on Tom Waits's "Come On Up to the House" from her 1st CD. What a mandolin player http://tinyurl.com/6ggumsz


4/9 - "Justified" is over. Great, disarming end to the 3rd season. Now there's a void in my Tuesday nights.


4/10 - Is it just me, or is this crazy? I feel like I'm living in Bizarro World. http://tinyurl.com/82uwbwj


4/11 - does anyone hate the Nationwide guy more than I? I mean, really, he's... he's... (fill in the blank)


4/11-15 - at RT Booklovers Convention. Wonderful to reconnect with the friends I’ve made here since I started going. More and more male authors every year. James Rollins making his first appearance. When I first went, Barry Eisler and Yrs Trly were the only ones. This was the biggest RT ever - 2500 attendees.


4/14 - a stop at Chicago Comicon (C2E2) for a panel and a signing with a (relatively) new author named Patrick Lee.


4/20 - I just finished Patrick Lee's THE BREACH. I can sum it up best as "Wow." The novel reads like a bullet and kept me off balance the whole way. Not many novels do that nowadays. It's so damn original it makes me jealous. He's got an audacious imagination and a transparent style that does not get in the way of the story. Is it perfect? No. But it kept me so hungry to know what was going to happen next that I flashed right past any potential glitches. This guy can write. I'd never heard of him before. Met him at C2E2 and he gave me a copy. I dipped into it on the plane home couldn't get out. I've just ordered the next two books in the trilogy. Really, if you like thrillers, there IS something new under the sun -- it's THE BREACH.


4/20 - I think "Fringe" jumped the shark tonight.


4/21 - Just came across this old newspaper photo. My first store signing - with Isaac Asimov, of all people. He had a line out the door and I got pity sales from people waiting on line for him. But hey, a sale's a sale. Dig those 1970s lapels. http://pic.twitter.com/NfWBSYJX


4/22 - Watch this. It's beautiful and amazing. http://tinyurl.com/6l2zmj4


4/22 - COLD CITY pages proofed. Now for a little EtOH.


4/22 - my triffids are digging today's rain. They were getting a bit parched and droopy but have all sorts of energy this now


4/23 - listened to "Someday" by Sugar Ray in the car this a.m. Forgot how much I like this song.


4/25 - no, Blastr, I did not influence Stephen King (but thanks for the thought). This isn't accurate where THE TOUCH is concerned. King was being published before I was, and CARRIE saw print 12 years before THE TOUCH. (But he does accuse it of literary value. I still haven't decided what to make of that.) http://blastr.com/2012/04/the-17-classic-stories-th.php


4/26 - I find this very disturbing... http://tinyurl.com/7od3sz9


4/27 - Unhappy with the way your kids load the dishwasher? Make them play Tetris and watch the improvement.


4/28 - Doing an article on =Unaussprechlichen Kulten=. My copy's a bit bloodstained. Anybody have a clean copy I can borrow?

I caught this last Thursday, and I don't want to get everybody's hopes up, but it ticked all my boxes and was everything I hoped. :D

So much so that I saw it again yesterday. Still good. And I hope Whedon gets the credit he is due for pulling this together. It could have gone so horribly wrong, but he was the right choice for the job and he didn't drop the ball.

Go see it!

Any other Brits catch Four Rooms last night. Someone was trying to sell a wallet made of human skin to the dealers. It was made from the skin from the hand of William Burke (the body snatcher!)

He was trying to get £50,000 for it.

Reminded me of Foet - not quite as gruesome - but made me want to dig it out and read again

I couldn't find this in the search, so sorry if this is a repost, but how old would Jack be?

I ask because I think with the revisions there is a huge discrepancy.

With the original books, Reprisal would have happened, roughly in 1992, and since Jack was born in 1968 with Rasalom that would make them both in their 20s. I think this is reflected in Reprisal with Rasalom being a graduate student. Now, if we consider that Reprisal ends after Ground Zero, that would make Reprisal taking place well after 9/11. Jack would be in his mid-to-late thirties then.

I am just trying to get clarification for my mental pictures.

Also, has FPW ever mentioned future books/stories on the First Age? I really want to know more about Rasalom's genesis.

A friend wrote this series and its a very different take on zombie apocalype. Until midnight tonight it is free. The fourth book in this series is only online right now but I am a character in it. (I die a horrible and gruesome death - yay)

http://www.amazon.com/What-Zombies-F...5236100&sr=1-1

Back in the early seventies, I caught some "movie" on the NY Channel 5 (don't remember the call letters). It felt like it should have been on PBS - as it was definitely unusual. But I, not being a movie person, have absolutely NO idea what it was, even though I remember parts to this day.

I'd say it was B&W - but then, that's the only TV we had, so who knows :) The filming was very much more like a play than a movie - and it felt sci-fi'ish, though, it looked "modern day." (OK, my memory may be fading...)

There was a group of "older" people who had been sent to an island to live (and I don't remember if it was because they were older or because they were all artists of some sort.) The state was expected to come to "put them down" (my term) because of their old age, but they chose suicide.

That's all I remember - does ANYONE know this play/movie? If ANYONE can figure it out, I'd think it would be this crowd!! :D Is it based on Huxley or Kafka? Please help!! THANKS!!!