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Somewhat surprised to discover that a science fiction anthology for which I wrote the introduction is now available for pre-order. Honestly, I did think it would be later in the year or even next year before it appeared. Anyway, the book is called One Million Times edited by Rogelio Fojo and R. James Doyle, and was sparked by a Christopher Priest story, which is how come I was invited to write the introduction. It is available through Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Million-Times-Science-Anthology/dp/1915304806/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ASAYLH1VV0J7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6a_PFoZm20O5numlgzcQ48OwrYJW_NacfVcvIudwb20c1ODsRyXo72C414l-vtjGaxVIsT4rc65XkrY-Msuuf9AncoFyTwejcOKd8uKeOK0j0dQ50IuXtK9G-javTg3CglozsRK9B-OcBu_UAlJj3euJccoGZtVAEwQYjWbswyIxkHOQqg8JkUa3lQohgMeslCYUr_AHOyWW-RuEKzrnEF78nEBtJJ4QdBp-bL6b_3M.gOJJXcJoW1kKCfyB6KVR0UJOehGqykdtFzdLESQMU3o&dib_tag=se&keywords=one+million+times&qid=1741247115&s=books&sprefix=one+million+times%2Cstripbooks%2C98&sr=1-1

And while I was checking this out I noticed that my own new book, Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, which comes out at almost exactly the same time as the anthology, is also on Amazon. Ridiculously I hadn't thought to check beforehand.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colourfields-Writing-About-Science-Fiction/dp/1738561739/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1JRIM8874M6CF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Upb0sFRAGK1rP2yaP0WN_YcQsDzj2okxuagegMkT4blHbqnrY-0E-YR95IeiCDwKBGQjIkv-plbEjdY07LWF0HU4nvp95ziU3oynB_lImq6nIffpKm0R3EIz7l9MZ8C7ktzQoSvWmOJYPUEL_b-S59H4mV6mIHRMoglJm0VMapYVUfXYj1qdvDqkS7vjZbW8dsSLuhsynjh1hQ57JcrC2rL3xBWOBQq_W1mmPHN9Stw.mM5aWMOjz370JP9EO3JwtqWXAQmns-aFA7TV0tW4Z-c&dib_tag=se&keywords=paul+kincaid&qid=1741247444&s=books&sprefix=paul+kincaid%2Cstripbooks%2C87&sr=1-4

I am currently reading Stefan Collini's Common Reading, and in an essay on Edmund Wilson I came across a lovely line. In later life, Wilson was holed up in the family home on Cape Cod, "blinds drawn against the light, Scotch opened against the dark." I would love to come up with lines like that.

I'm reading a collection of essays and reviews by Stefan Collini, and in a review of a biography of Aldous Huxley I came across this reference to Huxley's time in Hollywood around 1940: "His later letters are full of references to unused scripts and unrealized projects. High on the list of the latter was the musical comedy version of Brave New World: the rights were sold, but, as Murray drily notes, 'the musical remains unmade'."

I am trying to imagine Brave New World as a Hollywood musical.

I'm trying to work out how to habituate myself to using Dreamwidth, since what usually happens is that I post entries haphazardly, don't get into the habit, and so all too readily just forget about the whole thing. Facebook is the one exception to that and I'm not exactly sure why except that there is one characteristic it shares with Dreamwidth, the ability to write at length. I don't always want to write at length, but I don't like the constrictions of a maximum number of characters. So I suppose it is probable that the reason I lose interest in so many social media platforms is that I don't want to be tied to how much I am allowed to say. It is this relative generosity on length that makes me think Dreamwidth might (just might) prove a viable alternative to Zuckerberg's Trump-worshipping, no-fact-checking, despicable little regime. So, I thought for a while I would mirror my posts to both platforms just to see how it goes. If Dreamwidth does prove appealing, then in time it will be easy to just start running down the Facebook posts.

One last question to those who have been here longer than me: is there a Dreamwidth app? It would be much more convenient to call it up on my phone or tablet if I didn't have to keep logging in every time.