Dropped in the mailbox 3 hours ago. Had errands to do. 🙄😒
Thought this might stretch out to 3 parts, but everything landed today. 😎👍
Cthulhu's Daughters (2016)
AKA "She Walks In Shadows".
Goth lady Lovecraft fans have tried to reclaim Asenath (like Helen Vaughan and Lizzie Borden) in cosplay, fanart, and fanfic, and there was an "official" Asenath prequel in the "Cthulhu's Daughters" anthology that I tried and failed to get for Christmas.
Laudable goal on the part of the feminists, but...I think it's better for progressive authors to add new empowered female protagonists to the mythos.
Like Vellitt-Boe, Maryse Boudreaux, and Aphra Marsh.
I mean, I get it, Asenath is historical Lovecraft canon, but Lovecraft just plain dropped the ball, and it's such a hard messy fix, starting fresh is just the better way to go.
IMHO.
But, that Asenath anthology story could prove me wrong and shut my mouth.
If only I could get ahold of the damned thing. Sigh.
I fucking got it!!!!!!
The company that puts this out went defunct, so the few copies being traded around are it.
Hell, this may even be the last one.
I think that completes the collection. I think I have all the progressive Lovecraftian rebuttal-quels now.
So, yeah, as far as the difficulty of the quest, this makes me happy as a pig in shit.
The proof will be in the pudding of whether it was worth it.
Fingers crossed.
I dunno, I've got a pretty good feeling about it like I did for "Helen's Story".
The Night Land (1912)
Goes with the other William Hope Hodgsons.
A guy telepathically possesses his re-incarnation in the year kajillion, and goes on a quest to save the woman who's the re-incarnation of his dead wife.
In kajillion, the sun has burned out, the Earth is in eternal night, the remaining humans live in a Bladerunner pyramid, and the people who venture out are futuristic knights who wield...pizza cutter weed whackers basically. The wasteland is full of proto-Lovecraftian horrors that they fight with the pizza cutter weed whackers.
Did I mention Hodgson reads like 70's-80's sci-fi? Yeah, he was visionary.
Just the idea of it conjures images of Tron, Krull, Mad Max, the aforementioned Bladerunner, etc, etc.
It's startling how fast sci-fi became itself.
From magical balloon rides to the moon, to weed-whacker knights in the post-apocalypse.
In just about 20-30 years. Fuckin' wild.
(Singing)
Williaaaam!! Your tortured mind is as miiiine!!! Your stories feel like home!
I!! Am!! Not alooone!!!
*Billdude rolls eyes*
😏😁
Joanna Russ: Novels & Stories (2023)
From here...
UKL (Ursula K. Le Guin) had some subconscious internalized patriarchy going on, but she admits it in the collection intro, and says she fixes it in book 4 onward.
Turns out she had someone poking her with a stick.
It was Joanna Russ.
Joanna Russ is the origin story for Le Guin becoming more and more radical.
Russ came right out of the gate with her foot flooring the gas pedal.
CHUDs today cry about "woke ruining (insert medium)".
Russ's fellow leftists at the time (60's-90's) whined about how political she was. Her stances are winning elections now. She was fucking right.
So, obviously, I did the homework deep dive on her, and obviously, I was like "holy shit, she's the author for me!!!".
So, yeah, her greatest hits are in the queue pile.
I think I'm actually more excited for her stuff than I am "Cthulhu's Daughters".
😁😵🥳
Stay tuned for those!! 😎👍
3 comments:
I'd already forgotten that song, but I think I would be willing to read that book.
Still waiting with bated breath for when my own state gets a nasty ICE shootout. God I hope it never happens...
Re: "The Night Land". It's about as thick as "Skeleton Crew" and it's written in a weird 17th century-ish language style to make the world more alien. I've read sample passages, and I think I can handle it. There's a shorter edition by Hodgson called "The Dream Of X" and there's an edition by another guy translating it to modern English. The complete weird-language edition is like the hot-chip-challenge of literature. If H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and C.S. Lewis could climb it, so can I. I should have mentioned all that, but I guess I was saving it for the bigger review.
Re: ICE killings. How deep red is Kansas? Do you have enough hippies and angry grannies? That seems to make the difference. Trump is scared shitless of losing Susan Collins's seat in November so our hippie protests made them back off on the traffic stops last night.
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