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Mark W. Tiedemann

Mark W. Tiedemann

has 67 followers and is following 52 people

Writer. I commit science fiction. Do a search, you may find several of my novels. I'm working on more.

Former president of the Missouri Center for the Book.

Occasionally I do photography....sometimes music....sometimes I just read a book.

Recently I decided that this would be a good place to store the list of all... more »
  • St. Louis, MO, USA
  • member since September 4, 2007

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  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    Have you read any E. L. Doctorow? I am reading Homer & Langley and it's amazing. His writing is comparable to Cormac McCarthy (less violent, though) and to Phillip Roth (less acerbis as well).

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    No, paperback, small size, not the tradepaperback. It was a good deal, and prob would have passed it up had we not talked about him a few days ago.

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    Went out to a local library in the area, they have a Friends of the Library Bookstore. This place was no bigger than a broom closet it seemed, but they did have Wilbur Smith's The Diamond Hunters for fifty cents. Couldn't pass that up.

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • mark s

    mark s says

    yep:)

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • mark s

    mark s says

    got your pm, tried to respond. However to send the info was blocked by my work.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • the Ink Slinger

    the Ink Slinger says

    "In a weird way, it's kind of a zombie story, only the zombies are mutated plants rather than reanimated dead people."

    Yeah, that's a good way of describing it. Certainly had that feel.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    I think the pinnacle was reached in the 90's with Seinfeld (even though I love that show), where they openly flaunted that it was just a show about nothing. And now with this new 3-D technology for the television (which I think is a joke) it just edges a few steps closer. Have you seen the movie Brazil? Very similar themes if you think about it.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    I think that's the whole point. Some people thought arrogant and condescending while others (including me and Halo and Mimsy) thought otherwise. I do think it was a case of clashing personality types. Which is why I toyed with the idea of giving Mark S the tranc gun to shoot anyone getting to hyped up, but on second thought, Mark may like the job too much.

    On a side note, I finished Fahrenheit 451. I was surprised by the elegant writing but caught off guard by the vid show 'the relatives' that he created, I laughed when it was described as a family all yelling at one another. Then I had an eye opening experience when I realized that in the 70's (about 20 years after this book was written) an iconic television show comes out called All in the Family where a group of relatives all sit around and yell at one another. That'll make you read more.

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  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    Well take your time, don't worry about it. I really wasn't planning on doing that SF/fantasy thread until we had time (code word for after the holidays) when people have the concentration for it. Also, we are having "the discussion" now about other people's opinions, and I am bringing up the fact that it's not only opinions we have to watch for but the way they get expressed as well (those are two different things). Halo and I don't mind it all, really, but we will step in when it gets to the ad hominum stage.

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  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    Well she has taken off as well. Probably let the dust settle a bit I think. Let the eggshells harden a bit. To be fair, you were put in a defensive posture right off the bat and that was unfortunate and unfair.

    And the educational part of my idea is essentially what I had in mind when I was thinking "what if I started a group" train, and then Halo happened to say that we should start a group. Maybe it is a tad idealistic but nothing ever was worth doing that didn't start out as such.

    Oh and I ran into Shelfari's censors before. There is a pre-Shakespearean English play titled "Tis A Pity She's A W-hore". I should see how Shelfari lists that one.

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  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    Well, I was already to gang up on you about Tom Waits, Springsteen and accordions lol. I did have fun talking music and was forming some questions that I would have liked to discuss about bluegrass/C&W. Another time perhaps. One thing I did have in mind (and I was going to use you and Mark S) was in the near future I want(ed) to create a SF/fantasy thread where we talked about the history and also all the various sub-genres. I think it would be a cool project and there are enough people in that group that read SF/fantasy that they would find it interesting (probably more interesting than my Le Carre posts lol). But I was thinking about that maybe early next year when we get our sea legs. I think you and Mark S would be most valuable in that. I was hoping to include Melmoth but I don't know what Darilyn would have thought of him!

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    Mark, sorry that happened. Wish I had been there to head it off at the pass (not sure what I could have done but...). If you feel like joining up in the future, you are more than welcome.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mimsy R

    Mimsy R says

    Sorry. It was supposed to be funny - want me to delete it?

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • the Ink Slinger

    the Ink Slinger says

    You're one of the only ones I know on here who has read Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids. What did you think of it? I enjoyed it, for the most part, though I was bummed by the cliff-hanger ending. Supposedly Wyndham died before he could write the sequel.

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  • Richard Bunning

    Richard Bunning says

    Thank you Mark. I hope you get a good deal sorted soon.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Richard Bunning

    Richard Bunning says

    Mark, Will you consider putting your books on kindle? Or are they available on another eformat? I have never read any of them, even though you have been writing for years. I was very surprised to find that they were so hard to get hold of.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jerry M

    Jerry M says

    Mark, you may have seen me lurking around the sf and fantasy groups asking questions. I have always enjoyed your responses, learned a great deal, in fact. So I want to invite you to look at a new group I started with one of my friends on this site. It's called Slippery Fish Island (it's a line from a song where the singer says time is a slippery fish). We want to talk about good books, good movies and good music and good anything else. Mark S is there and already nesting! Check it out, if you like it feel free to come on in. If it's not for you, then that'll be too bad as we could do with your good insights and comments.

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • mark s

    mark s says

    interesting. I don't have a blog or a webpage myself, but I can see where it would come in handy.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • mark s

    mark s says

    what exactly is a widget...and what does it do?

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Michael E

    Michael E says

    Maybe I am stretching terms, partly in looking for common threads that link my own choices of reading. Am sure there are scholars aplenty that dissect noir. With Ellroy and Jim Thompson in my sampling, part of the stylistic vision of their universe seems to be an inevitable corrupt element that almost has a life of its own.

    But you must be right about Asimov a stretch too far. Maybe the thought relates to the potential for AI to turn nasty in his tales. Like the case of genetic engineering gone awry, the origin of the malevolence is from human creators and almost fated in a Faustian or Frankenstein sense, making it a catch-up ball game for the hero bucking the kali principles of the universe.

    When the bad forces get reified, you get out of noir territory into magical realism (of the negative sort), and far enough you get to the Lovecraft or Tolkien zone. Am fascinated by the spaces between and prefer the hard sci fi to fantasy. I pursue Lethem and Mieville, but they are a real challenge. Wish for more books like Bladerunner/Electric Sheep. Wind-up Girl hit the spot. To probe for the source of dystopic imagination I read "I am Alive and You are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick". Still trying to make sense of the compellingness of dystopias and lightness in the darkness.

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