#Eddie Robson

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okay. Doctor who moots. I went and did something crazy (finished a book) and I need you to do it too

It’s called Drunk On All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson and it’s good good. I literally bought it because I was poking around a sci-fi section in a book store, flipped to the back of it and saw “also known for working on spin off things for Doctor Who” and went “SOLD”

It’s a murder mystery set in the near future with cool diplomacy stuff. The protagonist is this punkass woman who grew up in Halifax and moves to NYC to work as a translator for the alien cultural attaché, and it’s really witty and cool and has great worldbuilding.

As someone who went from watching the veritable shit show of the finale to finishing this book, I can say that it’s great if you need to be reminded what good modern sci-fi looks like after what rtd just did to us all last night.

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Title: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words | Author: Eddie Robson | Publisher: Tor (2022)

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Rebellion Releases: The latest 2000AD – and new Battle Action, too

2000AD Prog 2347, on sale this week, comes with a striking cover by Stewart K. Moore and plenty of all-out action inside! Plus, we've got a new issue of the mini-series, Battle-Action, to enjoy from Rebellion, too!

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Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

By Eddie Robson.

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One Quote Book Recs

"The good thing about carrying on a conversation with a phantom voice projected by some fragment of your shattered subconscious is, you can brush your teeth at the same time."

-- Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

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Review: Hearts of Oak by Eddie Robson

Author: Eddie RobsonPublisher: Tor.comReleased: March 17, 2020Received: LibraryFind it on Storygraph | More Science Fiction Book Summary: The city has always been here, and that’s how it feels to its residents. Iona has designed so many buildings that she can’t remember which are hers and which are her students. Meanwhile, older buildings keep coming down to allow for newer (and larger)…

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The way Saori arranged the facts made it sound like Weston had come back from the dead and taken fiery revenge on the building that killed him. But Iona wasn't going to comment on this, because it was insane.

~Hearts of Oak by Eddie Robson

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Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

Lydia is a translator, but, not in the usual way. She translates for the alien Fitz who is telepathic. And, when she does it, she has no memory of doing it, not to mention, the Logisi language has the side effect of intoxicating humans. So, while it’s not surprising that she has no memory of the night that Fitz is murdered. And, that also means that she becomes the prime suspect because it appears that she was the only one who could do it.

I mean, this book had me at getting drunk on words. The world building of who and how the aliens is awesome, as well as the Logisi language and its side effects on humans. It’s a really cool locked room sort of mystery as well as an awesome science fiction novel. Just so many things that kept me reading.

You may like this book If you Liked: Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada, The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, or Translation State by Ann Leckie

Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

[nzbookwyrm]

Slight correction: the title is ‘Drunk on all your strange new words’

(I made the same mistake at first too)

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Eddie Malavarca and RE Rodgers are tied for who had to do the most on-screen SA scenes. Apparently Malavarca had to do it because he kept showing up late to set and the writers threatened if he showed up late for work again he was going to have to do a rape scene and then he showed up late again so they made him do the 2nd one. And then from what Im reading Rodgers just really liked to have the most drama and be super intense and he kind of became their go-to guy when they needed to film 3/4 of the most graphic scenes on the show because he had a real down-for-whatever attitude. im pretty sure hes the only one on the show who not only had to do a full on-screen rape scene that doesnt cut away at all but hes also the only actor on the show who they had have nude full-body contact with another actor. Like yeah Meloni kissed some dudes but he had Brendan Kelly laying on top of him while neither of them had pants on for however many takes of a scene that lasts more than a full minute. That's some dedication to the craft right there

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Hello~ International House of Pancakes

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New science fiction “The Heist of Hollow London”, on the way from Eddie Robson

Doctor Who audio drama writer and comic creator Eddie Robson’s next novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, will be published by Tor in September

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spoilers for the secret history (doctor who audio play) but it genuinely goes so hard. The Meddling Monk splices the Fifth Doctor into the First Doctor’s timeline as part of an impossibly elaborate Scheme to force him to change history and get the Time Lords to oubliette him out of existence so he can step into the hole in the air the Doctor’s disappearance made and BECOME him. all because the Doctor got his best friend killed in the future. insane revenge plot. you hate him so you become him. the power of the doctor before its time. amazing

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Outra cerveja antes do almoço

Vamos ser sinceros: não tem que ter caixinha de som na praia, principalmente tocando música alta. Você pode achar que fez a melhor seleção musical do mundo, mas sempre tem a chance de mais alguém achar que também fez e a coisa virar uma disputa de som que pode acabar com cara de poluição sonora pra quem não escolheu ouvir. Dito isso (e considerando possibilidades como fone de ouvido e praia…

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15.22 Kiss Chase

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The Last-Minute Sci-Fi Gift Guide

There's only one thing worse than procrastinating on getting gifts for your loved ones, and that's procrastinating on putting together a guide to help out everyone else with all those gifts. It's Dec 12, so you can decide for yourself which I'm doing.

Art book: Worlds Beyond Time, $32

If you follow this blog, you might have heard of this one. I published Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s this year after five years of work on it, and I think it's really good! 400+ images, 100+ artists, with lots of fun art history and jokes.

Also, it's just $20 right now if you order through my publisher and use the code SKIPTHELINE! Cheapest it's ever been!

Card game: Coup, $14

In this "social deduction" card game, you play as a government official in a future dystopia who needs to backstab their way into power. Everyone starts out with just two cards in this bluffing game, so the tide can turn pretty quick when players start assassinating each other's cards. The fast pace makes it a good gift for someone who loves spies but thinks they don't like card games.

Game to play over Zoom: Bad Spaceships, $3

If a bluffing game stresses you out, try Bad Spaceships: It's a collaborative world-building game in which you roll dice to see what area of your spaceship connects to another, forcing you to spitball exactly why this is the case. As the game puts it, you might fix the hull by playing Tetris, or charge your weapons in the swimming pool. You're basically getting weird prompts to tell a story that can evolve over the course of the game.

It's such an indie game that it comes as PDFs you download from itch.io, but you can play it just as well over Zoom, if you're looking for an excuse to catch up with your old digital nomad college friend.

Movies/TV: Streaming service gift card

Gift cards are all well and good, but you can personalize them by recommending a few of your favorite shows as well. I suggest:

Hulu: Cowboy Bebop

Apple TV+: Severance

Criterion Channel: Ravenous, Paprika, Strange Days

Paramount+: Yellowjackets

Amazon Prime: The Devil's Hour

But to be honest, this entry is just an excuse to talk about the new Max show Scavenger’s Reign. Inspired by the work of French artist Moebius and with a clear debt to famed 70s animated film Fantastic Planet, this stylish sci-fi show features a bunch of humans trying to survive on a beautiful but hostile alien world. Perfect for lovers of fictional nature.

Vintage sci-fi

This Etsy shop has some good stuff, like the 1971 Frank Kelly Freas NASA poster above, a bit of history that I even mentioned on page 167 of my art book.

Penguin science fiction postcards, $28

These postcards have a ton of very cool sci-fi covers I've blogged in the past – great value if you want a lot of art for a low cost.

Meteorite pendant necklace, $34

I think we all know what kind of rock your loved ones need around their neck: A chunk of meteorite straight out of the 1576 Argentinan meteorite fall.

Book recs

For astronauts: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel by Meredith Bagby

For comedians: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, Even Greater Mistakes: Short Stories by Charlie Jane Anders 

For sleuths: Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

For crafters: Knits of Tomorrow: Toys and Accessories for your Retro-Future Needs

For the resistance fighters: The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley, An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

For slasher movie fans: Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare

Syd Mead "Biomorph Vehicle" button down shirt, $49

T-shirts aren't classy enough for the world's coolest visual futurist, Syd Mead. I haven't actually bought this incredibly odd shirt, but I really need to.

Art prints (and more) from 70s sci-fi artists

Artist shops can be surprisingly hard to track down on the internet, but here's a short list of ones I've come across. All of these artists are featured in my book (except one), so you can read up on them before you commit to a print.

Michael Whelan 

John Harris

Syd Mead

Don Maitz

David B Mattingly

Peter Andrew Jones - Jones was one of just a few artists who declined to be included in my art book, but he has a distinct, colorful style that I would have loved to have featured!

Finally, here's one extra bonus, just for everyone who made it to the end of this article: The UK-based educational charity Centre for Computing History sells three big officially licensed John Harris posters featuring these three artworks, famous for their use as covers for Sinclair programming manuals.

It's a great deal that I've never seen mentioned anywhere, and Harris' work has a timeless quality that makes it great for an unassuming wall decoration. If you're outside the UK, the shipping costs will be a pain, but there's no better deal for a classic sci-fi poster.