The RAA catalogue on their Anish Kapoor show makes a link between the uncanny and Edmund Burke, seeing the uncanny as the dark side of the sublime (linked to terror), but as far as I can tell Burke doesn't use the term "uncanny". Thus far google mainly finds the truism that Burke is uncanny about the French Revolution and Royle doesn't have Burke ( Read more... )

My mother currently has a secondhand desktop PC and uses dial-up to access her Yahoo mail. She basically word processes, with occasional use of Excel to do the Christmas card and holiday postcard address labels. My dad still does the odd bit of accounting, but would run a mile from spreadsheets. We're basically talking letters of complaint to M&S ( Read more... )

Can anyone confirm that New Fresh Wharf is/was on the north bank of the Thames, east of London Bridge, near Old Billingsgate Market/Thames Street?

Also, were there plans for London Bridge as-is to lift a la Tower Bridge, in its design stages in the late 1960s/early 1970s?

I'm trying to put together a list of sf writers active before 1950 - although I may push that back to 1945 or 1940 - and publishing sf in the 1970s. I've got:

1. Isaac Asimov
   
2. Alfred Bester
   
3. Leigh Brackett
   
4. Ray Bradbury
   
5. Arthur C. Clarke
   
6. Robert A. Heinlein
   
7. Andre Norton
   
8. Theodore Sturgeon
   
9. A.E. van Vogt
   
10. Jack Williamson
    

Naomi Mitchinson is a separate issue ( Read more... )

I'm doing lectures tomorrow and next Monday on avoidable errors in essays and dissertations - formatting of titles, bibliographies, use of apostrophes and, above all, misused words ( Read more... )