November Books 8) Eurotemps

[nwhyte]

8) Eurotemps, edited by Alec Stewart, devised by Alec Stewart and Neil Gaiman

A collection of stories setting the UK government's Department of Paranormal Resources in a European context which I picked up at Octocon, apparently a sequel to an earlier collection; a British, more bureaucratic version of the Wild Cards stories. Interesting to realise

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[girfan]

The rozk books I have pertain to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'll have to look into getting a copy of Eurotemps.

[andrewducker]

Temps is also good fun. Nothing that exciting, IIRC, but worth a read.

[rozk]

My non-fan fiction consists of five novellas for Midnight Rose, a story in the Kushner/Sherman Horns of Elfland,a story Liz Holliday published in Odyssey, two unpublished non-genre novellas, an unpublished non-genre novel Tiny Pieces of Skull, the first section of an abandoned space opera The Lacing and a work in progress. Everything except TPS and the current project is up at my website here.

And then there is the fan-fiction - I don't make that big a distinction, but I know people do. All I will say is that there is quite a lot of it.

[martin_wisse]

I had the impression europhobia had actually subsided in the past ten years or so, which is why its remaining adherents were getting increasingly rabid.

[nwhyte]

Au contraire, I think it's actually becoming mainstream in Britain. Look at the way that Brown is forcing Milliband to water down his pro-Europeanism, and members of his own party are comparing Milliband to Neville Chamberlain. I've seen sane and sensible lefties on my friends-list posting all kinds of paranoid speculation about the EU treaty. And if you thought the Roberts article I linked to was bat-shit insane, you were of course completely right, but do you think that the Daily Mail published any rebuttal - or felt the need to?

[pmcray]

It is almost unheard these days for even the most mainstream media outlets such as the "Today" programme or "Newsnight" to feature even mildly pro-EU participants. The agenda is totally dominated by the absurd rantings of morons like Roberts.

[brightglance]

I was surprised when I met a few English people recently, from different class backgrounds, how anti-EU they seemed to be. There was a definite anti-immigration element to it, as well as "we give too much money to the EU" and "we just want to have our own British laws and not have rules imposed by Brussels". They were bitter about not being likely to have a referendum.

It was probably rude of me to say that Ireland would be having a referendum because of our written constitution but that the UK wouldn't have one because of its own special constitutional traditions. But I got a bit tired of "well of course you support the EU because Ireland has got lots of money from it".

Re: the Daily Hate Mail article

[redfiona99]

I don't know that's a pretty fantastical piece of science/political fiction. I fear also that it's terribly wrong because there's no mention of Austria, and we have a pretty good history of ordering people about ;)