So sad.
The Culture is one of the most entertainingly explored ideas in a book I've had the pleasure to immerse myself in. It seems like a huge loss--a sympathetic mind, gone.
I am looking forward to "The Quarry":
Quote:
"The narrator is an 18-year-old boy who's on one or two different spectra, possibly Asperger's being one of them. But in a sense, the main character's his dad, who's dying of cancer.
"But I was 87,000 words into the book before I discovered the bad news. I had no inkling. So it wasn't as though this is a response to the disease or anything, the book had been kind of ready to go. And then 10,000 words from the end, as it turned out, I suddenly discovered that I had cancer.
"I've really got to stop doing my research too late. This is such a bad idea."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22780003
09 Jun 2013, 12:36 pm
