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ellen_datlow) wrote2008-04-05 01:37 pm
ellen_datlow) wrote2008-04-05 01:37 pm
A Book of Unspeakable Things: Works inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book
A Book of Unspeakable Things: Works inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book was created for a French exposition commemorating the 70th anniversary of Lovecraft’s death and edited by Patrick J. Gyger. The introduction talks about Lovecraft as a “science fiction writer” and describes how this Commonplace Book, kept from 1919 and 1934, recorded ideas that the author planned to use in developing his later fiction.
Twenty, one-page pieces of text and one hundred pieces of art were commissioned. The book contains most of those commissioned (the text is in both French and English). The first half of the book consists of pieces by Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, James Morrow, Norman Spinrad, Ian Watson, Terry Bisson, Paul Di Filippo, Christopher Priest, and several French writers. The second half is filled with eighty-nine pieces of Lovecraftian inspired art by John Couthart, H. R. Giger, and other artists whose names are unfamiliar to me. All in all, a wonderful artifact
Thank you so much, Jeff, for acquiring this copy for me. It's yummy.
I misspoke, it is available for sale-someone I know bought one:
Maison d'Ailleurs
This is what the person told me:
Yes. I had to email a query about ordering, but I got a quick response. I
think it came to about US$50, including airmail shipping, and I was able to pay via paypal.
You can contact them at: maison@ailleurs.ch
Twenty, one-page pieces of text and one hundred pieces of art were commissioned. The book contains most of those commissioned (the text is in both French and English). The first half of the book consists of pieces by Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, James Morrow, Norman Spinrad, Ian Watson, Terry Bisson, Paul Di Filippo, Christopher Priest, and several French writers. The second half is filled with eighty-nine pieces of Lovecraftian inspired art by John Couthart, H. R. Giger, and other artists whose names are unfamiliar to me. All in all, a wonderful artifact
Thank you so much, Jeff, for acquiring this copy for me. It's yummy.
I misspoke, it is available for sale-someone I know bought one:
Maison d'Ailleurs
This is what the person told me:
Yes. I had to email a query about ordering, but I got a quick response. I
think it came to about US$50, including airmail shipping, and I was able to pay via paypal.
You can contact them at: maison@ailleurs.ch
Re: For those who may- like me- be curious:
I'm probably a little confused --I hope Jeff will correct me--was it for this Swiss exhibit or the Utopiales (french) thingie you and a bunch of other sf/f writers have attended in the past???
In any case, if you see my correction in the original post, I believe it still can be purchased...I'm checking with the person who told me to see where/how he bought it--if it was directly from the site or some other way.
And you're very welcome!
Re: For those who may- like me- be curious:
And thanks again, this time for the pointer to where to get it!