Paul M. Cray
@pmc
"A plain, unvarnished Preston man." Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Writer and AGI researcher. Interests: books, food, futurology, historiographic metafiction, ideas, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity
Anyone else remember this, the 'Sunday Times' Magazine for 23 December 1979? It made a huge impact on the 11-year old me. The issue also included an Eddie Braben script (putatively) of the unmade M&W 1979 Christmas special
For the Heptobrot Set, we get a hexagonal fort embedded in a field of objects with 7-fold structure
Has strictly heptagonal symmetry. In fact, the got always has one less lobe than the degree of the Multibrot as we see here in these images of the Octobrot Set
Might be of interest to some in this bailiwick: "Ursula is inspired by science fiction books from the photocomposition era" typewest.letterformarchive.org/2025/#/flora...
Look what arrived! My wife ordered a trampoline from Dick's and needed an additional to get the order over the value for free shipping. I immediately suggested a cricket ball
How was I unaware that this had finally actually been published? And, seemingly, at the end of last year
I've only had the chance to open a few of the boxes of my books that arrived in Seattle and then only to explore the topmost books, but already many lost treasures have resurfaced including this one that might be of particular interest to @celestialweasel.bsky.social and @nicholasroyle.bsky.social
I am pretty sure I bought this in Brighton, so it must have been some time between the summer of 2010 and October 2014 when I did the @arvonfoundation.bsky.social sf course at Totleigh Barton
I love me a remote archipelago! The scale on the map is 50 m, but make that 50 km or 500 km and you have yourself the perfect fantasy or sf map!
