October 2018 – Cathy McGough

What I’m Reading Now – A Thousand Mornings & Roadside Picnic

October 25, 2018 Cathy 0

I finished Elizabeth Gilbert’s book last night. It was excellent and I think I’ll probably read it again. I read a first edition hardcover copy […]

What I’m Reading Now – The Signature of all Things

October 23, 2018 Cathy 0

I often get asked what I’m reading, so here it is. As with my books you can check out a preview with this link. I’m […]

“To which I replied that my stories were by no means “statue” stories, immobile, fixed, permanent. They were assaults, and if they ruined her equilibrium only once, I’d settle for that. I wanted explosions, not cool meditative thinkpieces. There are other writers who do those in abundance; what I do is something else.”

Ellison Wonderland Sept. 1966

Foreword How Science Fiction Saved Me From A Life of Crime

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Stories

Harlan Ellison

“What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies, rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.”

Norbert Wiener

The Human Use of Human Beings

Cybernetics and Society

“We had given AM sentience. Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless. But it had been trapped. AM wasn’t God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity.”

HARLAN ELLISON

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

“There was the button that produced literature. And there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world.”

E. M. Forster

The Machine Stops

“On a big moon it looked like that lake was full of water instead of dry salt. It looked like a different country that thing, a whole nother continent. Went as far as you could see, this empty white space. Like something you could step away into and get swallowed up and never find your way back.”

Cathy McGough

@ Stratford Living

Month: October 2018

What I’m Reading Now – A Thousand Mornings & Roadside Picnic

What I’m Reading Now – The Signature of all Things