BATH BOOKSHOP FRUSTRATION WALKABOUT: J G Ballard, John Christopher, Peter Dickinson et cetera

[@erikpaterson1404]

I really enjoyed everything about this piece. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks!

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Very, very kind of you Erik, thanks

[@themojocorpse1290]

Been trawling the back list and this one got me thinking I must buy me some more Ballard books. I got an old copy of John Christophers The death of grass recently but haven’t got to read it yet . But I would definitely like some more nice Ballard in hardback . Concrete Island is a nice copy got my eye on that . Great ramble

[@danieldelvalle5004]

Love your walkabout videos, literary references, dystopia, and all. Hope you're feeling better.

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Getting there steadily. feeling better each day but still testing positive.

[@CliveSnowden-fx8fp]

Hi Steve... Just re-visiting this classic from a couple of years ago. Still excellent, still inspiring...and the pleasure cruise moment still makes me laugh... : )

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Yes, that couldn't have been planned.....

[@janeturner5169]

Very enjoyable. Really like the motorway bridge. I spent some time there taking photographs - a monumental space. Not fenced off when I was there. Good strong message about the future of green spaces

[@erikpaterson1404]

Oh just a quick addition in response to @6:45 - the world could be like the Ballard short story, Billennium... a story we read way back doing our A Levels

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

One of my fave Ballard pieces. The idea of doing it for A level- bliss! It was all Chaucer, Shakespeare and George Elliot in my day...

[@erikpaterson1404]

@@outlawbookselleroriginal oh gosh, although very good writers in their day.

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Still having a few problems with mic volume when in non-selfie shooting in this one filmed last weds, before I caught covid. Hope to have cracked this with new mic.

[@salty-walt]

I liked it. Lovely countryside. Perhaps a scathing tour of Narrow Boats next? ;)

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Don't tempt me...

[@salty-walt]

@@outlawbookselleroriginal There's a book you know. . .

[@grantross2609]

must admit that stroll under that underpass brought Ballard's "Concrete Island" to my nostalgic mind...... not sure i'd fancy walking around these places at night these days tho !

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

I'm with you on that!

[@sams5963]

Well I enjoy your Walkabout videos and hope you are able to do more soon. I just bought a Kindle copy of Inverted World. It was sold as Inverted World not The Inverted World so I know it is OB approved.

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Cool. A combination of bad weather, struggles with polymyalgia and my days off falling on those bad weather days have prevented me from doing the out and about shoots I've wanted to do all year. There are more at my channel 'Walking Bookseller', though. I'm always looking for the three conditions to coincide (day off, weather, health) but it's like waiting for planets to line up...

[@richardbrown8966]

Didn't Jane Johnson and M John Harrison collaborate on the Gabriel King cat fantasy novels?

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Yes, they certainly did!

[@sylvanyoung]

SF " is not an escape from reality , but into it " Agree . A warning . Can we stop the flight into dystopia .

[@thekeywitness]

Doing JGB review from a Ballardian location is a good idea. Now do Crash from an derelict parking deck.

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Love it....or an auto wrecking yard. Leave it with me!

[@clivesnowden4348]

Another hugely enjoyable ramble. Psychogeography, autobiogeography (what a great term that is), with bookshop (closed - doh!), pleasure cruise (ha! so funny....), pylons, and some Ballard and Hawkwind references thrown in for good measure. What more could you possibly want? Hopefully you'll be well enough to get out and about again soon. Meanwhile, take good care of yourself. Best Wishes from sunny Berlin.

[@martinkirsch5969]

What a nice area! So, are you Kurtz or Willard? 😂 I love Heart of Darkness & Apocalypse Now; I did a dissertation on Apocalypse Now when I was in uni. Both the novel and the film are profoundly symbolic.

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

I think I'm Kurtz at the moment!

[@williamsdaf]

I liked it before I watched it Steve #psychogeography

[@erikpaterson1404]

Interesting, JC wrote The Death of Grass and Cliff Simak wrote, All Flesh Is Grass... ibwonder if there is / was an allusion to the bible verse; Isaiah 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

[@outlawbookselleroriginal]

Yes, of course, he is referring to that. 'Greener Than You Think' by Ward Moore and 'The Genocides' by Thomas M Disch tap into 'Horticult (ural) SF' as well....