Iain Banks' "Complicity".
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Iain Banks' "Complicity".
There are a number of second-person narrative.
I've written books in the third person, and books in the first person. Next up: a book in the noughth person.
This is brilliant. I especially like the "it comes by night" riddle.
I wonder if St Martin's Theatre (since 1952 it's only staged one single play: "The Mousetrap") has any more production stills in its archives. I might drop them a line.
Great news.
I came across some images of the first UK performance of Δapekβs "R.U.R." that I hadn't seen before, so I posted them online: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/some-image...
It's a magnificent movie.
No need to freak! After all, pacclabmech is *not* mehee yem.
Isn't "Come On Please" an Oasis album?
PUBLIC ENEMY [*getting stung*] ow! You've got to fight the power! Fight the power! You've got to fight the power!
ME: Can you be a little more specific? Who am I fighting exactly?
PUBLIC ENEMY: [pointing to insect buzzing back towards hive] That bee!
Dark, yes, but hardly stormy!
He's a goner!
I can do that posthumously, can't I?
Surely that would make him UNIVERSALLY BELOVED.
A still from the new Guy Ritchie YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES. Somebody is murdering the "Apostles". According to this list next up is: Professor Roberts!
Uh-oh ...
I'm sorry to hear this Martin! Hope the rib isn't actually broken.
There is, famously, a reference to Mary Shelley's novel in "Great Expectations"
A screenshot from the 1898 Insurance and Financial Gazette. The plaintiff is named as "Mr Samuel Frankenstein"; "Mr H. F. Dickens Q.C." appears on behalf of the plaintiff. Frankenstein wants his Β£52 back, that he paid for shares in the "Gavin House-to-House Cycle and Insurance Company Limited", which proved fraudulent.
Today I learned that, in 1898, Charles Dickens's son Henry Fielding Dickens, a barrister, prosecuted a fraudulent Insurance Office on behalf of a client called Frankenstein.
Also worth your time: this Wiktionary explanation of the word "coffer" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coffer#...
LoD is currently Β£4.89 on Amazon, the 81,662th bestselling title on that site. But if you don't want to shell out that kind of money, then you can read this new short story for free, gratis and without putting money into Amazon's coffers: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/emembededed
"A brilliant book, heady and hearty, not simple nor purely pleasurable, which is to say Yet Another Fucking Adam Roberts Novel. Who does this man think he is."
At the risk of indulging myself, I quote the review's final paragraph. Not purely pleasurable: qute right!
A @waxbanks.bsky.social review of "Lake of Darkness": waxbanks.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/l...
Bravo!
MOBY RUCK
I know it! Used to read it to my kids.
