| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
The published copies of the 'Cone Zero' anthology is being delivered to me on Friday 4th July. So advance order conditions will only apply till then: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cone_zero_under_way.htm The previous 'Zencore' anthology has been described as 'staggeringly important' and 'Cone Zero' is at least as good, I reckon. :-) | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
A book about cones? Have you lost it?  | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.149.134.59 |
At least you don't have to ask what the point is. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Not yet. Not had it lose. But if I did it would - I suppose - be zero. Seriously, anyone not owning Zencore or Cone Zero will one day regret it. Once gone, they will not be reprinted. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Cone but not forgotten. Damn! Partridge gags avalanche! Seriously. What is the book about? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Joel,your comment is very relevant to the second story in the book. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
DAMMIT. I wanted MY comment to be relevant to the second story in the book! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
The book has 14 horror stories by 14 different authors that are loosely or closely connected with the author's own interpretation of the phrase 'cone zero'. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
You are mad.  | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
"But that's good." | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Albie, the bottom image here is me: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/t_winterdamon_artwork_for_best_of_df_lewis_1993 .htm | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Spookathon. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
The published copies of the 'Cone Zero' anthology is being delivered to me on Friday 4th July. How can I possibly hold my head up? IS = ARE !! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.216 |
>>>How can I possibly hold my head up? Gravity and pride, my boy. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
CONE ZERO has indeed arrived. If I say so myself, it truly looks magnificent. Contributors' copies and first orders have been despatched. For orders and queries regarding review copies: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cone_zero_under_way.htm | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I read one of your stories, Des. http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/three/page12.html Lowered lashes. Interesting. A definite skill with words. Quite confusing though...in an almost understandable way. I almost can't bring myself to accept you exist. If that helps. I think I would read more. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I've just realised the story continues on several more pages...which I haven't read. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
As an aside - are we the only two people who got the joke of THE BURLEY OBSERVER? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
I'm paradoxically more unknown and more well-known than anyone else here. Thanks for your comments, Albie. The two DFL books have been published in America not Britain. But Nemonymous (including Zencore & Cone Zero) by other writers is published by me in Britain. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
BTW, CONE ZERO is actually here in my hand! It's beautiful. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
You've got your cone in your hand? And it's beautiful? There are women and a Tony on this board, man! Chortle. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Would you live in a cone? I would. They are like giant reminders of the toppled ice creams of our youth. Damn! Now you've got me writing about them! (Go, Davros!) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Zencore helps one Cone more satisfactorily. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.96.124 |
I am surrounded by coincidences to the point I'd rather God just popped up and sat beside me and got it done with. Why did this story of Des's have to have Psycho mentioned in it, and all the things that stuck in my mind from it, such as Eroica, as well as the story mentioning also black and white tellies, which I just tonight brought up on the other thread? I am seriously scared. And I won't tell you my big coincidence of the week, god ticking me off and kicking me into line. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Very happy, Tony, to be a provider of interesting coincidences! :-) Meanwhile, here is the first impression of CONE ZERO (only a day after sending it out!): http://kidshirt.blogspot.com/2008/07/welcome-to-new-weird.html Includes: "Like I said: hop on board! In 10-20 years time people will be talking about stuff like this as being the beginning of something new, and tatty old copies of Nemonymous will be selling for stupid amounts." | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
First comments on the CONE ZERO book: http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/2008/07/magazineanthology-review-nemonymous.html It gives this rating: "Highly recommended and is easily a pioneer of the genre." If anyone knows of anyone who would like to make comments on or a review of CONE ZERO (with the actual book or a pdf), please put them in touch wih me. Cone Zero page: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cone_zero_under_way.htm des | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Are there some stories more conical than others? Are some just tubular? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Yes, there is a vase-like story, rather than conical, and one with a cone-shaped joint. The rest are highly conical, except the first story that is hardly conical at all. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Sorry, I didn't originally see the conical / comical -- tubular / tubby joke! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Well, you saw it before me. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Here is a YouTube about CONE ZERO: http://www.ligotti.net/showpost.php?p=10904&postcount=51 | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
LOL I'm scared of cones now! oR DO i pITy coNEs? Nope, I hate cones. No! I use cones as my dinner guests! NO!! Cones are the ones who played the theme tune to SOME MOTHER'S DO HAVE CONES. ENOC was right about Coones. (Gulp. I hope I get away with that one) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
There's a story in CONE ZERO about a red snowfall (but not Rivers of Blood). That YouTube is highly disturbing, I find. In a good way. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Did you not do it? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
It was ok. Should have been shorter though. Or been interjected by other scenes. I get bored quickly. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 81.145.100.125 |
Here is a YouTube about CONE ZERO: http://www.ligotti.net/showpost.php?p=10904&postcount=51 ========================= That was an old Cone Zero - still comes up fresh for me. And here's a new Cone Zero thanks to Tony Lovell: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/a-new-cone-zero/ Would make a great book cover? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.151.150 |
I'd say it most definitely would. God, look - Albie was just here, two years ago. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.151.150 |
So sad reading his voice again. I miss him so much. And that happy other me. |