Science Fiction by Walter Tevis: The Big Bounce
“I WAS so excited by the thing that I couldn’t sleep that night. I kept dreaming of power stations, ocean liners, even automobiles, being operated by balls bouncing back and forth in cylinders.”
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Steven S. Drachman on Walter Tevis, the author of The Queen’s Gambit
The Queen’s Gambit is the feel-good alcoholic/drug addict movie of the year (and possibly of all time), and a terrific tribute to the vision of its creator, the novelist Walter Tevis, who wrote The Queen’s Gambit in 1983, in addition to The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Color of Money, but who, till now, has not been a household name.
Do We Need Another “Man Who Fell to Earth” Sequel?
Man Who Fell to Earth sequel news: Bill Nighy has signed on to star in a new Showtime series that picks up where the Nicholas Roeg movie and the Walter Tevis novel end. Here’s why this is a bad idea.
Editor’s Pick: Five Years Without Bowie
David Bowie died five years ago, and it seems like yesterday, waking up to that horrible news. But it also seems like a lifetime ago, because of the lifetime of horrible things that have happened since then.
Oblivioni Rediscovers Dana Gillespie’s Lost Masterpiece
This is the way the brain works, why we like the things we like. Back in the 1970s, I picked up a copy of The Man Who Fell To Earth, by Walter Tevis, the author of The Hustler. A great, beautifully written little book about class alienation (metaphorically expressed in the story of a literal […]