Comments on: Review of K.A. Bedford’s Paradox Resolution https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1407 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:27:06 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1407 I read a review of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe in The Age before I bought it. Your reaction is interesting, perhaps I missed his sarcasm towards the genre. Great title, not so great book. Definitely the best thing about it. If only I could come up with a title like that.

]]> By: graywave https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1408 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:57:46 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1408 Hmmm. My reaction to HtLSiaSFU was more visceral than that. I'd been sent it to review by the publisher but couldn't do it. I was so angry about it that any review would have been a mere rant. I felt insulted by the book – perhaps on behalf of the SF genre. I thought, "This guy must really hate SF to trash it the way he does in this book." I don't mind people poking fun at the tropes (many such books – Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, The Hitchhiker's Guide, etc. – are brilliant) but this just seemed nasty. And the reviews I read of it seemed also to be by literary types who'd found a new friend to snigger with.

Probably completely unjustified paranoia, of course 🙂

As for winning a copy of True Path, good onya, mate!

]]> By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1409 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 01:20:33 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1409 Hi Anthony,

The character's real name is Aloysius Webb, hence the nickname.

]]> By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1410 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 01:19:15 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1410 Hi Graham,

I've read How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe too, and I did not think much of it. Too abstract? The author was definitely trying to be too clever. The two KA Bedford novels are vastly more entertaining. And I am now reading, and so far enjoying, your novel True Path, which I won a copy of.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1411 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:52:02 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1411 Sounds like quite a good read. Making it Australian-centric with language is a good idea. Not sure I like the character's name though.

Cheers

]]> By: graywave https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1412 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:37:01 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/review-of-k-a-bedfords-paradox-resolution/#comment-1412 Thanks Graham. It sounds like fun. I'd noticed the first book but always thought the title sounded a bit too silly. (It also makes me think of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – which I read and hated. I don't know why the link is there – both time travel stories? both came out at the same time?) Maybe I'll have to get both of Bedford's books now. (Also, he's represented by the same agent as me, so I feel like I should read his stuff for some weird reason…)

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