Harlan Ellison’s “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54’ N, Longitude 77° 00’ 13” W" (mainly because I am just enough of a science-nerd to know what the Islets of Langerhans are)
Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck
Larry Niven’s The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton (a title which is a triple entendre)
Pink Floyd’s “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict”
Ignorance is being fought in this thread and I am a better man for it.
**Haunted Pasta: Something Wicked This Way Comes. ** : I am both embarassed and enlightened that this is from Shakespeare. I thought it was a Bradbury original. :o
mbh:"*Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54’ N, Longitude 77° 00’ 13" W" . * I am a fan of Harlan Ellison but not familiar with that particular title. Just did a search for “Islests of Langerhans” and was surprised to learn what they actually are. No clue, of course, as to the coordinates. :dubious: Looking forward to reading the story.
My recollection, based on a Cook interview (think it was from The Filth and the Fury) was that it means “stop your nonsense”. A food vendor used to say it to them, like “stop screwing around, what do you want to order?”
Fred Pohl’s autobiography: The Way the Future Was
Cordwainer Smith’s stories had sone amazing titles, although most of them were chosen by his editors. Cordwainer Smith - Wikipedia
“Scanners Live In Vain”, “The Game of Rat and Dragon”, and “The Ballad of Lost C’Mell” are three titles that pop into my head. Most the titles for his stories are great. His writing is fantastic also.
“*Chronicle of a Death Foretold *”, the novella by Gabriel García Márquez, is my favourite book title I think. Would also give a smil and a nod towards Dick’s, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” though too.
Favourite album title is easy. “Back in the DHSS” and “Trouble over Bridgewater” both by Half Man Half Biscuit, closely followed by Kirsty McColl’s “Electric Landlady”.
I read this, too, many years ago in Norman Spinrad’s The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde. It was someone else’s book. a few years ago I sought out and purchased my own copy of it.
There are some great stories in that collection.
I read it in Dangerous Visions. Which also has some great other stories in it.
Norman Spinrad came to my college lit course to talk about his book The Iron Dream. He autographed my copy, the only book I own which is signed by the author.