A Theme: What I Want for Christmas

A Theme: What I Want for Christmas

I want an official Daisy Red Rider carbine action 200 shot range-model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing with tells time.

Okay, if that one didn't give it away, then you really need to re-evaluate your pop culture learning.

Well, welcome to this first blog posting for mason-emerson. If you've followed my blogs before, you know that I am rather poor at keeping these up. But, as I said in my New Writer's Journey blog, the one previous to this, I think if Neil Gaiman can do this, so can I.

Over the next few days I plan on posting a list of stuff I'd like to get for Christmas. That way, when the inevitable question comes, “What do you want for Christmas, little boy?” I won't be trapped into stuttering out the unintelligible “football.”

As always, I want books. For those of you who don't know, I am in the process of trying to phase out all of my paperback books for hardbacks. The best place to purchase the hardbacks, or any book in general for me is at www.bookfinder.com. This beauty of a site should make any book purchasing easier. And if you aren't getting me anything for Christmas, then check out the site anyway, whether you're a collector or a reader it's just a good place to get books.

That being said, I am going to start a listing of the books I want in order of my desire to read them or what I need. Complete lists of good reads are available through the Center for the Study of Science Fiction and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. But, here are the books I want no one has to get me any or all of these, but this will give you a good ballpark direction to look:

McKee, Robert, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Gibson, William, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive

Gaiman, Neil, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Stardust, Neverwhere, Any Sandman graphic Novel, except Volume 1

Herbert, Frank Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse: Dune

Herbert, Brian and Anderson, Kevin J., Battle of Corrin, The Road to Dune, Hunters of Dune, Sandworms of Dune

Aldiss, Brian, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter, Long Afternoon of Earth or Hothouse

Peake, Mervyn, The Gormenghast Novels

Farmer, Philip José, To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Ellison, Harlan, Dangerous Visions, Again, Dangerous Visions

And here are a couple of the movies I wouldn’t mind getting:

Equilibrium

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Serenity, Special Edition

This is a start to what I'd like. More to be posted in ensuing days. But I hope this gives a general idea of what I'm after.