Des Lewis

#GestaltRealTimeReviewing & Nemonymous, Weirdmonger, The Last Balcony, Dabbling with Diabelli, Man Too Mean To Be Me, Gauche Stories, The Ghosthunter….

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

Me and my elbows in 1959…
And it is the terraced housing behind me that bears the second face.

DF Lewis (1948 -)
Published Writer, Publisher of others & Fiction Reviewer
Amateur Photographer (iPhone)
Main site: https://t.co/hkI0blxCbH
Scenic photos: https://t.co/UYzgRSFeL1
Nonscenic photos: https://t.co/TMPlAtPIW8
Creator of two Facebook Groups: ‘Artistic Photos of Elbows and Elbow Shapes’ and ‘Classical Music, new and old, for the innocent ear’.
‘Nemonymous’ Wikipedia: https://t.co/EBFMrL036o

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

THE CRISIS
“Some people associated the iGhetti with Dark Matter; some with the banking crisis of the late Noughties.”
…a major SF story of our times written from if not in the past, where I associate its astral jelly called iGhetti with Brautigan’s ‘iDeath’ of the 1970s,…

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

The root of the Booker winning novel?
Here is my detailed Gestalt Real-Time Review in 2017 of the M. John Harrison story collection: YOU SHOULD COME WITH ME NOW

@commapress

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[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

I attended the World SF convention in 1979 in Brighton. Who else did, reading this?
I recall M. John Harrison attended it, too; he was already a known author.

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

“The house was full of well wishers.” - from CICISBEO by M. JOHN HARRISON

CONGRATULATIONS!

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

Me as Jacques Tati in 2024

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

Spot the Lady

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

THE SHADOW’S DEPARTURE (2009) by Travis K. Weltman

This Weltman story is a highly effective, stylistically Ligottian story.

#ThomasLigotti

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[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

This is an incredible classic novelette: SALMON WIDOW by Tim Nickels (2009): https://t.co/vPOg9bgakf

fao @LaliNickels

[Grant Wamack @grant_wamack]

One of my favorite weird fiction authors final book is about to drop. I’m sad and excited at the same time…

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

@grant_wamack Thanks so much, Grant.

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

This is most definitely a great work of art.
The cover by David Rix for a book very shortly to be published by Eibonvale Press.
My final fiction work ABANDONED WORDS, newly written in 2024.
More details later. Very exciting for me.

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

Steve Duffy’s THE LION’S DEN 2009
A new theory: https://t.co/yvbC6iuhCi

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

“Des is an old man now, something he acknowledges with characteristic candour on his blog. Time, which plays such tricks on the narrator of my story…”

Above is an extract from a blog post today from Andy Kirby that has made my day! —

https://t.co/lpo5mfzSU7

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

“…if x is not done by y, then x will have to be done in z… […] …legs and arms splayed across the rails in a rough equivalent of an X.” -HOW TO KILL AN HOUR by A.J. Kirby (NEMONYMOUS, Cone Zero, 2008)

My revisit to this story: https://t.co/8FzIn2tOm6

@ajkirbyauthor

[Tony Ballantyne @TonyBallantyne]

@TimLees2 @DF_Lewis Gosh! That was a long time ago!

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

THE CONE ZERO ULTIMATUM

[Des Lewis @DF_Lewis]

A wondrous fiction prophecy by @Bob_Lock in 2008 of the AI situation today. @moltbook @OpenAI @claudeai

Wider context; https://t.co/N6YTrlRR8d