Nor me. But it's happening and I don't suppose either of us are going to take steps to effect a change to it.
Missed it. There is only one English language bookshop I know of in the Canaries, and it specializes in potboilers.
Phew. Thanks, George. I shall dig in when I can. I've slipped with my science fiction in the past quarter century.
"In the Year of the Sex Olympics" was a tale of a globe so severely overpopulated that TV was essential, to keep the majority housebound. Otherwise mass death and rioting in the streets. The program-makers discovered that watching a SINGLE couple up close and really personal (more or less invisible technology), without any of the trappings of modern civilization (ring any bells?), on a lonely secluded island, beat even the Sex Olympics, which up to then was the most popular program. So they watched the couple live through a mean barbarous year, with ratings declining
ever so slightly. Then one executive had a brainwave... he introduced a psychopath to the island...
There would have been a marine in me, I'm sure. I failed entry for RAF fighter pilot (Hornchurch, Cranwell) er, a half century ago. Honor, duty, service. It still pisses me off.
Hey, I've just checked YT and it's there. Resplendant in black and white. And it was 1968. They say if you remember the sixties you weren't there. LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9NP5F9X2F8
and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNCOA7rQtTc