Des Lewis will be 77 years old on 18 January 2025
Those who have read these episodic brainstorming reviews of mine must know they are very personal — rough-shod and spontaneous. Synchronicity and anagram mixed. I know they are not professional, never potentially publishable other than in the madness of my head, but I do hope they show grains of dark truth and cosmic panache.
These Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews were founded in 2008.
‘What’s the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in your mouth, in the shape it makes on the page? What do you think? Well now, I’ll tell you: E-L-B-O-W. Elbow.’ — THE SINGING DETECTIVE
“How shall a man find his way unless he lose it?” — Walter de la Mare
To any current genre author I have reviewed before — if you have a new story recently published or soon to be published in a collection or anthology, you may have a review by me of the story that also showcases where it is published. See HERE. (This is because I am no longer well enough to review as many books as I once did.)
Fresh Fictions, free to read HERE.
No AI input in preparation of my texts whatsoever.
THE NEW NONSCENIC
Photos here: https://conezero.wordpress.com/2024/02/24/d-f-lewis-recent-photos-1/
The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
Greta Thunberg has significantly guest-edited today’s TODAY on BBC Radio 4 this morning.
The Facebook post at the head of this thread above has its exact seventh anniversary today. The photo was taken by me in 2008 In Norway, and the corner devices added at the time of the old FB post,
Today’s tweet:
Cross-referenced Dead Astronauts with W.B. Yeats’ poem THE SECOND COMING via this Rucker story today: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/12/20/the-far-tower-stories-for-w-b-yeats/#comment-17732
I am delighted that I have known for some months that a story of mine from the early 1990s is included in THE BIG BOOK OF MODERN FANTASY edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
Any author has the right to interpret their own book, but the author is one among many.
Now knowing that the Kindle has the grey text as bold is a bit shocking!
Eyes of the Overworld
2020 Vision
Transcending the aforementioned Intentional Fallacy….
But I hope this link is useful.
I am 72 on January 18 2020, midwynter not midsommar,
As I said earlier in this endless real-time review about Dead Astronauts as a fiction book – “And in due course, please replace “Potentially great book” above with “Preternaturally great book”, with the intrinsic disintention of preternature, perhaps seen for the first time in literature as gestalt.”
https://nemonymous.livejournal.com/332939.html
All The Words We Know by DF Lewis
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Cross-referenced Dead Astronauts with the concurrent Steve Toase tour de force here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/12/21/synth-4-an-anthology-of-dark-sf/#comment-17829
Seems to bear out some of my comments ….
Later cross-referenced Dead Astronauts with the Gregory Norman Bossert story here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/black-static-73-interzone-285/#comment-17902
Cross-referenced with A SPILL OF BLACK DREAMS here:
After much thought, I have added Dead Astronauts to the prestigious list here:
Cross-referenced DEAD ASTRONAUTS with the final work in ‘The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature’: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/the-immeasurable-corpse-of-nature-christopher-slatsky/#comment-18254
from ALL THE DEAD PILOTS by William Faulkner
“; a look not exactly human, like that of some dim and threatful apotheosis of the race seen for an instant in the glare of a thunderclap and then forever gone. […] …the portent and the threat of what the race could bear and become, in an instant between dark and dark.”
Irrespective of what happens from this point onward with Covid, all fiction and films created in the past (even those in the can and still due to come out as new fiction or films) will be period pieces not reflecting the transformed world we are now entering since only a month or two ago.
As one example, I think the social distancing choreography is pretty radical.
I was watching a film just now, feeling worried at the close proximity of people in public places!
And, of course, most importantly, the potential healing of Climate Change…in reality and in how this affects art and other human and natural activity.