from tyeebooks.ca William Gibson Hates Futurists The night they started to broadcast television in New York, New York ceased to be what it had been before. Because everyone stayed home to watch television. … Virtual reality was one of our most recent experiences of a future that didn’t happen. The one before that would have […]
Read more "..William Gibson Hates Futurists.."from Rudys Blog On Mundane SF … I dont think SF is necessarily about predicting possible futures. Ive always felt that SF is more like surrealism. The idea is to shock people into awareness. Show them how odd the world is. Whether or not you draw on realistic tropes is irrelevant. … Let it be […]
Read more "Rudy Rucker weighs in on Mundane SF"Man, i love William Gibson’s writing. I can even deal with the 4 -5 year wait for a new one we get these days. And with Spook Country he’s as on the money as ever. It’s always the first third I love the most. Wherein he sets up his universe of characters, technologies, corporations etc. […]
Read more "secrets are cool – a review of Spook Country"I linked to Gibson’s interview on Trashotron earlier… This is my fave quote – where he talks about living in a SF world. He elaborates on this in his recent interview with the BoingBoing crew. All this of course is in support of his new novel, Spook Country. Which is due to arrive on my […]
Read more "William Gibson – we're living in a 1980's SF novel"from Boing Boing Get-together with Cory at Melbourne Writers’ Festival this Friday I’m in Melbourne, Australia for the Melbourne Writers’ Festival and a number of people have written to see if I can get together for coffee or a meal. Unfortunately, my schedule’s too tight for much socializing. Lucky for me, Lachlan Musicman, Guy, and […]
Read more "Get-together with Cory at Melbourne Writers’ Festival this Friday…"from College Crier: … T. Virgil Parker: Your early Sci-Fi commented obliquely on contemporary issues, but it gave you a very unique set of strategies that you’re using to explicate the present. William Gibson: Well, I don’t actually think they’re unique because I acquired them through the course of working in the genre of science-fiction, […]
Read more "..William Gibson: Sci-Fi Icon Becomes Prophet of the Present.."from JoBlo.com Neuromancer comes After more than two decades of influencing countless modern sci-fi stories and concepts in film, TV, videogames, books and comics, an adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal 1984 novel NEUROMANCER is finally heading to theaters. Producer Peter Hoffman will essentially make the movie as a $70 million indie. Director Joseph Kahn, whose […]
Read more "…Neuromancer comes…"from Charlie’s Diary Shaping the future … The big surprise in the 20th century remember that personal jet car? was the redefinition of progress that took place some time between 1950 and 1970. Before 1800, human beings didn’t travel faster than a horse could gallop. The experience of travel was that it was […]
Read more "..Shaping the future.."If anyone’s going save us from this imaginative death of the future, it’s the InternetJesus.. from Warren Ellis‘s livejournal You are never going into space. You will never own a jet pack. Your car will never fly. HIV will not be cured in your lifetime. Cancer will not be cured in your lifetime. The common […]
Read more "Doktor Sleepless is coming to save the future"Attention Conservation Notice: This is a long rambling post about what I think The Future means (and doesn’t mean) today. It also has some pics and trailer for the new Disney movie 😉 If we’re living in a science-fictional world, does this mean the future, as a concept, no longer exists? Was the “future” just […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 