After my post on the SciFi world we live in, I decided to start reading Doom Patrols. I’ve stalled at Chapter 7, but have saved some select quotes to share. from Chapter 2: We used to wonder whether machines could pass the Turing test, and fool an outside observer into thinking they were human. But […]
Read more "quotes from Doom Patrols – part 1"zomg – I read another book. This is getting crazy. Don’t tell anyone, but I’ve already grabbed something else off my shelf. I suspect once I’ve got a car again, this reading thing won’t continue. But I was also checking out audible.com last night, and though it actually costs $$$, the idea of listening to […]
Read more "Halo – the book having nothing to do with the xbox game"I don’t know how it is that I haven’t come across the work of Richard Kadrey before. It was only when Warren Ellis linked to his new video blog, Dispatches from Probability Beach, that he appeared on my radar. But from the first story from Kadrey’s mythical town I was immediately a fan. Then something […]
Read more "Metrophage – a review"Bloc Party‘s new album, A Weekend in the City. I believe The Prayer will be the first single, but Uniform is my fave track by far. This is cd is both more sparse and more layered than their debut. newuniversal, a new take on an old series, this time with Warren Ellis at the helm. […]
Read more "3 awesome things that kick off '07 nicely…"Bloc Party‘s new album, A Weekend in the City. I believe The Prayer will be the first single, but Uniform is my fave track by far. This is cd is both more sparse and more layered than their debut. newuniversal, a new take on an old series, this time with Warren Ellis at the helm. […]
Read more "3 awesome things that kick off ’07 nicely…"John Rogers expands from his recent post to elbaborate thusly (from which I’m just gonna pull the highlights, but the whole things really work a read): 4GM: Nobody gets Rich, Everybody Gets Paid … Whedon’s Angel very much died because the WB realized they were just advertising for 20th Century Fox’s box sets. … DVD […]
Read more "..4GM: Nobody gets Rich, Everybody Gets Paid.."In part of his annual state of the world address on The Well Bruce Sterling says: The worst part about writing science fiction is the publishing and distribution system. Practically everything we know about literature and popular literate culture is predicated on the use of ink on paper. I was a big fan of that […]
Read more "bruces on writing in teh 21C"Warren Ellis recently said is his post Flying Frogs And Crashed Rocketships
I share a conviction with Steven Shaviro, whose most recent book was CONNECTED, that we live in a science fictional world. Not the one everyone expected, of course no jetpacks. But good science fiction, challenging science fiction, is never about the future we expect. Sf has never been about predicting the future. Its been about laying out a roadmap of possibilities, one dark street at a time, and applying that direction to the present condition…
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Read more "2003 interview with Cory Doctorow on “Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom”"My thoughts on two new SF books…
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 