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"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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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 