WARNING: Do not read if you haven’t read Zero History and intend to (here be a giant spoiler). Also requires knowledge of not just the Bigend trilogy, but also the TV shows Mad Men and Sons of Anarchy. Kevin and I came up with a counterpoint to Bigend-Draperism the other day. It is Pollard-Tellerism. Cayce […]
Read more "Bigend-Draperism vs Pollard-Tellerism"Between the recent minor internet war, as Joel Johnson tried to compare geeks and hipsters, and miss lizbt’s comments to me on the weekend, I’ve spent the last few days with a minor identity-crisis. Am I a geek, a hipster, something in between, or just me? And, of course (since it’s constantly on my mind, clearly), the […]
Read more "Hipsters, techno-hipsters, being hip and Gibson’s characters"Pattern Recognition – Chapter 23: Dickheads The rain has stopped but drops still fall from ledges and awnings, beading on the nylon of her new Rickson’s. Absently she reaches to touch the place where the tape should be, but it isn’t there. No hole. History erased via substitution of an identical object. Pattern Recognition – […]
Read more "Buzz Rickson's"Attention Conversation Notice: SPOILERS! Big giant ones. Also, not a review – though it may contain traces of one. The author reserves the right to wax lyrical, reminisce, draw inappropriate comparisons between his own life and that of Gibson’s protagonists and slowly wander back to the subject at hand. Highly dependant on the reader having […]
Read more "Reflections on Zero History"(Caching this important piece here for posterity..) Googles Earth By WILLIAM GIBSON I actually think most people dont want Google to answer their questions, said the search giants chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. Do we really desire Google […]
Read more "Gibson on Google"For my friends that couldn’t make it (or are not in Melbourne) here’s a rough brain dump of the Eyeborg presentation, from Sunday night at The Other Film Festival. In summary, I was extremely impressed with Rob ‘Eyeborg‘ Spence’s presentation. He is funny, smart, well-spoken, knowledgeable.. and he looks like a pirate! (I may have […]
Read more "notes from the Eyeborg presentation at The Other Film Festival"I recently concluded my brief tour of the classic, nay original cyberpunk series Max Headroom. The brevity of which had nothing everything to do with the Digital Archive Project preserving this show in varying degrees of quality, and my media player only being able to handle but a few of them. Of course, it’s just […]
Read more "Depicting the Future: Max Headroom vs Dark Angel"from Mundane-SF: “Take the Third Star on the Left and on til Morning!” by Geoff Ryman … Being a Mundane boils down to avoiding old tropes and sticking more closely to what science calls facts. We believe that for most of us, the future is here on Earth. … I dont believe in starships. At […]
Read more "selections from Geoff Ryman's speech on Mundane SF"from Mundane-SF: “Take the Third Star on the Left and on til Morning!” by Geoff Ryman … Being a Mundane boils down to avoiding old tropes and sticking more closely to what science calls facts. We believe that for most of us, the future is here on Earth. … I dont believe in starships. At […]
Read more "selections from Geoff Ryman’s speech 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"
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 