Media Whores – a tale of pr0n and zombies in a post-post apocalyptic Japan

I discovered JunkDNA when Warren linked to his microfiction writings on Twitter . He describes his work thusly on his MySpace profile: I’m a short story author. I scritch-scratch in a little known genre called BIZARRO (twisted fiction). It is heavily poisoned with cyberpunk, hardboiled, and/or noir elements. I like it like that. As the […]

secrets are cool – a review of Spook Country

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. […]

William Gibson – we're living in a 1980's SF novel

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 […]

..William Gibson: Sci-Fi Icon Becomes Prophet of the Present..

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, […]

lessons from Steampunk on Cyberpunk

Been devouring the Steampunk magazines – thanks to a heads up from BoingBoing and Warren – a xerox subsidy that saw me getting caught in pre-longweekend traffic. grr. On my first pass through I’ve skipped the plethora of fiction, preferring the articles examining just what is Steampunk. Mostly defined as a sub-genre of Cyberpunk, that […]

EscapePod.. aural sf pr0n

Thanks to Rachel for putting me onto Escape Pod. She mentioned she’d grabbed Impossible Dreams after it was posted on BoingBoing, and that it was decent. I’ve added the podcast in iTunes and have been working my way backwards through their recent stuff. It’s such a great way to sample new (to me) authors with […]

BoingBoing podcast#13..

BoingBoing’s latest podcast is chuck full of goodness. Download it now, or just listen to it here. The first 10 mins is an ace discussion of predicting the future. At 18 mins in they’re actually talking to their guest, Jane McGonigal about ARGs and what designing games means in 21C. At 29 mins in they’re […]

Mark Twain in ‘stralia…

Don’t you just love the internet? One minute I’m reading about Hollywood burning. Four clicks and three minutes later I’m reading about Mark Twain’s trip through Australia. And that there’s a whole book about his adventures. Leave it to FirstPerson to do a selected reading from it. Here’s a few of them: April 30 May […]

quotes from Doom Patrols – part 1

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 […]

new works of Sterling and Stross

Continuing with the reading, I decided move out of my retro cyberpunk phase and back into present. Trundling down to magnation I picked up the latest (January) issues of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Asimov’s. I rarely read these magz. In fact I only seek them out when forewarned that they might contain interesting content. […]

The Committee to Nuke Elysium

we're gonna blow up your space thing later

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