Islam in Sci-fi Literature
Islam in Sci-fi Literature from the creator of Sultanpunk v
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Kyberpunk? Indian cyberpunk/scifi?
Sounds cool.. from Express India’s Mc Fiction It was over lunch at an Indian restaurant in London that writer Ian McDonald was inspired to choose Varanasi as the backdrop for his next page-turner. My then-editor at Simon and Schuster, John Jarrold and I were wondering why is there so little SF set in, and about […]
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KurzweilAI.net The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil will be published by Viking Press on September 26, 2005. A web site focusing on the book, singularity.com, launched today, includes book excerpts, press coverage, author bio, and other resources. In this much-anticipated sequel to The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurzweil presents the […]
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How good do these look? Jakarta Post interview with the photographer … Currently, over half of the 25 highest buildings on the planet are in eastern Asian cities: Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Bangkok to name a few (meanwhile, five of them are in America and none are in Europe). Asian megacities also […]
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Wired News: Shoplifting as Social Commentary Yomango calls on anti-consumerism activists to “liberate” goods from stores in an effort to spread the ideals of brand-free living. The movement started in 2002 in Spain, where thrifty followers staged choreographed shopping-mall stunts like looting clothes from one store and returning them to another or wearing them back […]
Read more "Yomango – Shoplifting as Social Commentary..?"books keep changing..
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Amazon.com starts selling exclusive digital “shorts” Amazon.com Inc. started selling new works of short literature and nonfiction on Friday from authors who write them exclusively for the Internet retailer. It’s not offering printed editions, just digital copies that can be e-mailed, downloaded or printed from a Web site for 49 cents a pop. […]
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Update on Jared Diamond’s work..
Read more "Guns, Germs and Collapse.."virtually cheating..
from Salt Lake Tribune – Nation and World An official monitor in the online role-playing game Second Life told BBC News in April that he knows of spouses of game players who have actually paid money to online-game detectives to learn whether their mates are committing ”virtual adultery” with other players’ characters in the course […]
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“So Yesterday” was one of the best books I read last year, up there with “Pattern Recognition“. But I’d never heard of the author, Scott Westerfeld, until Cory dropped an excellent review of said book on BoingBoing.. Well, now he’s pimping Westerfeld’s new one, Peeps, and it sure sounds good: Peeps is a science fiction […]
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“So Yesterday” was one of the best books I read last year, up there with “Pattern Recognition“. But I’d never heard of the author, Scott Westerfeld, until Cory dropped an excellent review of said book on BoingBoing.. Well, now he’s pimping Westerfeld’s new one, Peeps, and it sure sounds good: Peeps is a science fiction […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 