Imagine an alternate present where the space shuttle hadn’t been such a disaster and the Cold War hadn’t been sole the driver for the space program. Where the dreams of the sixties came true, and the fears of the seventies were never realised. Where the whole Earth is powered by clean energy and humanity has […]
Read more "Moon review"14sec is a great cyberpunk short-film. My man in Budapest, Damage, wrote the screenplay for it. The quality of the CG is particularly impressive. (Warning – contains adult language, gore etc) http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5079658&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1 Productions notes, full cast etc on Damage’s blog.
Read more "14sec"I said there was more, and this is it! I’m one third of the Herald-Sun’s new Geek Panel column. We’ll be reviewing and “live blogging” the next big four blockbuster movies to come out: Wolverine, Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation and Transformers 2. Plus, a bonus film: Fanboys! Which is kinda appropriate. Which means that this […]
Read more "announcing the Herald-Sun Geek Panel"I am tres excited to be able to announce the much anticipated release, well by me anyway, of The Assassins Mashup Project. Wherein a team of writers (and myself) take a short poem and use it as the basis for a slightly longer work. You can find my humble contribution at the very end (warning: […]
Read more "The Assassins Mashup Project"Warren Ellis said the following in his latest Bad Signal email: Sometimes I wonder why, in the age of ubiquitous webcams and dozens of services, I don’t get more videomail or audiomail. You’d think everyone would have a media-mail account — a separate Gmail account, or a Mailbucket account hooked up to an RSS reader. […]
Read more "audio, picture and videomail"from BBC NEWS A very real future for virtual worlds … “Virtual worlds are inherently comprehensible to us in a way that the web is not,” said Mr Rosedale. “They look like the world we already know and take advantage of our ability to remember and organise.” “Information is presented there in a way that […]
Read more "A very real future for virtual worlds?!"This new Cascade Beer ad means Furries is now mainstream: Of course, it was just a matter of time. The eater of the future, C.S.I had had them on an ep some time ago: In future though, we’ll all get to be animals if we want: Which, is just as well, since some of us […]
Read more "Furries hit the mainstream for real now?"from Ain’t It Cool News New Collaboration Between Ghost in the Shell Creator and Animators Announced OVERVIEW 2061 AD. Fifty years have passed since mankind developed the Network society. It was anticipated that this new infrastructure would realize a utopia where people connected with each other at the level of consciousness. However, new social problems […]
Read more "..New Collaboration Between Ghost in the Shell Creator and Animators Announced.."Charlie does a longish reading from Halting State: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-1670032014558458068&hl=en Highlights: First few mins: he talks about how technology seamless weaves itself into society as it develops ~44 mins: the timing of such a novel. that four years ago noone would have got it at all and in two years time it’ll be blaze – mundane […]
Read more "Stross reads from Halting State (plus Q’n’A)"So I just signed up. Gotta take the plunge sometime I guess. And, this way I’ve got an excuse if it’s crap 😉 Gotta particular idea / setting I’ve been mulling around in my head for a while (it’s a Mudane SF / Young Adult novel that may be slightly parallel to a certain other […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 