In part of his annual state of the world address on The Well Bruce Sterling says: The worst part about writing science fiction is the publishing and distribution system. Practically everything we know about literature and popular literate culture is predicated on the use of ink on paper. I was a big fan of that […]
Read more "bruces on writing in teh 21C"A few quick thoughts on new shows for 2007: 24 – I don’t think I’ll ever tire of watching Jack Bauer ran around shouting at people and pointing his gun at civilians. Seriously. This show may be the most honest show on FOX, showing exactly the future Bush seems to be aiming for. **** Ugly […]
Read more "2007 tv season so far…"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…
Read more "SF in a science fictional world"link to the mp3, and my notes
Read more "2003 interview with Cory Doctorow on “Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom”"My thoughts on two new SF books…
Read more "Glasshouse vs Rainbows End"trying to compare and contrast the two notions – both extrapoliations of how current technology will change society in years to come..
Read more "you say Participatory Panopticon, I say Super Public"Steward Brand gives an interesting review in Technology Review Vernor Vinge dedicates his new novel, Rainbows End, “To the Internet-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives — Wikipedia, Google, eBay, and the others of their kind, now and in the future.” The book is an imagining of how those technologies might develop over the […]
Read more "scuttlebut seems to say read Rainbows End"a critic in The New Yorker finds love for Radiohead.. includes details of new tracks they’re working on
Read more "..Reassessing Radiohead.."An awesome treat here as Tom Maddox interviews Bruce Sterling for his podcast. Hear Bruce’s theory on what Asimov what be doing if he was just getting started today. Or why Bruce still hasn’t finished his ubicomp book, but is still publishing a novella on the subject.
Read more "listen to Tom Maddox and Bruce Sterling chew the fat"from Charlie’s Diary My next SF novel, the stand-alone “Glasshouse“, comes out in hardcover on June 30th in the US, and July 6th in the UK. And this is what Publisher’s Weekly had to say about it in their starred review: The censorship wars — during which the Curious Yellow virus devastated the network of […]
Read more "Charlie Stross has a new novel out soon – Glasshouse"
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 