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 […]
Read more "Kyberpunk? Indian cyberpunk/scifi?"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 […]
Read more "Kurzweil's new Singularity book announced"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 […]
Read more "sweet coffee table book on the futuristic asian cities.."Update on Jared Diamond’s work..
Read more "Guns, Germs and Collapse.."“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 […]
Read more "new book from author of “So Yesterday”.."“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 […]
Read more "new book from author of "So Yesterday".."serenity-76 Originally uploaded by M1K3Y. So good is the Serenity trailer that I’ve watched it about 10 times now, and made everyone I know watch it as well. It seemed everytime I watched it I saw more, guess there’s just so much jammed in there. So, after pestering various people to try and cap it […]
Read more "REAVERS!!!!!!!"Ever wonder where those movies on the ‘net come from? well, watch The Scene and learn.
Read more ""The Scene" a tv-show about the P2P scene"So I’ve been listening to a few of the podcasts out there, and here’s what I think.
Read more "podcast reviews"review of Sony’s new Ultra Portable Computer.. the U-70.. we wants one..
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 