Month: October 2003

ahoy, space-debris! thanks for calling!

A neat website, with a neat review of a Wuthering Heights roleplaying game.

Though I don’t really play them anymore, I’m superdooper keen on the way that people reframe old things in new ways. Fan-BLOODY-tastic! (Sounds like it could be fun, too.)

If you like the science fictional genre “space opera”, I would very highly recommend Charlie Stross’s Singularity Sky.

What happens when an autocratic society meets an economic and informational singularity? (By singularity, seem to mean the thing that Vernor Vinge talks about here and which the transhumanists seem awfully fond of.) There’s some neat stuff in this book.

(Though one section of the book, which I misread as a flash-forward which contained a flashback and was only a flashback, confused the hell out of me for about 150 pages, until I reread the (ho ho) offending passage for the fifth time.)

It’s a fun one, though the very mathematical/geometrically defined and described space battles did a number on my poor wee brain. This one I would highly recommend to any science fiction readers out there!

An interview with the author, here. (He likes Bruce Sterling: hope that won’t be too much of a disincentive, i!)

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UPDATE: I just remembered that this short story, “Lobsters”, was the reason that I picked up Singularity Sky.

foible, these happy (nothappy) searchers

right side of the brain
right side brain
right side of brain
magnatune
laugh your heads of
brain right side
grant morrison interview comic journal
the right side of the brain
collapsible dolls
grant morrison interviews
kinds of monkeys
pressure behind eyes
robert anton wilson interview
some guy
strange instruments
why is my brain slow
ah me
fear of centipedes
gamezone carrollton

are you hiding inside of 20 questions? or spooked by the crunchy numerals?