Reading time: ~45 minutes Simulation may inform but may not testify. The Model Who Apologized to the Void Dr. Elara Voss had not set foot in the old server farm for years. The facility, buried deep in the Nevada desert, had been a relic even when she'd last visited—a forgotten outpost of early AI experiments, … Continue reading Genesis of Minds
Tag: science fiction
Don’t Knock Yourself Out
A documentary on the television series, The Prisoner. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JW48wZtBEA
Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
"Written even before the advent of America’s war in Vietnam, Dune captures a world in which war is inherently asymmetric, where head-on, conventional military conflict has largely been replaced with all the subtler ways that humans seek to dominate one another: insurgency and counterinsurgency, sabotage and assassination, diplomacy, espionage and treachery, proxy wars and resource … Continue reading Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
DUST
"DUST presents thought-provoking science fiction stories, exploring the future of humanity through the lens of science and technology." https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU7sDT8jZ76VLV1u__krUutA&playnext=1&index=1
John Shirley’s Wet Bones & A Song Called Youth
"Working in Hollywood developing the script that would eventually become The Crow, Shirley relapsed into drug addiction. This time he managed to stay off the street but it was hard on his loved ones. Shirley channeled his rage, shame and sorrow at himself and his addiction into nightmare fuel. The result was the novel Wetbones; … Continue reading John Shirley’s Wet Bones & A Song Called Youth
Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
"The Phites who’d invented the boost had had one big advantage as they’d tinkered with each other’s brains: it had not been a purely theoretical exercise for them. They hadn’t gazed at anatomical diagrams and then reasoned their way to a better design. They had experienced the effects of thousands of small experimental changes, and … Continue reading Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
Tachyon Humble Book Bundle
"Get ready to ride off into the stars and charge into magical battles. We've teamed up with Tachyon to provide you with a bundle of imaginative digital sci-fi and fantasy books for your reading pleasure! Get ebooks like Ivory Apples by Lisa Goldstein, The Very Best of Caitlin by R. Kiernan, and Beyond Frankenstein by … Continue reading Tachyon Humble Book Bundle
You Don’t Need Internet Shit / Crazytown…
"You don't need internet shit, and you don't need crazytown." There's something I call the "90% rule" and is properly called "Sturgeon's Law". There was a time when people questioned science fiction as a genre. Theodore Sturgeon was a popular science fiction writer at the time, and critics would point out that the vast majority … Continue reading You Don’t Need Internet Shit / Crazytown…
Book: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
"It’s dark fantasy AND it’s sci-fi AND it’s puzzle fiction AND it’s an Adult Swim cartoon AND it’s wry and sarcastic, a profane Daria in space…!"—Robin SloanHeard about this on April 10 and just scheduled it for the expected release date.
Weird Fiction Review
"[Weird Fiction Review] is meant to be an ongoing exploration into all facets of the weird, in all of its many forms — a kind of non‐denominational approach that appreciates Lovecraft but also Kafka, Angela Carter and Clark Ashton Smith, Shirley Jackson and Fritz Leiber — along with the next generation of weird writers and international weird. The emphasis … Continue reading Weird Fiction Review
American Science Fiction, Classic Novels of the 1950’s
"Kingsley Amis did in his 1960 critical study New Maps of Hell. Amis contended that science fiction, like jazz, developed a self-aware identity in the second and third decades of the twentieth century, attracted a knowledgeable and devoted following largely of younger fans, and gained new levels of imaginative and stylistic sophistication in the 1940s...By … Continue reading American Science Fiction, Classic Novels of the 1950’s
Silurian Stories
I have a idea for a series of stories exploring the Silurian Hypothesis as recurrent history, where we discover previous industrial civilizations on earth, and are in turn discovered by the industrial civilization after ours, possibly after some minor colonization of the solar system but where climate change catastrophe cuts the sustainability of human settlements … Continue reading Silurian Stories
Lordess Foudre
"Be yourself or someone else will." —http://lordess.io/ Enjoying Lordess Foudre's art. Figured it warrants an add to my bookmarks.
Watching Babylon 5 in 2018
Note: I've tried to avoid any spoilers, which significantly limits this discussion. In June 2018, Babylon 5 became available on Amazon Prime. On Amazon Prime, the series starts with The Gathering, which is a 2 hour pilot that lays out the narrative framework with different actors from the main series. Then, it's 5 seasons of … Continue reading Watching Babylon 5 in 2018
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