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Vernor Vinge Paints the Future at AGC
"Award-winning science fiction Vernor Vinge, speaking at the Austin Game Conference, gave his vision of a future in which connectivity was literally in the air around us." Hat-tip to Bruce SThe Greatest Show In The Galaxy: A Sci-Fi Blog Carnival
Solar Flare is starting up a SF/F blog carnival, which I've often thought would be a great idea, but (unsurprisingly) never got round to doing anything about. I shall be contributing something, methinTimesOnline celebrates PKD
"The fame of the science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick [...] has grown in the years since his death, thanks largely to films based on his work, but also to changes in the world, or at least to ouImplant Rejection
"Until we reach a stage where nano-magical systems can rewire our brains at will, I don't see non-therapeutic brain implants ever becoming popular." Jamais Cascio shines a light on a classicSoulfrost | Art, Style, Music And Design
Work of artist and musician c.johnson aka soulfrost. genres house to downtempo to bigbeat and more. illustration to web/print design.REVIEW: The Space Opera Renaissance
"It takes a certain ambition to try to get your editorial arms around space opera because it seems that everyone has their own definition of it." It also takes a certain ambition to write a30 years of the future
"It was once for children, now it's much loved by adults but the authors of legendary British comic 2000AD are shocked how many of their predictions have come to pass." BBC news from MegaCitModest Muse
"Author J.G. Ballard’s influence on modern music." Interesting interview / retrospective piece.Neuromancer - from prose to comics to cyberspace
"...a site which has taken the long out-of-print graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning novel [...] published by Epic Comics in the late 1980s." Mmmm - it *looks* 80s, too.Philadelphia Eagles vs SF 49ers highlights video: SCORE 27-13
Philadelphia Eagles vs SF 49ers highlights video: Looking for the highlights of SF 49ers vs Eagles 12/20/2009? Watch the Eagles vs 49ers highlights video as Philadelphia clinched anotherHas science fiction gone future-blind?
"The predictions and ideas Doctorow is discussing are no news [...] I can’t imagine that they are too unfamiliar to anyone working in the publishing industry - especially that of sf, which has alBacking Up *Things*
David Louis Edelman on the Digitisation of Objects - a column at Futurismic.Interzone’s 25th anniversary
"One of the true pillars of the British SF&F community is about to celebrate the big quarter of a century marker: yes, folks, believe it or not, Interzone turns twenty five with the next issuSpace Weapons
Designing yourself a space ship? Better kit it out with some practical weaponry, then - this page discusses some of the potential tools of combat for the budding space pirate. Link via Metafilter.New Greg Egan novel
"Greg Egan has sold a new science fiction novel, Incandescence, to Gollancz. The book will be published in May 2008." That's damn fine news from where I'm sitting.Sci-Fi Ascendant
"Chinese science fiction was born in the years just after the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, when the government saw the genre as a tool for promoting science." Seed maTwenty Years Ago the Classics Were Different
"...looking back with twenty years of hindsight I’m not sure how many science fiction books I would consider classic." Via SF Signal.[conheaven.com]
"conheaven.com is an exciting new service oriented entirely towards congoers of all types." Social networking for genre geeks. w00t! Link via Andrew Wheeler.New Marketing 101 for Science Fiction Publications and Writers, Session 2
"Success in this new era demands wholehearted participation. It requires an ability to think of your publication (or yourself) as a public persona. It means that you have to be committed, engagedSubdee, the Subdimensional World
Rudy Rucker brainstorming in public - how have I managed to avoid reading the guy's novels for so long? A situation that must be amended!Meme Therapy - On The Grid
"SF Signal had the opportunity to turn the meme-tables on the good folks at Meme Therapy, putting them under the microscope like they've done to so many others..."
