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... Online HERE . From the Fast Forward 2 anthology, "True Names" novella by Benjamin Rosenbaum and CoryDoctorow. "There were only a finite number of computational cycles left in all of the universe that was timelike to Beebe. Every one of them, every single step in the dance of all those particles, was Beebe in potentia—could be a thought, a dream, a joy of Beebeself." Available for...
More about present and near future sci-fi with this interview of CoryDoctorow in The Guardian. It practically addresses “why he’s not interested in predicting the future using science fiction, but influencing it“. Doctorow describes himself as a “presentist”, that is to say someone who writes metaphorically about the present (something every sci-fi writer do as [...]
Here’s the trailer for “Stingray Sam”, the new musical space western written and directed by Cory McAbee, with music by American Astronaut and narrated by David Hyde Pierce. Stingray Sam is premiering at the Sundance Film Festival 2009. A dangerous mission reunites STINGRAY SAM with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts [...] Related posts: - Food Court Musical,...
Apparently, they're scratching their heads in the Transition Team: what exactly do we do with ten million e-mail registrants to barackobama.com? While the current talk is all about rights and privacy and the correct use of citizens' information, perhaps the question should be reversed. What will those ten million do with Barack Obama?
Over at Boing Boing, Cory has posted his fiction picks today. A fair number of them are available as e-books, so if you don’t mind the DRM you might want to go and see what he is suggesting. I added Charles Stross’s Halting State and Saturn’s Children and Neal Stephenson’s Interface to my [...]
Fox’s Deadly Naked Christmas Island III Santa Claus At San Quentin CoryDoctorow’s Open Source Stocking , a discussion of how wrapping presents is a faulty concept in this new age of information Jack Van Impe Presents: The Final Christmas? , originally recorded in 1988 An Old Fashioned Staten Island Christmas starring Christina Aguilera, Buster Poindexter, Alyssa Milano and The Wu Tang...
I’ve been noodling around the house playing with my TomTom that’s an early Christmas gift from Emily, as well as the Acer Aspire One that I snagged via Amazon. As I’ve been doing that, some interesting Fast Forward 2 nods were forwarded to me by Lou Anders: First up is a nice nod from CoryDoctorow at [...]
CoryDoctorow and Ben Rosenbaum have co-written a novella for inclusion in the Fast Forward 2 SF anthology. This novella, called True Names, has now been released independently as a freely downloadable Creative Commons licensed work. It’s a fantastic piece of speculative fiction, revolving around the struggles of sentient programs running on galaxy-devouring self-replicating nanomachine-computronium....
Interviews & Profiles: @SciFi Wire: Jeffrey A. Carver ( Sunborn ) and Benjamin Parzybok ( Couch ). @ Fantasy Magazine : Tobias Buckell ( Sly Mongoose ) Author Gail Z. Martin podcast-interviews Faith Hunter ( The Rogue Mage series). Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon ]: @The Internet Archive: " True Names " by Benjamin Rosenbaum and CoryDoctorow, a sample from the current anthology...
... science fiction reader son (huge Neal Stephenson fan) sent me a note about a BoingBoing post by CoryDoctorow. I think CD has that homeschooling bug too if he’s studying John Holt’s writings. (Bugs possibly being the mighty "leaderless ant colonies" if you read Helen Hegener’s post .) How Children Learn: classic of human, kid-centered learning by CoryDoctorow Most resonant...
Yesterday during a minor scheduling snafu with an IT Conversations interview Scott Lemon remarked that we all ought to just use Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and forget about it. CoryDoctorow had a book with a title evocative of...
... the first away as a free ebook, hook the reader and they’ll buy the rest of the series in print. CoryDoctorow takes this to the extreme by simultaneously giving away the ebook version of all new books he writes. If the reader enjoys his novel he encourages them to buy a print copy and give it to a local school, library or friend. If you want to charge for your ebook (i.e. this is...
CoryDoctorow links to this interesting 1936 article from Modern Mechanix . Interesting to think that it 1936, we thought we could store in the entire Library of Congress in this little box: and today, a server farm, such as the one pictured below stores only a small fraction of our collective intelligence. Flickr photo by MysteryBee Canned Libraries: the 1936 version of "universal access...
