Category Archives: science fiction
Books I’ve Been Reading
Not including all the Harry Potter fanfiction. Quick reviews, because I have nothing particularly long and insightful to say about most of them. I’m just looking around my desk (and inside the Stanza iPhone app) and trying to remember what … Continue reading
Filed under books, feminism, science fiction
Quote of the Week: Death is Lighter than a Feather…
“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.” –an “old Bene Gesserit saying” (Frank Herbert). Yes, I’m mixing and matching mythologies. Also, … Continue reading
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Random Announcements
So exams are over, although my work at the institute is not, and I’m finally doing something interesting with Google Wave: Playing RPGs. Specifically, Eclipse Phase, which is a CC-licensed RPG that deals with transhumanist themes: Eclipse Phase is a pen … Continue reading
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Journalistic Integrity
This is the story that I wrote for the Shaastra Online Science Fiction Writing contest this year in the Short Sketch category. It got picked first by Cory Doctorow . It’s not very,er, scientific, as you might notice. But that’s … Continue reading
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash is a novel about hackers. This is fairly obvious, although like in many dramatizations these hackers are not particularly realistic-one is a champion swordsman, which is hard enough to take, and another is a hot chick, which we … Continue reading
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Firefly
..is totally, completely, mind-blowingly awesome. All the characters are awesome, the setting is awesome, the theme song is awesome(and I didn’t even know I liked that kind of music!),the humour is awesome-standard Joss Whedon humour, just like in Buffy, but … Continue reading
Filed under nerdy, pop culture, science fiction
I can’t NOT link to this:
Sex in Science Fiction: Spring Mating Season on i09. Read and enjoy. Seriously, go there, now. They have the most embarrassing alien sex scenes of all time,Spring Mating Season in Space, and Human-Alien Love Children. Also, a never-anthologized, sorta, kinda … Continue reading
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Sexual Dystopia
There’s an interesting if not very useful (I think, for the purposes I assume he’s doing it for) post by Eliezer up at Overcoming Bias. It would make a reasonably interesting meme, I suppose. The idea is this: you look … Continue reading
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Can someone explain what this means?
No, seriously….I was told this is a GOOD song,too. No clouds in my stones Let it rain, I hydroplane in the bank Coming down with the Dow Jones When the clouds come we gone, we Rocafella We fly higher than … Continue reading
Filed under everything else, libertarianism, ranting, science fiction
Even MORE Science Fiction News!
Well, the topics have finally been “finalized”, and sent for publishing. Should be up within a day now. I’m not sure whether there any issues with me mirroring them on this blog, but I think I should hold off at … Continue reading
Filed under science fiction, SF Writing
