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Interview with Walter Jon Williams
By mcd on July 17th, 2008 at 01:46pm ()Via Night Shade Books: Concept Sci-fi has an interview with Walter Jon Williams up. On cyberpunk, he said:
I’d like to suggest that there were a few key concepts to cyberpunk: the idea that the future would be filled with a tangle of subcultures rather than a single monoculture; the notion that subcultures would adapt technology for their own purposes; that the subcultures would be webbed together by electronic media; and that the future would be saturated by mass media and by messages generated by large corporate entities acting exclusively and without conscience for their own profit and power.
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The Dark Lady
By mcd on May 29th, 2008 at 02:42pm ()Via a mailing list: the NJJN reports on a new Shakespearean authorship theory: the Dark Lady herself did it!
[John Hudson] gradually devised the latest approach to Shakespearean authorship, the Amelia Bassano Theory — recently recognized by the Shakespearean Authorship Trust as one of the top eight authorship theories.
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Reading the Tab so you don't have to
By mcd on May 05th, 2008 at 11:58pm ()Michael Burstein kindly provides endorsements and information about tomorrow’s election in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Dead Woman Walking
By mcd on May 04th, 2008 at 10:58pm ()Besides the vampires, I loved the use of obscure neurological conditions (such as the titular one) in Peter Watt’s Blindsight. One that stuck with me especially was Cotard’s syndrome, in which one of the female characters believes that she is, in fact, dead. Understandably, she has a hard time convincing the other characters of this fact since, aside from her change in affect, she is very much alive.
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Tuckerize me!
By mcd on April 10th, 2008 at 12:03pm ()Via UniversalHub: Michael Burstein is having a contest for people who preorder his new short story collection. Winners will be Tuckerized at a later date.
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Arthur C. Clarke
By mcd on March 19th, 2008 at 11:12pm ()Arthur C. Clarke passed away earlier today at 90. See ArthurCClarke.net for links to commentary and more.
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Steven Brust's Fanfic
By mcd on February 22nd, 2008 at 12:01pm ()Via FireflyFans.net: Steven Brust has braved the lawyers to post his free Firefly novel, My Own Kind of Freedom, online. You can find some details in his livejournal or group blog, and a positive review at io9.
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