Tags · science fiction

• 23-Oct-2024
  Dune and Colonialism I’ve been doing maintenance. I’ve finished porting over all the RSS Feeds from one reader (Tiny Tiny RSS) to a new one (FreshRSS) and doing that has allowed me to revisit a lot of old feeds, friends and acquaintances who have died (Heather Armstrong and Jennifer Simpson, notably and shockingly, both died too young and...

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• 31-Dec-2023
  Call a Rabbit a Smeerp If you are looking for what the heck “Call a Rabbit a Smeerp” means, you’re looking for it from the Turkey City Lexicon. Available on sfwa dot org and on critters dot org. I was watching the latest Zack Snyder movie on Netflix and “Call a Rabbit a Smeerp” kept returning to my mind.

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• 07-Dec-2023
  Virtual Light by William Gibson read by Peter Weller One of my favorite books and favorite audio books was the reading of an abridged Virtual Light by Peter Weller. I empathized with both Chevette Washington and Berry Rydell as young people trying to figure their lives out. And that future world was so vivid. From the 1990s a world with connected computers and multiuser...

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• 15-Nov-2023
  Torment Nexus, oi This speech by Charlie Stross matches the painful assessments I’ve slowly come to in my decades reading SF and watching the tech boom. I didn’t *want* to go to a cyberpunk dystopia so much as thought it was inevitable we would end up there. But no destination is inevitable. Human beings can steer. We can...

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• 15-Apr-2019

  
  Offworlders sometimes wear fur spacesuits. Ask Durand Durand. Colored with @procreate

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• 05-Apr-2019

  
  Your dystopia has been cancelled! Sketchnotes Page 1 Sketchnotes Page 2

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• 24-Mar-2019

  
  Serene & Green ‪Latest play with Procreate. A serene green alien I first drew decades ago. Still learning.‬

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• 24-Nov-2018

  
  Wherein I photobomb Cixin Liu That’s me in the back! From UCSD Clarke Center: In case you missed our sold-out evening with science fiction masters Cixin Liu and John Scalzi, you can now see the documentary video of the interview with Clarke Center Director Sheldon Brown at our Youtube channel:

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• 17-Jan-2015

  
  Father’s Day, 2014. I posted this to Facebook and not here last year. But it’s worth reposting. Originally from June 15, 2014. i posted it with this photo. This week I got to see 2001: a space odyssey on a big screen for a third time. I got to see Kier Dullea in person talk about having worked...

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• 16-Jan-2007
  Peter Nicholls’ Definition Of Science Fiction As Quoted By Bruce Sterling It occurs 45 minutes into the Long Now mp3 of the event “The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole;” it makes me laugh. Why would Science Fiction stoop to this? Why are they deploying this grand mathematical notion as like, a source of “plot coupons” Well I’ll explain this to you, and if you...

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