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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.
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...
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...
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!
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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:
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...
09-Dec-2006
Science Fiction Definition via Bruce Sterling
In 2004, Bruce Sterling spoke at the Long Now foundation on the topic: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole. One sequence jumped out of me when listening to the audio because of the very funny at once insightful and dismissive definition of Science Fiction he cites. Before this part he’s talking about the...
29-Jun-2005
Cyberpunk Guy, 1988
When I was a sophomore in high school I had a friend named Jason Erwin. He was an oddball, computer nerd, and geek. I distinctly remember being driven to see The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai with him. He was cool. I don’t remember what the debt was, but in return for some debt from him I got a copy of the book Neuromancer, by William Gibson. This would’ve...
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