Can't Look Back

Source: Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish

It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future. What we were prior to our latest batch of technology is, in a way, unknowable. It would be harder to accurately imagine what New York City was like the day be ...
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Daily Dose for Sat, May 26: Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse

Source: Powell's Books

Enter your email address below and receive a new Daily Dose in your inbox each morning. Click here to read about Powells.com's privacy policy. Lisa's Comments "Our librarian read portions of Mirror, Mirror to our ...
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Daily Dose for Fri, May 25: The Peculiars

Source: Powell's Books

Enter your email address below and receive a new Daily Dose in your inbox each morning. Click here to read about Powells.com's privacy policy. Candace's Comments "Set in a steampunk 1800's, Lena Mattacascar' ...
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[GUEST POST] Zack Parsons Talks With Authors About Writing and Music

Source: SF Signal

When I set out to write my genre-spanning debut novel, Liminal States, I wanted to music to shape the outcome of my creative process. Ending with a free downloadable companion soundtrack from my friend, Conelrad, was something I hoped would excit ...
Full article at: SF Signal  More like this  2 days ago, 12:29am CDT

Gaming's most famous (or infamous) franchise hand-offs

Source: Games Radar

If Max Payne 3 taught us anything, it's that there will always be work for alcoholic nihilists and a developer switch can be the shot in the arm a franchise needs to get back on its feet or stay at the top of its game. T ...
Full article at: Games Radar  More like this  2 days ago, 5:09pm CDT

Cyberpunk dress code, circa 1990

Source: Boing Boing

A 20-year-old photo spread from pioneering cyberculture zine Mondo 2000 asks the musical question: "R U a cyberpunk?" Bruce Sterling, who was, in fact, a cyberpunk, answers: "Since 20 years have passed, contemporary people will fail ...
Full article at: Boing Boing  More like this  2 days ago, 1:04pm CDT

Are You a True Cyberpunk? Consult This 90s Guide to Find Out [Past Perfect]

Source: Gizmodo

The 90s! The dawn of a hybrid of pop/counter-cultural archetype: the Cyberpunk. Many strived to include themselves in the ranks of these rebels. If only they'd had this graphical rubric guiding them. The guide comes from the pages of Mondo 200 ...
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In Which Charles Stross Beats Science Fiction With A Big Shitty Stick

Source: Warrenellis.com

…those people who are doing the "big visionary ideas about the future" SF are mostly doing so in a vacuum of critical appreciation. Greg Egan’s wonderful clockwork constructions out of the raw stuff of quant ...
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INTERVIEW: Some Thoughts on Post-Colonialism and Politics in SF with Djibril al-Ayad, Editor of “The Future Fire” Magazine

Source: SF Signal

Djibril al-Ayad is general editor of The Future Fire, an online magazine of social-political speculative fiction. In the past, TFF published themed issues on Feminist SF and Queer SF, and two guest-edited, themed anthologies are currently in dev ...
Full article at: SF Signal  More like this  3 days ago, 2:22pm CDT