Bye Vernor
Vernor Vinge died yesterday, 2024-03-20. I know others had wrote about a Singularity-like event happening, since the early days of SF — either psychic, robot brains, benevolent alien uplifts, biological/viral, etc. But Vinge’s Omni...
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The Old Iron Dream
Noted radical activist for The Old Iron Dream, Jerry Pournelle, has died. He was a pioneer of word processing in fiction. Rather fittingly, his final blog entry from last Thursday suggested a “Service Guarantees...
Heavily Weathered
Bruce Sterling has a way of being so right, he throws out asides in his books that for many writers would be centerpieces. In the spirit of the times, I’ve been re-reading “Heavy Weather”,...
Hardcore, You Know the Score
Just read Greg Egan’s “The Clockwork Rocket” – most audacious hard SF book in years. Alt universe where, as far as I can tell, the space-time metric has been rejigged into some kind of...
It Was Nineteen and a Bit Years Ago Today…
In the process of packing I found an old teeshirt that’s been at the bottom of a drawer for a *very* long time. I think I used to have around 20 of these. For...
Hot Off the Presses
So, spurred on by the revelations that ex-Hitler Speech connoisseur Tom Costello from my old college TCD has got himself a new search engine that apparently returns more targetted gay porn results than Google,...