Monthly Archive:: November 2007

Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End – Free online

I know I must have read one of his books at one time but I just cannot remember which one. In any case Rainbows End seems like an intriguing read. In any case you can read his book for free if you like at http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html. You can buy it as well if you are interested. [&hellip

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A reality stranger than fiction for cyberpunk prophet

Interesting article about William Gibson over at canberra. Talks about how a single event in history can cause the world to switch course. Enoc

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A Love of Lists

I love lists. Amazon lists, year-end lists, summer reading lists, winter reading lists, best-seller lists. I love them all. There’s so much good fiction out that it’s impossible to be aware of it all. So lists really help. We should start a list here! But until we do, SFSignal does a great job linking to [&hellip

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Steampunk Motorcycles

Wow this is a pretty amazing collection of steampunk motorcycles… I have always wanted a Trike myself. Enoc

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Cyberpunk Poetry?

I guess it makes sense and someone has had to do this at some point… Check out this article over at the Poetry Foundation.. Enoch

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New Book – The Electric Church by Jeff Somers

Caught this review at blogcritics.org for a new book by Jeff Somers – The Electric Church. They are saying “The Electric Church, the latest book from Jeff Somers, is a gritty, cyberpunk masterpiece in the tradition of Snowcrash and Neuromancer.” Sounds good to me – ordered it at Amazon and I will give you a [&hellip

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Steampunk Interview

One of my favorite blogs is Gizmodo. They have an excellent interview with Rich Nagy who is the “top creator of custom Steampunk objects” around today. Check it out

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After the Silicon Rush

So PopMatters has an article on the post-cyberpunk movement.  Um, I guess I should actually read these things before I go and post ’em here, but it’s like five pages long and I’ll read it over lunch and get back to you. But I did see reference to lots of authors, usual suspects&#

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William Gibson at Rolling Stone

For their 40th anniversary issue(s), Rolling Stone interviewed a bunch of famous folks. Yap, Eddie Vedder was one of them! Oh, whoops, wrong blog … I mean William Gibson!

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More Shadowrun Stories

I am did a little google search for shadowrun stories and I came up with this page that looks promising… The author “shapcano” also mentions some other shadowrun fiction that he thought was excellent on Winterhawk’s Virtual Magespace and DeckerM’s Shadowrun Page. I am going to book the sites on my iPhone and check them [&hellip

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