Ok so I am not even done with River of Gods and I see this great review of Charles Stross’s new book Halting State and it really grabbed me. I am a big player of World Of Warcraft
and have run a number of story lines through my head revolving around Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games… Read the review and let me know what you think…
Monthly Archives: November 2007
NaNoWriMo?
Yeah, I thought it was the Japanese cell phone format or something, but no! It’s National Novel Writing Month! Aww geez, I’m like four days late, which means I’ve got to pump out about 2,000 words per day. The gist is to write a 175-page, 50,000 word novel in November! C’mon you can do it too! Riiiiiight. Closer to 3,000 words a day to make up for Thanksgiving break, vacation travel and what not. Ug!
Shadowrun fiction online…
I just realized that is has been over a year since any shadowrun novels have come out and it appears that we may have seen the last of them as a series (until some kind soul resurrects them I suppose). I did find a story by Steven Warnock online that might be enjoyable for a few of you… His writing is not as polished as the those in the series but still it gives you a feel for what shadowrun is.. and I appreciate the effort.. Ling and I have discussed a shadowrun short story ourselves but we cannot get past the planning stage…
Enoch
Bruce Stirling Interview
Another one of the founding father’s of cyberpunk is the prolific writer Bruce Sterling. This is an interview from Locus once again. Interestingly in the picture on the left he is holding his mac laptop. That gives him some additional plus points in my book.
Walter Jon Williams Interview
The quote at the top of the home page is from pioneer cyberpunk writer Walter Jon Williams. There is an short interesting interview of him at Locus Magazine’s website which just happens to be Ling’s old stomping grounds ( I think he worked their for a couple of months as a gopher). Hardwired his 1986 novel is considered one of the first in the cyberpunk genre and is a good read.
Ian McDonald Interview
An interesting podcast interview of Ian McDonald over at small WORLD podcast. Presently digesting his book River of Gods which I will have to say is quite well done. Once that task is complete I will shift over to his new book Brasyl
which looks to be quite good as well. Of course I will publish my review of River of Gods
before I start the new book.
Rudy Rucker – Get His Book Free
I am not sure I would consider Rudy Rucker a cyber punk novelist but I have truly enjoyed his books for both their simplicity in writing as well as their complexity in thought. It seem that Rudy is making his new book Postsingular available for free via PDF… If you are into aliens, multi-dimensional travel and the like you should seriously check Rudy’s books out.
Enoch
Steampunk Laptop
Oh man if they only made one that was mac…. see it here…