Wherein the coiner of the term “weblog” espouses on some guidelines for good blogs. Wait a minute, that’s just a link to the news about the story in Wired, here’s the real list!
Author Archives: Ling
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 various SF lists as demonstrated.
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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….
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!
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!
Living to 1,000
The Washington Post reports on a new book by Aubrey de Grey that posits that some folks alive today may well live for 1,000 years. Well, actually, they report on his claims and the contest held to debunk his theories of treating aging as a disease — and curing it. De Grey’s book has indeed just been published. And, no scientist won the contest, leaving it all rather amibiguous.
And yeah, Aubrey just looks soooo cyberpunk!
Steampunk Magazine
Um, wow, I blew out this whole comment! Oh well, google this!!!
The Nobel Prize for Literature
Wow! Just … wow! Doris Lessing just won the Nobel! As usual, SFSignal has a good collection of quotes from around the web on this SciFi Coup! Salon has a quick write-up as well, noting that 1982 Nobel-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez was somewhat “fantasy” with his “magic realism.”
Top 50 Distopian Movies
From SFSignal, a post on the best distopian movies, and ouch, I haven’t seen many of them!
Richard K. Morgan
An interview with said titled second wave cyberpunk author. Or was he first wave? At work on lunchtime right now so don’t have resources to check that out, or read this, but I will read this, cause it’s an interview with a sci-fi author! And he mentions nearly all my favorites at one point!