Have read Daniel Suarez' Freedom, sequel to Daemon. It's my first Kindle (for PC!) purchase, my first read of the year and the second book in a (finished) duology and it is glorious! If you like real life technologies being used in scifi ways and incredibly plausible apocalpyses instigated by a perfect storm of Bond-villain-Batman pre-planning, you ( Read more... )

Whachuthink now, __marcelo? :D

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There are some neat ideas thrown around here. Execution was off, partially due to lack of time, partially due to Whedon's weak points overlapping. Still, very neat ideas.

Looking at the wondrous wealth of knowledge I can access just by punching random shit into a Google search bar, it just seems like science was so much more heroic and cool back in the day than it is now. Consider the following:

Project Manhigh: Hey kids, it's 1957 and you want to know what cosmic rays do to folks above the safety of the ozone ( Read more... )

Gragg felt the tingling of the Third Eye on his stomach and back. The Third Eye was another of the miracles that Sobol had bestowed upon him. It was a form-fitting conductive shirt worn next to the skin-but it wasn't a garment. It was a haptic device that helped him use his body's largest organ-his skin-as another, all-seeing eye. An eye that never ( Read more... )

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