Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum's True Names, a story of near-Omega Point intelligences fighting over the computation left in the dying universe. It is also the story of the Strategies and Filters they invent to deal with each other.

ROCKSOME!

Finally, a new Culture novel on the horizon.

This is listed on Amazon with the ISBN 1841494178 for the hardback and 1841494186 for the export paperback, with a publication date of 1st February 2008.

As TMH mentioned on the Garbadale tour it has a number of possibly titles: Matter, The Expeditionary, and The Integrity of Objects. I thought the ( Read more... )

... I sucked in a breath. Two years, we'd thought we were safe. Two years after the last uploaded science fiction writer had bit the biscuit - at least that we knew of. And now the arctic bases, the fishing fleets, the California coast would never evacuate in time. In their corner of cyberspace, on whatever illicit server hosted their virtual ( Read more... )

Apparently, someone did a transcript of the fansub of *deepbreath* Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex: Solid State Society. It has since been taken down in a crushing demonstration of the ephemeralness of information found on the not-yet-infinite net. Fortunately, Google's caching is more than equal to the taskWhen I grow up, I want to be the ( Read more... )

Asimov totally ripped off Van Vogt, dawg. Word.

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*puts on James Nicoll fictionsuit*

Assume Aubrey de Grey succeeds and we put together a codex of techniques that collectively eliminate all the negative effects of aging1.

1. Let us even assume it's so cheap that just about everyone can get it. Completely ignoring how unlikely ( Read more... )

Not quite ready to review Elizabeth Bear's Carnival yet (that's going to require at least a third reading) but I will say this - have I said this before - I'm not sure I've seen any other writer who so consistently and overtly gets better from one book to the next ( Read more... )

I think a fun story could be had by all, starring rival teams of hackers on the Republican and Democratic sides as they attempt to sway the election their way. Unexpectedly, the Green-Rainbow Party wins due to rogue elements.

No?

Alright then, how 'bout a little something from last month, reposted from ... elsewhere:

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Stargate SG-1's back! Why does no one tell me these things?

Finished Sunday: Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton

One word impression: Bold.

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Finished Yesterday: The Cassini Division by Ken Macleod (after three years of searching - I reject Amazon in Jesus name - I finally found it. YES!)

One-word impression: wickedlyfunnyplussupremelyfuckingbadass

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Finished Yesterday: The ( Read more... )