On September 15, 2010, William Gibson gave a reading from his new novel "Zero History" at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Austin. The reading was followed by Q&A and a signing. I attended a similar reading and signing when he was in Austin in 2008, promoting his earlier novel "Spook Country". This year I could clearly see what some critic meant by ( Read more... )

I have almost finished the article on post-cyberpunk. All that remains is to find Lithuanian equivalents of some English technical-related terms. Such as HDTV, bucky tube, or "to sequence a genome". Typically what I do is I ask my friends, the co-publishers of the fanzine, who live in Lithuania. They often have suggestions. If nobody knows the ( Read more... )

Yesterday I made some progress on the article I'm writing for the Lithuanian fanzine Dorado Raganos. The article will be based on a discussion panel at last year's ArmadilloCon (a science fiction convention in Austin, TX), called "Cyberpunk after 9/11". An English version (written by me as well) can be found here ( Read more... )