In her Armadillocon toastmaster speech, Nancy Kress said Google is trying to strike a hush-hush deal to publish SFWA members. Not their books, but the members themselves. They'll use replicator invented by Bruce Sterling, that prints 3-dimensional shapes ( Read more... )

As someone who occasionally makes an attempt to write science fiction, I always admire a good geeky metaphor -- the kind that makes both scientific and literary sense. I found a good example of this in an otherwise mediocre book, "Synners" by Pat Cadigan. (Its geek quotient is not very high -- it draws on a very simple mathematical concept, but ( Read more... )