Category Archives: Books, Stories, etc

———————- 12/16 -z: Slashdot stole my story again ———————- Watching this version of the great books on SciFi is kinda sad. It’s like meeting a good old sentimental childhood friend and finding out that he’s become a male prostitute junky. … Continue reading →

“Shoot out your super high speed third attention to a star, erase stickiness and other wonders are yours if you simply practice the tenants in this book by Hiroyuki Nishigaki, who also wrote the stirring sequel to this book, “Rejuvenation … Continue reading →

This book is one of the best I’ve read all year. It caught my attention when I read a write up in the newspaper about another novellist writing a sequel called “The Godfather Returns”. I’m not sure I want to … Continue reading →

After reading Cryptonomicon (Which could make a great movie/TV series if they didn’t screw it up, which they would) and loving it, I bought all three of The Baroque Cycle. (Still need to start #3, but 1&2 were great). BoingBoing … Continue reading →

Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club, Choke, and some other excellent books. A while ago I heard the rumor of a story that he’d written that was so disturbing it was making people physically ill. Of course I … Continue reading →

A work of fiction. A Semantic Web scenario. A short feature from a business magazine published in 2009 It’s hard to believe Google – which is now the world’s largest single online marketplace – came on the scene only a … Continue reading →

“The intent of detailing and naming these insidious tactics is so that the reader may AVOID USING THEM, to quickly recognize if someone else is using them, and for fun. There is much humor in the way people (consciously or … Continue reading →

In this outrageous parody of a survival guide, Saturday Night Live staff writer Brooks prepares humanity for its eventual battle with zombies. One would expect the son of Mel Brooks to have a genetic predisposition to humor, and indeed, he … Continue reading →

Best Novel (A novel has more than 40,000 words.) Robert Charles Wilson, Blind Lake (Tor) Robert J. Sawyer, Humans (Tor) Dan Simmons, Ilium (Eos) Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls (Eos) Charles Stross, Singularity Sky (Ace) Best Novella (A novella … Continue reading →

The author of “Cryptonomicon” and the “Baroque Cycle” talks about the brighter side of Puritanism, the feud between Newton and Leibniz, and the literary world’s grudge against science fiction. Salon Interview