Tag Archives: sciencefiction

Skeptical take on Singularity

Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 by author-unknown

Charlie Stross, who has written a lot of science fiction about the Singularity (the moment at which the human race has a break with history as a consequence of tying our intelligence and consciousness to machines). Now he’s written an essay called “Thr… Continue reading →

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Nested “Inception” chair sculpture

Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2011 by author-unknown

Vivian Chiu’s “Inception” chair is a series of nested chair-like objects, inspired by the nested realities in the eponymous film:

Taking the chair archetype and placing within it chairs that are progressively smaller. Each chair has hand cut groove… Continue reading →

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Neal Stephenson’s gold farming thriller, REAMDE

Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 by author-unknown

HarperCollins have
announced the next Neal Stephenson novel, REAMDE, a thriller about gold farming. I sat down with Neal last year when I was touring with my own gold farming book, For the Win, and we marvelled together at the awesome weirdness, fraud… Continue reading →

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Delightful science fiction story in review of $6800 speaker cable

Posted on Saturday, November 27, 2010 by author-unknown

Nestled amongst the many funny and delightful reviews for the AudioQuest K2 terminated speaker cable, an 8-foot audio cable that sells for $6,800.00 (a $1,650.00 savings!) is this wonderful short science fiction story by Whisper, an Amazon customer i… Continue reading →

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Salon Futura

Posted on Friday, September 3, 2010 by Beanbag

(via Delicious/tsangal)

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Terry Bisson/Rudy Rucker illustrated picture book

Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by author-unknown

How cool is this: Rudy Rucker painted a series of illustrations for Terry “Bears Discover Fire” Bisson’s series of “Billy” short stories, and they’ve released the resulting ebook as a free download:

In our never-ceasing quest to shock and enlighten … Continue reading →

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