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Science fiction writer Rudy "Postsingular" Rucker has just posted issue #5 of his speculative fiction webzine FLURB, which is always full of bizarro delights. In this issue, Terry Bisson writes about a superhero called Captain Ordinary who teleports around the world via hidden portals in Starbucks outlets, triggered if you order the right kind of soy latte. John Shirley gives us a tasty excerpt from his dark new cyberpunk novel Black Glass Samples, and Nathaniel Hellerstein takes on the persona of the entire Web to humbly request that people stop accusing it of trying to end the world. Plus, there's a lot more, including a new story from Rucker and plenty of Rucker's art too. [FLURB]
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New Issue of Rudy Rucker's FLURB Hits the Interwebs
11:20 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Annalee Newitz
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I just read Cathedrals by Alex Hardinson. Very nice.
People! READ the Bisson story NOW. Many giggles.
Is the comment system is doing that thing again, not showing all of them?)
I love the name FLURB. It's an "of course"!
Comments sometimes appear more slowly than others. Quirk of our software system.
Captain Ordinary kind of reminded me of a Superheroes skit on Whose Line Is It Anyway.
"Thank God you're here, uh...Quantum Gal!"
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