March 27, 2009 – Is it time to retire the term "nerd"? It's had a good run, sure, but does anyone else feel it's not what it used to be?
Walter Scott's review of Frankenstein gives a nice sense of the emerging consciousness of something like science fiction as a particular class of storytelling.
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ETA: wow, I just got bored while re-reading my own comment.
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ETA: wow, I just got bored while re-reading my own comment.
Tell it to John Donne. Also: yay, women in computer science.
Thanks Swenson! I must have been only seven or eight the first time I played Zork and I never stopped hoping I would find ancient tunnel system under my neighborhood.
I wrote an essay about some of my gaming inspirations that just posted at the Mulholland Books blog: [www.mulhollandbooks.com]
- Austin
I wrote an essay about some of my gaming inspirations that just posted at the Mulholland Books blog: [www.mulhollandbooks.com]
- Austin
When I was writing Soon I Will Be Invincible I mostly had Jonathan Lethem's book Fortress of Solitude in mind - I'm always surprised people don't remember that book more.
I have another superhero book forthcoming and it's quite different - I didn't want to come back to that genre unless I felt I had something genuinely new to say there. I think it's going to be cool.
I have another superhero book forthcoming and it's quite different - I didn't want to come back to that genre unless I felt I had something genuinely new to say there. I think it's going to be cool.
Does anyone else feel like they're listening to the System Shock soundtrack?
@Athensjail: Supposedly he and Denzel Washington have *competing* Hannibal projects.
Carthago Delenda Est!
All I want from Vin Diesel is the Hannibal Barca biopic he's working on.
This is clearly an artist who hated drawing feet.
@bluehinter: Trilogy of Failure, I like that! We should issue a boxed set.
I haven't thought about that the Change War in forever! Is it me or is Leiber kind of a forgotten man of SF/F literature? Because of his sexual politics, maybe? I suppose Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road was a tribute.
@cletar: I so much wish I could talk about what's going on with the Invincible movie. It's definitely being worked on. #bookvortex
I loved the "Giant Headset" devices. I never tried the arcade version (Dactyl Nightmare?) but on the PC games I tried (System Shock, Flight Unlimited), they produced a vivid illusion of being in a space, even on pretty low resolution display. It's too bad they never found a commercial niche - too expensive, not enough software support. Someday they'll come back!
@Goodnightbabytron: Now that you raise this, I think you're right - this may deserve follow-up posts. Also t-shirts.
To those who covet: my sister does these on a retail basis, smaller scale - hemoglobin, insulin, enzymes of all sorts. Custom work. She can hook you up.
@Annalee Newitz: I can't even look at that stuff. Hell I couldn't even watch Adaptation.
@Grey_Area: Wait, there I am. My first thought was of Joe-Jim from Orphans of the Sky.
How do you guys watch these early?
a) Beak
b) Spiral
c) Emma Frost (let's face it)
b) Spiral
c) Emma Frost (let's face it)
@bluewyvern: I'm seeing Warren on Friday and will bug him about it. Someone needs to make a sequel - I bet EA owns the rights from when it bought Origin.
