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    As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth

    Psychedelic Plants Lead to Alien Mind-Melding in a Small Town

    A Lethal Cash Injection, In A Prison-Industry-Dominated World

    Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration

    Charles Stross Says You Can No Longer Write Near-Future Science Fiction

    Why is Science Fiction Going Back to the Near Future?
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/24/09

    In reply to As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth
    [quote]The first portion of Makers reads very much like a manifesto. [/quote]

    This is what keeps me from reading Doctorow. His books always sound like screeds for his... fanciful... politics.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11/23/09

    In reply to As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth
    want want! since i read little brother i've been absolutely obsessed with DIY projects, even if it's taking a little bit longer to get some stuff started myself. (i've been hacking consoles and the like.) but i've asked for a soldering kit for hanukkah, and will probably starte making some simple robots.
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    Image of Hotscot Hotscot
    11/23/09

    In reply to As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth
    Anyone read a good time travel novel in the past year or so?
    You wouldn't think there would be much newness that could be done with the topic but I love those type of stories and the twists involved.
    I think the last one I read was "Cowl" by Neal Asher.
    I recommend it highly.

    I also enjoy HARD science fiction.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/23/09

    @Hotscot: "The Accidental Time Machine." Haldeman is always a good bet. Lately, he seems to be trying to recreate Heinlein's juveniles but that's not a bad thing.
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    Image of Hotscot Hotscot
    11/23/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Thanks Doc. Added to my Christmas reading list.
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    Image of Ian Fiebig Ian Fiebig
    11/23/09

    In reply to As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth
    About half way through and really enjoying it. Favorite line so far...

    "The typical ROI for a Kodacell unit in the old days was about four percent. If you put a hundred dollars in, you'd get a hundred and four dollars out, and it would take about a year to realize. Of course, in the old days, they wouldn't have touched a new business unless they could put a hundred million in and get a hundred and four million out. Four million bucks is four million bucks.

    "But here, the company put fifty thousand into these dolls and three months later, they took seventy thousand out, after paying our salaries and bonuses. That's a forty percent ROI. Seventy thousand bucks isn't four million bucks, but forty percent is forty percent."

    Well more then a line I guess.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    11/24/09

    @Ian Fiebig: Wow, Gene Wolfe had better watch his back if Cory's got prose chops like that.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/26/09

    In reply to Psychedelic Plants Lead to Alien Mind-Melding in a Small Town
    I love that there's a comic award called the Ignatz.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    08/26/09

    In reply to Psychedelic Plants Lead to Alien Mind-Melding in a Small Town
    I am sure that this is awesome, but speaking of Finder, Finder is fucking AWESOME.
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    Image of Illogic Illogic
    08/26/09

    In reply to Psychedelic Plants Lead to Alien Mind-Melding in a Small Town
    Awesome comic. Though I'd advice against reading it all in one go. I tried that once and my brain started melting.
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    Image of eviladrian eviladrian
    05/20/09

    In reply to A Lethal Cash Injection, In A Prison-Industry-Dominated World
    Carl Marks? Really?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/20/09

    @eviladrian: Yeah, what a knee-slapper, huh? The character changed it from Kenneth Weitzmann. Marks made a fortune using computer avatars of dead actors in films glorifying Communism; Douglas Fairbanks as Che Guevara or Robert Goulet as Stalin in the musical biopic Koba!


    Irvine has a twisted sense of humor. I like it

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    05/20/09

    In reply to A Lethal Cash Injection, In A Prison-Industry-Dominated World
    Just curious, has anyone out there read anything else by Irvine? He's done a few other novels as well as come comics and a media tie-in for Supernatural I'm more kinda curious about his last book, The Narrows. Alternate WWII set in Detroit about a Ford plant making Golems for the war effort.


    Hell of a premise, but is it any good?

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/20/09

    @Grey_Area: R.O.A.C.H.: Uh, that's, "...as well as some comics and..."


    Me rite gud.

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    Image of ♪ ♪
    05/20/09

    In reply to A Lethal Cash Injection, In A Prison-Industry-Dominated World
    I'm more partial to investing in the floating death traps that are prison ships.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/20/09

    @♪: And if there's a riot and the prisoners take over it's all "Ahoy, me hearties!" and piracy ensues.
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    05/20/09

    In reply to A Lethal Cash Injection, In A Prison-Industry-Dominated World
    Argh! More books to read! Never going to make it to the bottom of the list, never!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/20/09

    @corpore-metal: I've worked my way down to one book left on the backburner while I work on this Ian Cormac novel.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/20/09

    @corpore-metal: There is no bottom, friend. It's books all the way down.
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    Image of matthewtoney matthewtoney
    05/20/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: "Line War" or are you on an earlier Cormac story? Asher's stuff is like candy for me - lots of fun but I usually burn thru it in a day...
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/20/09

    @matthewtoney: Brass Man, right now. It's thick but has big font; I just can't find the time to read throughout the day so I plod through them nowadays.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    05/20/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: "Shadow of the Scorpion" is good, but "Prador Moon" left me cold, if you're planning what to read next.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/20/09

    In reply to A Lethal Cash Injection, In A Prison-Industry-Dominated World
    Great! My bookstack was running low. As usual, if this novel blows I'm going to burn your house down, Grey_Area.
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    Image of hakubak hakubak
    11/06/08

    In reply to Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration
    Sorry guys, all these high-contrast Che Obama images are creeping me out. We're not a banana republic just yet.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/06/08

    @hakubak: Give it time.
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    Image of radcap (acct terminated by Annalee) radcap (acct terminated by Annalee)
    11/06/08

    In reply to Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration
    *Optimistic* futurism?


    Now that it is Obama as President, it is no longer *dystopian* to (casually!!!) write about the government abandoning the US Constitution??? It is *optimistic* to now talk about eviscerating the foundation of the US government and replacing it with a "direct democracy"???


    WOW. "Change" indeed.

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    Image of Rusty626 Rusty626
    11/06/08

    In reply to Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration
    I wish the sodahead ads would go away.
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