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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 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 Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/06/08

    In reply to Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration
    If I hear the word "post-racial" again, I will strangle the first person I see. All this talk of this nonexistent racial barrier makes me sick. Black people in the recent past couldn't become president not because of their color, but because they were crap and uncharismatic. I mean, Jesse Jackson? Come on. All you have to do to break this illusion is see how many people of the "ethnic background" (kind of nondescript since being white is also an ethnicity) are in high governmental positions. And there are quite a lot.


    *Sorry for the rant.

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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    11/06/08

    @Parkington wrote, "All you have to do to break this illusion is see how many people of the "ethnic background" (kind of nondescript since being white is also an ethnicity) are in high governmental positions. And there are quite a lot."


    And does that worry you, Parkington? Because it sounds like it does.


    I agree we should all mellow out about this but, white male whining about this--which sounds to me like you're doing--sounds particularly victim-ish to me. Pot meet kettle.

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/06/08

    @corpore-metal: Meh. Maybe I'm not a white male. Nor am I against having people of different racial backgrounds having power in the government. It's just that I am tired of people who claimed that Obama's campaign had nothing to do with his race are suddenly so proud that America has picked a black president.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/06/08

    @Parkington: Another reason he's the first, is that other worthy African-Americans have been Conservatives, and therefore demonized.
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    11/06/08

    In reply to Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration
    ALTERNATE TIMELINES!


    Personally, I will think his greatest success was --raising national morale, indirectly affecting the economy, education, and decreasing overall political apathy, leading to a new golden age for the USA.--Civil rights--Economy--International relations--Free cheese dip.


    Personally, I will think his greatest failure was breaking each and every campaign promise and being just another bastard, only marginally better than Bush.


    Personally, I will think he was an OK president, he did some good, did some bad, bit --more good than bad.--more bad than good.--more run than gun--more thelma than louise--more buck than bang--more bang than buck.


    Personally, I will be saddened by his untimely death after a long illness. Biden was a --mediocre replacement at best.-- great replacement.-- awful replacement.


    Personally, I think it was too late already. The zom(*#(*er*@alr#*risi****


    ERROR! BUFFER OVERFLOW! OBAMARAMA.DLL NOT FOUND. OUT OF CHEESE. REDO FROM START.

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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/06/08

    @Ghede: Raising the National Morale? Have you looked at the Stock Market since the election? Investors are scared spitless.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/06/08

    In reply to Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration
    Does it bother anyone else that the "nanobama's" in the pic above are white?
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    11/06/08

    @Gann: Until they invent nano-dye designed for carbon nanotubes, or nano-blackface, no.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/06/08

    In reply to Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration
    From the first link: "My students find this hard to believe, raised as they were in a world where skin color is just another accidental, like the length of one's hair or one's sexual orientation."


    I don't think President Obama is going to change that in only 8 years; racism and homophobia are too entrenched. But it would be really nice to have happen.


    He's not going to produce miracles -- I just want him to rein in the money oligarchy, make science a good thing instead of a dirty word, take advice from someone other than the "Moral" "Majority" types, not start a pointless war, not piss off the rest of the world... basically just undo the stupid shit of the past 8 years.


    Also, he should adopt a rescued pound puppy to be First Dog. Yes We Can save a puppeh!

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