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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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Several of the most imaginative minds in science fiction (and science) gathered at this year's Readercon to discuss a fundamental question of our existence: Why does it seem like we're alone in the universe? Writers Jeff Hecht, Steven Popkes, Robert J. Sawyer, Ian Randal Strock, and Michael A. Burstein offered their recommendations for the best fictional explorations of this question, commonly known as the Fermi paradox. See their picks, and find out more about one of the greatest paradoxes in human existence.
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