For those of you not on facebook (and I salute you), I might as well mention here that “The Things” took the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story over at Readercon last Sunday. I post this now because the only other thing I’d have time to post before the perogies are done would involve […]
Either/Or
Category: interviews, writing newsYeah, I know. Bad time for the ‘crawl to go into therapeutic coma, what with all the nifty neuroethical and neurocognitive and neurodeep-sea-mineral-exploitation stuff piling up on the feeds. I’ve jammed out on this month’s Gibraltar Point workshop as well, if it’s any consolation. On the plus side, though: 80,000 words down on State of Grace […]
An Episode that Siri Keeton’s Dad Would Just as Soon Forget
Category: Dumbspeech, fiblet“Wait.” Brüks held up his hand. “Start over. How did it — I mean, if it wasn’t viral epilepsy, how—” “Viral something,” Li crowed. “Viral zombieism.” Ventilator sounds filled in the sudden silence. “Bullshit,” Brüks said softly. “Oh he didn’t do it deliberately the larva was just collateral. Some evildoer cooked up a basement bug […]
A Prick in a Poke: Penises and the Preconscious Mind
Category: neuro, sciliticsAndrew Buhr pointed me to Jesse Bering’s article over at scientificamerican.com. It’s an interesting popsci review of sexsomnia (i.e, sex while asleep), and all the awkwardness, legal and otherwise, arising therefrom. The dude in France who anally raped his employee because the employee’s somnambulistic behavior led him to believe the act was consensual; the other […]
Late-Breaking, Live-Streaming
Category: On the Road, public interfaceIf any of you have gotten bored and glanced over at the Coming Appearances slice of the sidebar, you may have noticed the Transhumanism Meets Design item coming up this weekend in New York. It’s an event which, while not present in the flesh, I’ll be Skyping into around 1400 so that I may riff […]
Vagina Boy.
Category: Flesh-Eating Fest '11It was three months ago to the day that they first opened my leg to scrape out the rot within. Just this week I received the jpeg of that initial exploratory incision: As it turned out, it wasn’t big enough. This is what my leg looked like a few hours later (and, for that matter, […]
Crysis: Outtake
Category: fibletDo you believe in fate, Roger? Deja vu? Any of that shit? I never really gave much thought to it before, but lately it’s almost as though something’s —directing me, almost. Like, as long as you steer right it’s clear to the horizon, but every time you try to go left there’s a pile of […]
To Intensify Heinlein…
Category: rant, scilitics…Democracy is based on the idea that a million idiots can make a better decision than a single intelligent person. I suppose the obvious rejoinder would have something to do with sour grapes. Still, the following facts are not in dispute: this is the first government in Canadian history to have been found in contempt […]
Freddie Mercury was Wrong.
Category: writing newsYou may remember a while back when I squeed about “The Things” being nominated for a BSFA. As it turned out yesterday, it didn’t win — which would have left me bitter and resentful if not for the fact that the same story has also made the finals for the Shirley Jackson Award. (This has actually […]
Fleshmesh: Or, More Guidelines than Actual Rules…
Category: Flesh-Eating Fest '11Specifically, Guideline #5: Do not drink any wine, beer, or alcohol for twenty-four hours after your discharge from the hospital. Yeah, right. Like that was ever going to happen. But I’m back home now, and bedridden again, and all the range-of-motion exercises I was supposed to perform last time (to increase strength in the ankle) […]