A couple of weeks back I told you about Infest Wisely, the seven-part “low-fi sci-fi” independent film put together by Jim Munroe and his motley accomplices; Dave Nickle blogged his thoughts following the premiere. Since that night (standing-room only, by the way) they’ve been podcasting one episode a week. I’ve kept quiet about that until […]
One millionth the budget of Spiderman 3. One thousand times the smarts.
Category: fellow liarsFourth Printing
Category: UncategorizedEvidently Blindsight has gone into a fourth printing. Don’t know exactly when, or the size of the run, or anything beyond the basic fact that it happened; hell, I wouldn’t even know that much if some guy at the Wall Street Journal hadn’t mentioned it. Whatever the source, though, it’s good news.
Not the Orange Juice. The Award.
Category: writing newsOne of these objects does not belong with the others. Guess which one. “a complex drama of faith, love, church politics, and art, set in 17th- and 18th-century Cremona” “A delicate, haunting story-within-a-story told by a girl who must choose between her bright, beloved town and the dark forest beyond it” “A mortally injured child […]
Not the Soup. The Award. Not that Award; the Other Award.
Category: fellow liars, writing newsOkay, I got this via Scalzi’s blog, which linked in turn to this official-looking site, so I guess it’s on the level even though I’ve received no official notification. But it looks like Blindsight made the finals for the John W. Campbell Award. It’s in there with the usual worthy suspects from the Hugos and […]
Unsung Heroes
Category: UncategorizedSorry I haven’t been around here much lately. It’s getting down to the wire for this damn York address and I’ve gotta shave half an hour off of it. (It’s tough — I mean, you try argueing that pedophiles and suicide bombers will be the ones setting the ground rules for any post-singularity society. In […]
Anyone with half a brain could tell it.
Category: neuroVia Futurismic, an accessible piece from Scientific American on radical hemispherectomies, an operation which readers of Blindsight will recognise as the defining moment in the depersonalisation of the young Siri Keeton.
London Falling
Category: ink on artSaw 28 Weeks Later last night. Few explicit spoilers follow, but much can be infered from what I write below. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, and you intend to, you may want to skip this entry. Released at the start of the summer blockbuster season: going up against Spiderman, Pirates, Shrek, Die Hard, […]
Motherhood Issues
Category: just putting it out there..., rant, sociobiologyHow many times have you heard new parents, their eyes bright with happy delerium (or perhaps just lack of sleep), insisting that you don’t know what love is until you first lay eyes on your baby? How many of you have reunited with old university buddies who have grown up and spawned, only to find […]
How to Build a Zombie Detector
Category: just putting it out there..., neuroA fair number of topics jostling for attention lately: slime moulds outfitted with skittish cyborg exoskeletons, Jim Munroe’s microbudget megasavvy take on nanotech, even this recent research on free will in fruit flies (which I’m wary of, but am holding off commenting upon until I’ve thoroughly read the original paper). And I’m in bitten-off-more-than-I-can-chew mode […]
Off-Key Speaker
Category: writing newsSo there’s this annual thing up at York University: the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (although for some reason their web site seems to stop at 2005). A few months back I gave a guest lecture up at York, which was evidently a big hit on account of most academic speakers tend […]