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• Twitter Links The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

  Even in his earliest stories, Dick wrestled with the nature of perception. As he described it to me, “I began to get an idea…

  December 18 2011, 3:20am | Comments

• Twitter Links Never go with a cultist to a second location

  On HP Lovecraft: Alex Fitch talks to Alan Moore about his final graphic novel that isn’t part of the continuing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen…

  December 18 2011, 3:05am | Comments

• Twitter Links Out of Imagination Came a New Online World

  Neal Stephenson doesn’t like talking about how he predicted the future.

  December 7 2011, 6:06am | Comments

• Link Innovation Starvation

  SF has changed over the span of time I am talking about—from the 1950s (the era of the development of nuclear power, jet airplanes, the space race, and the computer)…

  October 2 2011, 4:47am | Comments

• Tumblr Brundlefly

  September 19 2011, 1:25am | Comments

• Twitter Links How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  by Slavoj Zizek For any avid cinema-goer, it is difficult to avoid the feeling that he has already seen all this. Lacan's description not…

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

• Twitter Links Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  The dirty little secret of speculative fiction is that it’s hard to go wrong predicting that things will get worse. But while avoiding the…

  September 4 2011, 6:12pm | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

  July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments

• Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

  July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr Win Sector

  July 6 2011, 8:40am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Link On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING

  From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve…

  June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Link The Things, by Peter Watts

  I am being Blair. I escape out the back as the world comes in through the front. I am being Copper. I am rising from the dead. I am being…

  June 20 2011, 5:13am | Comments

• Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation.…

  June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

• Link First ever direct English translation of Solaris published

  The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and…

  June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments

• Instapaper A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time,…

  Discussion of John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There” (A Slug of Time podcast) #TheThing #SciFi #podcast

  June 2 2011, 4:09am | Comments

• Tumblr We by Evgeny Zamyatin: Images from Other Worlds

  May 16 2011, 3:02am | Comments

• Link Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of…

  In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a…

  April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments

• Link The Temporary Autonomous Zone

  I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not…

  January 22 2011, 6:43am | Comments

• Link All the greatest scenes where someone talks a…

  Want to learn how to make a computer go foom just by talking to it? Here's a step-by-step tutorial from the master himself, Captain Kirk. And below, we've got every…

  December 22 2010, 3:16pm | Comments

• Link Kubrick on 2001

  You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their…

  November 19 2010, 3:29am | Comments

• Link Ridley Scott goes back to Philip K. Dick…

  According to the Guardian Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks…

  October 8 2010, 3:45am | Comments

• Link J.G. Ballard reviews Chris Marker's La Jetee

  This review appeared in New Worlds in 1966 and as far as I can tell is currently unavailable anywhere else.

  September 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments

• Link Six scientists tell us about the most accurate…

  What do scientists think about seeing their fields of research pulverized by science fiction? We asked researchers from diverse fields to tell us whether any science fiction gets it right.…

  September 23 2010, 5:07am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's…

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Link If the Earth Stood Still

  If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the equatorial region to emerge. This would eventually result in a huge equatorial…

  August 16 2010, 2:51am | Comments

• Link The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations

  We've dedicated this Power Grid to the most disgusting alien civilizations to ever grace the page, screen, or hard drive. Why is biology used as technology the easiest way to…

  August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Miscellanous Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

  August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

  August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments

• Link Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard

  Writers have long been fascinated by machinery – what it gives and what it takes away. Tom McCarthy, whose experimental work has been hailed as the future of fiction, charts…

  July 25 2010, 7:13am | Comments

• Link Who Goes There by John W. Campbell

  Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart, published August 1938 in Astounding Stories. In 1973, the story…

  July 16 2010, 3:46am | Comments

• Portfolio To crush a Morlock’s skull

  June 28 2010, 10:42am | Comments

• Link Why science fiction matters for people who don’t…

  Science fiction dates as quickly as any genre, and Bradbury is not entirely immune to this. The futuristic rocket ships he wrote about in 1950 look a lot like the…

  May 16 2010, 4:34pm | Comments

• Link Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery

  In Don DeLillo's latest novel, the weirdly exciting "Point Omega," a character is "trying to read science fiction but nothing she'd read so far could begin to match ordinary life…

  May 16 2010, 4:33pm | Comments

• Link Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On…

  Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or…

  May 14 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Link Philip K Dick journals to be published next…

  The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53,…

  May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• Link Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox

  When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction…

  January 24 2010, 6:06pm | Comments

• Link When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like…

  Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the…

  December 23 2009, 3:24am | Comments

• Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical… The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years…

  September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Link Is Star Trek A Religion?

  Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the…

  July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments

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