Cyberpunk Isn’t Dead
More ‘SF is dying’ stuff, only this time it’s very specific to cyberpunk. For those that don’t know what Cyberpunk is the subgenre of SF in which Neuromancer by William Gibson, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, The Matrix (and sequels), and various other technocentric films and books fit into. A recent article over at io9 […]
I Miss the Future
There’s something about the Golden Age of science fiction and the period I call “Post Golden Age” that still captures my imagination and keeps me interested in science fiction. Some might call it the ‘adventure’ and others might think of it as a sense of wonder. Perhaps it’s both. The thing is, science fiction is […]
Edelman’s Moral Quandaries (Pt. 4)–Dropping Nuclear Options
The concern over nuclear weaponry and nuclear power plants (or nuclear anything really) has been strong ever since we bombed Japan in WW2. As Edelman says: Once upon a time, two countries were idiotic enough to play a high-stakes game of chess where the stakes were the survival of the human race. You don’t like […]
Genre Links For Jan. 17th
Yup, more links for all of you. I read so many blogs and I poke around with stumbleupon and can’t help myself. Enjoy: The Fix has a great article about writing Hard SF even if you’re not a scientific genius. Good stuff there. (Courtesy of SF Signal) Is sci-fi out of good ideas? This is […]
Edelman’s Moral Quandaries (Pt. 3)–B.P.F.&.D.W.
The acronym stands for: Balancing Personal Freedom and Division of Wealth.Edelman wrote: Westerners are inclined to see the political landscape as a spectrum between hard-core loony socialism (all the world’s wealth should be divided equally among its population, regardless of merit) and equally loony hard-core capitalism (everyone go grab your share of the pie, and […]
Edelman’s Moral Quandaries (Pt. 2)–Divorcing Morality From Religion
Ah, the infamous ‘religion’ thing. Edelman has a clearly atheist viewpoint on the subject of religion. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and this isn’t in any way an attack on Edelman, but simply a point of explanation. His viewpoint is shared by quite a lot of people, including me to some extent. Religion is […]