↑William Gibson‘s comment on academia’s appropriation of the word “cyberspace”: Just a chance operator in the gasoline crack of history … Assembled word cyberspace from small and readily available components of language. Neologic spasm: the primal act of … Continue reading →
sf affecting rl Concept art for ↑“Blade Runner“ by ↑Syd Mead, ↑visual futurist. There is a thread at ↑williamgibsonboard collecting ↑links to images, sounds, or texts related to or evocative of William Gibson’s work. ↑RUR posted the above picture, … Continue reading →
↑STROSS, CHARLES. 2005. ↑Accelerando. New York: Ace. Available online [multiple formats and sizes]: http://www.accelerando.org/book/ reminded of by entry at williamgibsonboard | see also charlie’s diary
Continue reading →A discussion-thread at ↑williamgibsonboard, broaching the issue of the ↑actual looks of synthetical eyes within ↑Gibson‘s ↑sprawl trilogy inspired the man himself to write a blog-entry on ↑Molly’s mirrorshades and Zeiss-Ikon eyes. The entry is particularly interesting in respect to … Continue reading →
a sports-journalist’s biased commentary Last night 100-metres-men Olympic champion Merton Fuller was belatedly disqualified because of the results of a “doping test” done within the hour after his triumph. Inside one of the joints of his prosthetic augmentation a silicon-based … Continue reading →
a do-it-yourself guide to the future Brooks Landon’s 1993 article ↑Hypertext and science fiction, a review of Branwyn, Sugarman, et al.’s 1991 HyperCard classic ↑“Beyond Cyberpunk! A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future” [ah yes, it’s available on the Web … Continue reading →
With ↑urban china ↑2R has breezed one more set of his photos from China online. Again very moody, cyberpunk, and noir. Enjoy.
Continue reading →Bruce Sterling’s compilation of ↑what should be in every cyberpunk library is all very well, but have a look at ↑The Cyberpunk Reading List! Now I know what I am going to do the next 1001 nights. Just some … Continue reading →
Bruce Sterling’s compilation of ↑what should be in every cyberpunk library is all very well, but have a look at ↑The Cyberpunk Reading List! Now I know what I am going to do the next 1001 nights. Just some examples … Continue reading →
↑2R has returned from China and among other things brought along beautiful photographies of which he has put a ↑first set online. Partly noir, partly cyberpunk, partly both, all China. Lots of neon, menacing nighttime indoors and outdoors architecture, artefacts’ … Continue reading →