lem
Last monday, 27 March 2006, world renowned science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem died at age 84 in Krakow, his home city. When I was a teenager, every day right after school I stalked the book joint at the station … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: sci-fi
time machine cuba
Within every human individual there is a personal eclectic conglomeration of ambiences and narrative content built from a lifetime of experience, assimilating information, and digesting popular culture. When this conglomerations are shared by a group of people, we deal … Continue reading →
cyberpunk review
No, that’s neither ↵Teh_Masterer, nor ↵him—it’s a character out of ↑Mamoru Oshii’s 2001 movie Avalon. I took the screencap from ↑cyberpunkreview.com, a blog and “The most complete cyberpunk movie site on the net”. It’s nicely organised, decently looking, and … Continue reading →
top 20 g33k novelz
The influence of literary fiction and movies is not to neglect when trying to understand cyberculture, the cultural appropriation of ICTs, or parts of that. Currently ↑The Guardian‘s ↑technology blog has a ↑top twenty list of geek novels, constrcuted by … Continue reading →
spooknik
On 4 October 1957 ↑Stephen King was at the cinema. Together with the other ten-year-olds clustered around him he watched the morning performance of ↑Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Just as the flying saucers started their attack on Washington D.C. … Continue reading →
threedimensional teleporter-malfunction
by ↑KerLeone—translated by zeph The suitcase did not pass through the teleporter. I am speaking of ↑Half-Life 2. I just wanted to take along the suitcase from the railway station. But then I am standing in the room with the … Continue reading →
ls4 released
Late at night HairlessWookie released LS4 at MPHQ. A great relieve, believe me. The last weeks were spent day and night at the comp, completing and then rendering my map.
Continue reading →wookies chat, too
Today I chatted via IRC for the first time since ages. Crazy of Max Payne Area (MPA), a German fanpage, wanted to do an interview with Wook and me on the Lightsaber mod. So Wook and me showed up there, … Continue reading →
blade runner novel pt.1
AEW. 2001. Blade Runner Novel Pt.1. mod-type: levels, music release date: 06 September 2001 release package: bladerunner2ndlevel.zip [9MB] package contains: br2.mpm [34MB] | br2.txt [3KB] download: at filefront accompanying br2.txt: ———————————————————————— Blade Runner Novel Pt.1 Author AEW Author walwin[at]qwest.net ———————————————————————— … Continue reading →