July 2011
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Rule 34
This is Charles Stross new novel, Rule 34. If the title strikes you as peculiar then you might like to know that it refers to 34th rule of the Internet; Generally accepted rule that states that pornography or sexually related material exists for any conceivable subject. Or said more bluntly; If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions.
The book is a loose sequel to “Halting...
June 2011
3 posts
Now reading
“Explodes out the gate like a sonic boom and never stops. Adrenaline bleeds from Williams’ fingers with every word he hammers into the keyboard. The razors of The Mirrored Heavens would eat cyberpunk’s old-guard hackers and cowboys as a light snack.”—Peter Watts, author of Blindsight I like this book a lot. Pick it up if you like fast, actionpacked SF.
John Waters is right - as always
I have just finished reading the latest Waters book. Role Models. Publishers Weekly describes it like this (and I can’t improve on the description):
The director of the gross-out epic Pink Flamingos and other cinematic provocations salutes the people he finds inspiring—himself foremost among them—in these self-regarding essays. Waters’s role models range from icons like Johnny Mathis...
Yog-blogsoth
This blog will be an attempt to draw all the creatures Lovecraft ever wrote about or mentioned. (Not safe for work and not safe for your sanity.)
http://yog-blogsoth.blogspot.com/
May 2011
4 posts
Currently reading
I got a hankerin’ for japanese SF for some reason a few days ago. I have never read any japanese SF that I can remember, and I thought there ought to be some translated to English at least.
Turns out it was.
The publishing house Haika Soru publishes hard japanese SF (is there any other kind?)
The book I am currently reading is this:
Good Luck Yukikaze
The alien JAM have been at...
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I decided to try out this tumblr malarkey when I really should be doing other things. My old blog at razorhack.net is still down, and I have no idea when I will get the .. ahum .. inspiration to start over. Much of what was posted there is probably gone forever. The server crash sent most of it down into the cybernetic gopher hole.
Diablo Cody twittered this a few days ago:
“If...