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Robota
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No comments on RobotaDoug Chiang Studio – home of the Robota art/book/film story. There’s an extremely well done teaser video (Teaser II) for the project there.
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Nano Ring
The Nano Ring – the Lord of the Rings parody thread has been circulating around the Internet for a while now, but if you’re a fan of Peter F. Hamilton, there’s a great send up of his neverending propensity to make up reams of technical specifications and acronyms in The Nano Ring…
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Back
Well, I’m finally back from Utah. I actually got back about five days ago, but I think I can be excused from writing entries here what with jetlag and all the Christmas festivities going on – plus, if you’re bored, you should be reading my Two Weeks on Mars weblog. Things have been fairly quiet…
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Retroactive destruction
There are some novels that are truly magnificent, that remain with you for years and at times influence who you are. Most authors, having written such novels, are wise enough to leave their works alone and move on to something else. A few authors will embark on writing a sequel. A few sequels match or…
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Cereal
Turning books into cereals – who knew it could be so fun? Witness ‘Consider Breakfast’ by Iain Banks, ‘Chomsky’s Universal Grahams’ and Stephen Hawking’s ‘Universes in Nutshells’.
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Spiritng Neal Stephenson Away
A review of a lecture by award-winning SF author Neal Stephenson, on ‘Newton/Leibniz’, together with a review of Miyazaki’s film ‘Spirited Away’.
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Work
I don’t really like to talk about my university studies here, but I think this warrants mentioning, especially since it ties in with Neal Stephenson, who’ll you remember is speaking at Trinity tomorrow. In Cryptonomicon, Stephenson makes the following observation: [Randy is talking about complicated computer stuff to Chester.] Chester nods all the way through…
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Spiriting Stephenson Away
Whee! Next Thursday (24th October) Neal Stephenson, one of my favourite SF authors, will be coming to speak at Trinity College about Newton vs. Leibniz. This would be good enough news on its own, but on the same night Queens College film society will be screening Spirited Away (known in Japan as Sen to Chihiro…
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Dead Air
I just finished reading Iain Banks’ new (non-SF) novel Dead Air. I finished it in less than 24 hours; it’s one of those books that reads very easily, unlike most of his other novels. Dead Air was certainly entertaining enough and I never became bored, but as many others have noted, it doesn’t have much…
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Books
Books bought recently: Dead Air, Fast Food Nation, Coraline, The New York Trilogy, The Feeling Of What Happens, Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing and The Pursuit Of Oblivion (I wasn’t going to find the links for all of those, but then I had a change of heart).
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