It has not been hard for me to decide which novel I think should win this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award. There are, for starters, two nominees I neither particularly admire nor particularly lik… more →
Torque Controljjackunrau wrote 13 hours ago: Glasshouse is now my favourite Charles Stross book. It’s about a person with a bunch of memory … more →
yadaraf wrote 2 weeks ago: This is mainly my fault. I decided to go tubing in the hot Arizonan sun for 3.5 hours, and went dow … more →
moorglade wrote 3 weeks ago: Neal Stephenson has been a ‘buy on sight’ author for me since Cryptonomicon. His ab … more →
C.M. Choate wrote 3 weeks ago: At the beginning of this month, I mentioned some of the open-source leeching going on, along with me … more →
LW wrote 3 weeks ago: From the good folks at Pill Talk, a reminder that today’s illicit drugs were yesterday’ … more →
Jonathan Danz wrote 3 weeks ago: I just started reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. I’m only about 30-some pages into it, b … more →
Tom wrote 4 weeks ago: Just a little story here. Last post I talked about getting blurbs from busy and very accomplished f … more →
mintybeth wrote 4 weeks ago: Two weeks of vacation this summer and where am I headed? London and Paris. Last summer, I trekked to … more →
mintybeth wrote 4 weeks ago: Two weeks of vacation this summer and where am I headed? London and Paris. Last summer, I trekked to … more →
Tom wrote 4 weeks ago: So, when we last left this journal, I promised to get to the point on the dark art of blurbing. N … more →
Hector wrote 1 month ago: Anathem by Neal Stephenson My review rating: 5 of 5 starsThis is an amazing temple of a book. … more →
mredly wrote 1 month ago: In order to fill the gaping void that is a Blog sans posts, we have this. I leave for my 8-week stay … more →
domperalta wrote 1 month ago: Sketched these out while working over at the Maker Faire last weekend. Love the Maker Faire, its li … more →
range wrote 1 month ago: Anathem by Neal Stephenson Anathem is Neal Stephenson’s latest novel. After having toiled at T … more →
fuzzysoul wrote 1 month ago: I just finished Snow Crash, a novel by Neal Stephenson about the “metaverse.” Welcome to … more →
Christopher Cocca wrote 1 month ago: Our good friend Chad has recommended Neal Stephenson’s work to me on more than one occasion, m … more →
Archer wrote 1 month ago: TVOntario’s Big Ideas and The Long Now Foundation are both fantastic sites for free podcasts o … more →
yoyomarules wrote 1 month ago: I will eventually get around to writing my piece(s) on the utilitarianism debate, but my exams finis … more →
righteousindigestion wrote 1 month ago: Just shove this into your face and accept you’ve been dominated, punk. You can’t read t … more →