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So, you know that bit in every apocalypse when the plucky survivors find that bit of greenery growing in the fire-husked rubble of whatever cityscape they are currently foraging in for ramen and shotgun ammo? That little shoot of something, maybe a bean plant (which has the advantage of being much more practical than a [...]
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The enfant terrible of SF just turned 75, and if anything Harlan Ellison seems more energetic, irascible, and interesting than ever. Just caught the documentary all about Ellison on the Sundance Channel the other night, Dreams With Sharp Teeth. It’s hilarious, as you’d expect, but also rather touching, even if it did talk less than [...]
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Michael Andre-Driussi, of Lexicon Urthus fame, has an interesting piece over at The Internet Review of Science Fiction that is worth the time of any fan of Wolfe’s New Sun series to check out. ‘What Gene Wolfe Expects of His Readers: The Urth of the New Sun as Answer to Mysteries in the Book of [...]
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All species had patrons, of course. Nobody reached spacefaring intelligence without the intervention of another spacefaring race. Had not man done this for chimps and dolphins? All the way back to the time of the Progenitors, the mythical first race, every species that spoke and flew spaceships had been raised up by a predecessor. No [...]
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I had once played the lead in L’Aiglon and I had played Caesar in the only two plays about him worthy of the name. But to play such a role in life — well, it is enough to make one understand how a man could go to the guillotine in another man’s place — just [...]
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“Where is the voice that said altered carbon would free us from the cells of our flesh? The vision that said we would be angels?”
Title: Altered Carbon
Author: Richard K. Morgan
Genre: Science Fiction – Cyberpunk/Thriller
Year: 2002
Calling something cyberpunk-noir is almost a tautology, after all it is the hard and clipped cadences of the Hammett-Chandler school that [...]
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In a minute I’m going to tell about pirates, but there is not any real difference between pirates and wiseguys. One is at sea and the other is in cities. A big part of it is money, and money is just another way of saying freedom. If you have money, you can do pretty much [...]
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There was ample time before his funeral.
At that point — like all the dead, whether they were high or low, and Privileged or not — he would face the final proof of the crypt’s ferociously impartial judgment. As the saying had it: the crypt was deep and the human soul was shallow. And the shallower [...]
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