January 2012
Whatever talent I have for writing lies in being friends with my head: I know its vagaries, its twists and turns, its hobo journeys in fast freights, riding the blinds to unknown destinations. Sometimes I get thrown off the train in the middle of nowhere; sometimes I get to the Big Rock Candy Mountain
part of the book depicts humans, in the far-off future, escaping the dying Earth and settling on Venus — in the process totally exterminating its native inhabitants, an intelligent marine species
Earthquake Sound of the Mw9.0 Tohoku, Japan earthquake (Zhigang Peng)
December 2011
November 2011
“I suppose I’ve gotten used to the fact,” says the 58-year-old, “that some of my fictions percolate out into the material world.”
I write over and over in a spiraling loop. →
imagine hunters who are after more than just deer,... →
I was a princess. There was nothing to restore. →
October 2011
“In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference“
Brainiac 5 possesses a Twelfth Level Intellect, which grants him superhuman calculation skills, amazing memory and exceptional technical knowledge. By comparison, 20th century Earth as a whole constitutes a Sixth Level Intellect, and most of his fellow Coluans have an Eighth Level Intellect. 31st century Earth as a whole is a Ninth Level Intellect. His incredible memory allows him to retain...
I happen to believe that most of the important things in the material world start out as fiction. That everything around us was once fiction - before there was the table there was the idea of a table, and the idea of a table before tables was fiction.
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http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/all/1 http://uvb-76.net/
September 2011
The zombifying fungus can be seen growing from the... →
New data [...] suggest that high-energy radiation... →
single gene in a caterpillar virus sends its... →