Tag: Science Fiction
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Aylett’s Inferno
An Essay by Bill Ectric on Steve Aylett’s Shamanspace This essay first appeared in the book Steve Aylett: A Critical Anthology; Published by Sein und Werden Books, Copyright 2016 by Sein und Werden and Bill Ectric. All rights reserved. WARNING: This review contains spoilers. —∞— “Of making many books there is no end, and much study…
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A Sci-Fi Screenplay Written by Artificial Intelligence
Here’s an intriguing article about a screenplay written by a computer. I found this at ARS Technica. Knowing that an AI wrote Sunspring makes the movie more fun to watch, especially once you know how the cast and crew put it together. Director Oscar Sharp made the movie for Sci-Fi London, an annual film festival…
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D. Harlan Wilson’s excellent book on J. G. Ballard
Book Review by Bill Ectric D. Harlan Wilson has made a literary mark in the field of cultural theory, focusing on the loss of humanity in the inescapable rush of accelerating technology, with books like Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction and Cultographies: They Live. While his fiction tends to be disorienting (a trait his…
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The Hardest Working Man in Weird Fiction: A Jeff VanderMeer Interview
This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks on December 19, 2008. In 2018, Paramount pictures will release Annihilation, a film based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, starring Natalie Portman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. In close proximity to primordial Florida swamps, branch-shrouded canopy roads, and Kafkaesque state capital intrigues, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer are Tallahassee’s…
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Rod Serling Revisited
An article I wrote for Literary Kicks a few years ago: It’s common among “Beat Generation” aficionados to scorn the popular media version of the Beats, especially the term “beatnik”, and the stereotypical goatee-sporting hipster. But to a youngster growing up in a small town, like me, sensing there was more out there than what…
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Interview With Steve Aylett
This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks, May 26, 2006 Postmodern novelist Steve Aylett was born in 1967 in the Bromley Borough of London, England. His first book, The Crime Studio, was published in 1994, and his later works include Bigot Hall, Slaughtermatic and his most recent tour de force, Lint. Aylett’s work has been…
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no absolute future: Bruce Sterling interviewed by Rachel Haywire
I’ve found an interesting new internet presence. Trigger Warning is a California LLC that was started in 2015 by Rachel Haywire of INSTED. It is a new media entity that houses a unique network of writers, artists, journalists, and cultural innovators; offering a provocative alternative to the liberal paradigm of our current media narrative. It…