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Jasper Frank’s Very Bad Day (Part I)
Hello again, everyone! Last week I talked about Melissa’s story “Quincy and The Nano” and how it highlighted the issue of genre. Because Melissa is a self-proclaimed Fantasy writer, her take on Science...
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Jasper Frank’s Very Bad Day (Part II)
Hello again, everyone! This has been a fun experiment so far. I’ve really enjoyed toying with the lines, and, I hope, demonstrating that the divides between genres can be pretty thin sometimes. I hope...
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Jasper Frank’s Very Bad Day (Part III)
Hello, everyone! This will be the final part of my running short story, and unfortunately also my last post of the month! The good news is that Melissa will be back next week, so you should definitely...
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We Are All Cyborgs Now
Hello everyone! ‘Tis I, Erik the Reddest, back on rotation. I thought I’d start off this month with a little cultural criticism because I’m an English major and we like to pretend we know something...
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Will We Have Computer Chips In Our Heads?
Hello everyone! As I said last week, I’ll be spending the next few posts highlighting some cogent points from William Gibson’s non-fiction writings and thoughts, working from his anthology Distrust...
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Science Fiction Roundup: Robotics Update
Hello, everyone! I decided to take a break from the heavy stuff this week and point you all to some interesting articles in a much-overdue Science Fiction Roundup. I read dozens of tech-related blogs...
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Will We All Be Obsolete? Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity Debate
Hello everyone! This month I’ve been talking about William Gibson’s non-fiction writings, centering on his assertion that our interactions with technology have already made us the cyborgs of his...
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Googling the Cyborg: is it Steam Engine Time?
Hello everyone, This is my last post for the month, and so I’ll be wrapping up my original thoughts on William Gibson’s non-fiction theories and responses to cultural phenomenon outside of his novels,...
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Pathos in Pieces: Nostalgia in The Lego Movie
It may have something to do with the fact that I’m getting hitched in under two months, but I’ve recently been thinking a lot about emotions. Specifically, the ways people try to drag out an emotional...
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VR: Where You Can Punch A Shark In the Face
Virtual Reality Explosion: Soon You Too Can Punch A Shark in the Face A few stories come up here and there in the general news media about advances in virtual reality technology, but if you haven’t...
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