Charlie Stross in Second Life this Saturday

Wagner James Au sez, "Extropia, a large and prestigious futurist/transhumanist city in Second Life, will host Charles Stross at Sophrosyne's Special Salon, this Saturday, June 21, from 1-2:30 pm Pacific. Charlie will discuss the Singluarity in fiction, cutting-edge technologies, his Hugo-Award finalist novel Halting State, about virtual worlds and augmented reality, and his upcoming novel Saturn's Children. All event info at the link." Link (Thanks, James!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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umbilicaleyeball

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Jeff

I haven’t had much interest in finding yet another place to waste my time, but perhaps I’ll enter Second Life just for the Uber-Stross. What’s his avatar look like? A kill-bot of some sort? Charles Stross’s work is soooooo good.
Bloo

I’ve asked this elsewhere, and perhaps once on Boing-Boing (but I can’t remember)…

Has anyone taken Second Life’s open-sourced client and created a client that will run with lower-end graphics boards or indeed with graphics that come built-in to motherboards these days? I realize this could result in Clints and Brandies showing up in larger numbers, but it could also provide the critical mass to make SL the progenitor of something like the Metaverse
Michael R. Bernstein

In related news, Vermont OKs the Creation of Virtual Corporations:
http://gigaom.com/2008/06/17/vermont-oks-the-creation-of-virtual-corporations/

This means that board meetings can happen in SL.
The Unusual Suspect

Charlie Stross FTW!

I haven’t read a Charles Stross story I didn’t love, and I’ve read them all.
BarkingSpider

And in other news…Second Life still exists and people still use it.

At least this was news to me. ;-)
Jaycatt

Bloo: There’s this viewer, which is independently created for a variety of situations. Perhaps one of them will work for you…

http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/2008/05/version-overview.html