Fan-readings from my essay collection "Content"

Mathematician/physicist Jan Rubak has done me the honour of recording readings of six of the essays from my nonfiction collection, Content and uploading them to the Internet Archive. He's a great reader, too!

- In Praise of Fanfic
- Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia
- Amish for QWERTY
- Free(konomic) Ebooks
- The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights
- When the Singularity is More Than a Literary Device: An Interview with Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil

All 28 essays are available as free downloads (and there have been a ton of conversions to everything from Braille to OpenDoc) and, of course, there's a beautiful physical object for sale, too.

Content readings (Thanks, Jan!)

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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Catmother

Cry, y r lwys tlkng bt yr wrtng!

‘sp wt dt, y?

slf-prmtnng s nt ky!
Catmother

Let the record note: I disemvowelled that myself, because it was a fun meta-crappy joke to do!
John H.

Is the metacrap one the essay in which you finally snap over the incredible snark levels directed towards Boing Boing from the direction of Metafilter, and go after the place with a blowtorch?
Kabur Naj

Actually, I kinda thought he was also promoting my fan-boy work. Y’know grass-roots “making” and stuff.
DoppelFrog

I hate to say it… But if it’s Cory’s blog then he can do all the self-promotion he wants. That doesn’t mean that we to have to like it of course.
Alys

Thanks Jan! I appreciate the extra content for my iPod :)

(and Cory, I quite agree – Jan’s a great reader.)
lysdexia

In “When the Singularity is More than a Literary Device” there is a reference to a computer “waking up” in Heinlein’s “The Man Who Sold the Moon”. It is later referred to as “Mike”. Please flay me with scorn if I’m mistaken, but Mike appeared in “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. Is that a mistake from an earlier edition of the essay?

Awesome reading of this collection BTW!
Kabur Naj

At the risk of sounding like Sarah Palin: Gosh, aww shucks!
Kabur Naj

A small point of clarification: there are six essays there now, but more will be uploaded as I complete them. I plan to finish the whole book.

Enjoy!