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.

  • Antinous / Moderator

    No, I wasn’t planning to ever sleep again.  Thanks for asking.

    • http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

       GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!

      wow that was some kind of awesome.

  • http://northierthanthou.com/ northierthanthou

    This is very cool!

  • http://twitter.com/stuck411 David

    I was on a date like that once.

  • http://contraditorium.com Carlos Cardoso

    H.R. Giger called and asked for his nightmares back. 

    • Chentzilla

      His are better.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Trent-Baker/100000123865597 Trent Baker

    A vision of a future where humans, having destroyed or consumed all other animal life are forced to evolve to fill the environmental niches we so carelessly plundered.

  • silkox

    The bodyplan of the flying hominid is messed up. Wings are a forelimb homologue, and only insects get to have three pairs of limbs with bilateral symmetry, so this organism shouldn’t have arms to go with its wings. The spider hominid is just right, with four pairs of limbs.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      But arachnids have an abdomen and cephalothorax, no head.

      • Henry Pootel

        Then there’s the boobs

        • Rich Keller

          And bones, too. But having an endoskeleton inside an exoskeleton would be a good back-up support system. I think the bosoms are acting as pedipalps in this instance.

  • bcsizemo

    Reminds me of the Aeon Flux Leisure short.  Especially the end:
    http://liquidtelevision.com/video/aeon-flux-short-leisure/

  • Rich Keller

    This was creepy and I do mean that in the best possible way. This was disturbingly inventive.

  • http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood

    Fantastic.

    I would appreciate (on the host’s part) not making the assumption that everyone has the fattest datapipe, and defaulting to HD OFF.

    • donniebnyc

       I agree.  Everything on the internet should be configured for my personal needs.

  • Chentzilla

    It’s the XXI century, can we stop being afraid of skeletons?
    H. K. Chesterton would wholeheartedly agree.

  • Alpacaman

    Very good. Teleological in a very literal sense? Rather than giving nature human goals, it is literally made human. Or at least close enough, the skulls are defo sapiens.

    I can’t get italics going.

  • http://www.legrandbazart.com sigismund

    Wow, that’s terrific !!  It’s such a great work that you don’t even need to click on the play button it to realize this !! No, no… I don’t need to click on the play button… I’m telling you I don’t need to click… I won’t play it… But it’s terrific !!

  • Editz

    A unicorn chaser in this style would be unsettling.

  • absimiliard

    Wow, and EWWWWWWWwwwwww!!!! at the same time.  Lots of both FWIW.

    -abs thinks this is way down deep in his Uncanny Valley