IO9's Annalee Newitz has posted a great syllabus and book list for novice students of science fiction literature, filled with good suggestions for getting started in the field.
Reading list for new science fiction readers
Cyberpunks, mutants, and mondoids gather in San Francisco in August
Gray Area in San Francisco hands its Grand Theater to the 1990s techno-counterculture on August 12 and 13, when R.U. Sirius and the crowd behind the cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000… READ THE REST
The person who'd use your $1,000 suit as a floor rag
Some people would happily wreck your $1,000 suit to mop up a spill, because the small amount of utility it beats the hurt it causes you. Writing on the blog… READ THE REST
Neal Stephenson's guide to writing books with a fountain pen
Neal Stephenson writes his novels the way people did in 1850. The science-fiction author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and the thousand-page Baroque Cycle has composed nearly every book since about… READ THE REST
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