Jim Munroe sez, "Ten years from now, videogames are so immersive that teenagers learn lethal skills just by playing. They're called hapheads.

The folks I made Ghosts With Shit Jobs with made this trailer I adapted from a book-length story I'm working on. — Read the rest

Jim "Angry Young Spaceman" Munroe sez,

I've released Therefore Repent! as a CC licenced pdf, cbr and cbz
download. ("It's completely nuts… It's a book about what if the
Rapture actually happened, and that's all I'm gonna tell you." -Junot
Díaz, 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction)

I'm hoping people will dig it enough to preorder the first issue of the
Detroit-set continuation, Sword of My Mouth #1, at their local comic
shoppe.

Jim Munroe — the author of the wonderful anarcho-science-fiction novels Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, Angry Young Spaceman, Everyone in Silico and others; and a former managing editor of AdBusters — has a new novel out, whose premise is that it is the blog of the roommate of a demonness. — Read the rest

There are a pair of terrific events coming up next week at Modern Times Books in San Francisco's Mission district: on Dec 5 is David Rees, signing copies of his Get Your War On and on Dec 6, it's Jim Munroe, author of Everyone in Silico and Angry Young Spaceman. — Read the rest

My pal Jim Munroe's new novel, "Everyone in Silico," is out. Jim's a former editor at AdBusters, and his science fiction novels (FlyBoy Action Figure Comes with Gas-Mask, Angry Young Spaceman) are satirical political sf in the grand tradition of Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants. — Read the rest

My pal Jim Munroe and his buddy Sandy live across the street from each other in Toronto's Kensington Market. They have strung up a laundry-line between their apartments, and they're using it as a "semi-public art-space." They invite local artists to come and sit up in their apartments, and the guest artists create and pass works of art back and forth on the line with clothespegs. — Read the rest

I'm in the midst of couple of weeks' worth of lectures, public events and teaching, and you can catch me in Toronto (for Seeding Utopias and Resisting Dystopias and 6 Degrees); Newry, ME (Maine Library Association) and Portland, ME (in conversation with James Patrick Kelly).

Toronto 2033 is a shared-world science fiction anthology edited by the incomparable and multi-talented Jim Munroe (previously), where authors like Zainab Amadahy, Madeline Ashby, Al Donato, Kristyn Dunnion, Elyse Friedman, Paul Hong, Elan Mastai, Mari Ramsawakh, Karl Schroeder and Peter Watts were challenged to imagine a future for the city.

In 2001 I wrote an article for The Industry Standard about the Harlan Ellison's one man war against people uploading his short stories to Usenet. I interviewed him on the phone for the piece and the first thing he told me was, "I can't talk to you. — Read the rest

Filmmaker/writer/games developer Jim "Ghosts With Shit Jobs" Munroe (previously) has just launched his first VR venture. Manimal Sanctuary is a "lurking simulator" that "leverages low-end VR technology to enable every player's ultimate fantasy: to play a creature part coral reef, part Cthulhu, who consumes human emotions. — Read the rest

Indie sf movie kingpin Jim Munroe writes, "Ever wonder how the Hilton and the Marriott families feel about Airbnb? What would happen if the heir to a hotel chain empire gets fed up and decides to rebrand the sharing economy… as the scaring economy? — Read the rest

In the decade since publishing embraced ebooks in earnest, we've seen a cornucopia of exciting and innovative ways technology is being used to enhance reading. By utilizing all the tricks at our Internet- and device-savvy disposal, publishing companies are creating stories that are manifested in and influenced by the digital platform. — Read the rest

Wonderland is a wonderful idea for a game. It's an old-timey audio drama that lets you solve a puzzle at the and of each chapter—and if you can't, you can walk with your phone to get clues.

Hapheads, the incredible crowdfunded science fiction drama (previous) is about to get its NYC premiere at Games of Change, and to celebrate, the creators have put all 75 minutes of season one online as a single video, without interruptions.

Jim Munroe sez, "In our webseries set 10 years from now, teenagers have learned that shaving their hair at the haptic cable's point of contact allows them to overclock their game's tactile feedback. As well as boosting the signal and muscle memory retention, the shaved stripes become a subcultural indicator of sorts."

Jim Munroe writes, "We've put our science fiction visions of Toronto's future together in a 2015 calendar called FALLEN TORONTO as a new Kickstarter reward for backing our neo-noir sci-fi webseries HAPHEAD. If you live here you can shiver in nameless dread all the year round, and if you live elsewhere you can revel in schadenfreude at the fall of our socialist den of iniquity."

Haphead, the wonderful science fiction webseries about gamer culture that I wrote about in March, is kickstarting a budget for kick-ass post-production. It's from Jim Munroe, who made Ghosts With Shit Jobs.

Jamie from Vodo writes, "We've launched Otherworlds, our first indie
sci-fi bundle! This pay-what-you-want, crossmedia collection includes the
graphic novel collecting Cory's own 'Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now',
Jim Munroe's micro-budget sci-fi satire 'Ghosts With Shit Jobs',
Robert Venditti's New York
Times Bestselling graphic novel 'The Surrogates', and Amber Benson/Adam Busch's
alien office farce, 'Drones'. — Read the rest

One year ago today

Cory's HOW I WORK interview: What apps/software/tools can't you live without?

Ubuntu and the suite of GNU tools in any robust Unix system. A good text editor (currently Gedit)—I keep all of my working files at .txts. — Read the rest

Salgood Sam — who worked on great projects like Sea of Red and Therefore, Repent! sez, "In the last leg of a successful Kickstarter to print my next graphic novel, I've set up some unlockable interactive stretch goal rewards you might want to check out to help me make it to the west coast and print more books! — Read the rest