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By Jim on September 3, 2010
It was a small memorial, only two to witness the laying of the casket into the ground. “So long, Jack. We hardly knew you,” one said. The other quirked up an eyebrow. “That’s it?” he asked. There was a note of amused incredulity in his voice. “What’d you expect?” A ghost of a smile. “This [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged burial, death, science fiction, scifi |
By Jim on August 30, 2010
NASA’s dizzying concept art imagines ribbons of farmland in space. I’d live in one of these habitats.
Posted in Asides | Tagged NASA, science fiction, space |
By Jim on July 15, 2010
The LXD. The League of Extraordinary Dancers. At first glance it sounds like it might be pretty corny, right? Wrong. This is an amazing and ambitious new webseries that puts a wholly new spin on the superhero genre where the power of dance can be used for great good, horrendous evil, or anything in between. [...]
Posted in General | Tagged art, dance, science fiction, superheroes, The LXD
By Jim on March 19, 2010
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded) » Guilty. This is… unfortunate. For what it’s worth, I tend to side with Dr. Watts. I’ve always had a problem with the customs process for crossing between the US and Canada. It’s been my experience that the guards there tend to be somewhat over-reactive about relative [...]
Posted in General | Tagged authors, law, Peter Watts, politics, science fiction, speculative fiction
By Jim on March 2, 2010
The bag of chips was all but empty, just a few crumbs left in the bottom. He shook the bag, bouncing it in his hand, so that the niblets would fall together in the corner. There were so few left – and he wasn’t one to waste anything – so he tilted the bag to [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged science fiction
By Jim on March 2, 2010
//BEGIN TRANSMISSION SEARCH ‘DRAGONFLY’ AGGREGATION BEGINS IN 3… 2… 1… ACCESSING NEWSNET COLLATING FEEDS NeuroSoft Corp Releases New Gaming Console New Chicago, Robaxian (AIP) – Interplanetary neuroware giant NeuroSoft Corp announced earlier today the release of their newest gaming console, dubbed the Dragonfly Entertainment System. The Dragonfly features state-of-the-art hardware, allowing it to achieve unprecedented [...]
Posted in Stories | Tagged humor, science fiction |
