Cori H. Spenzich reviewed Signal to Noise by Neil Gaiman
Review of 'Signal to Noise' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
"How do you make sense of your life? Signal to noise: what's a signal? What's noise?"
Signal to Noise is a story of a screenplay writer and film director that has his final and greatest work floating around in his head. The problem is, he is dying of cancer and may never be able to tell the story.
Life is full of tiny apocalypses, every person getting their own.
Great visuals created by Dave McKean, and great writing by Neil Gaiman. There are a few extras included in the book, outside of the compiled serial Signal to Noise, that are excellent too.
A note at the end says:
"Intertextual material was created with the assistance of a Canon Lasercopier 3000, and the Babble 2.0 text sampler programme."
The closest thing I could find to the Babble program: www.bgreco.net/babble/ -- which looks like a fun little tool to mess around with, …
"How do you make sense of your life? Signal to noise: what's a signal? What's noise?"
Signal to Noise is a story of a screenplay writer and film director that has his final and greatest work floating around in his head. The problem is, he is dying of cancer and may never be able to tell the story.
Life is full of tiny apocalypses, every person getting their own.
Great visuals created by Dave McKean, and great writing by Neil Gaiman. There are a few extras included in the book, outside of the compiled serial Signal to Noise, that are excellent too.
A note at the end says:
"Intertextual material was created with the assistance of a Canon Lasercopier 3000, and the Babble 2.0 text sampler programme."
The closest thing I could find to the Babble program: www.bgreco.net/babble/ -- which looks like a fun little tool to mess around with, and can conceptually generate similar results to what is seen throughout fragments of Signal to Noise.
