Researcher in the streets, sleepless in the sheets. Video games pay my mortgage.
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33% complete! Lucas has read 18 of 53 books.
Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider …
There's a lot of Running Dog that moves because of desire and acquisitiveness, but its last third is more about showing this all to be a weird, self-referential way of holding yourself up against the inevitability of death? Consumerism and sex and conspiracy all ways to make a second self that is humble and domesticated and liked by others, that can inhabit the same body shooting downward into oblivion (and sometimes taking as many others as it can along with it).
Dunno if I liked it, but it was interesting. DeLillo's novels now more, uh, samey? consonant? with one another to me.
Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986. It is the second …
"When technology reaches a certain level, people begin to feel like criminals," he said. "Someone is after you, the computers maybe, the machine-police. You can't escape investigation. The facts about you and your whole existence have been collected or are being collected. Banks, insurance companies, credit organizations, tax examiners, passport offices, reporting services, police agencies, intelligence gatherers. It's a little like what I was saying before. Devices make us pliant. If they issue a print-out saying we're guilty, then we're guilty. But it goes even deeper, doesn't it? It's the presence alone, the very fact, the superabundance of technology, that makes us feel we're committing crimes. Just the fact that these things exist at this widespread level. The processing machines, the scanners, the sorters. That's enough to make us feel like criminals. What enormous weight, What complex programs. And there's no one to explain it to us."
— Running Dog by Don DeLillo (Page 95)
Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986. It is the second …
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th …
Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986. It is the second …
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works …
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on …
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting …
Finally found time together to put this one to bed.
