Charlie Stross talks the future

Charles Stross has posted the entire text of a recent speech about futurology in which he discusses how incredibly difficult it is to predict that future.
I have a sneaking feeling that some of this stuff will come into Halting State, his next novel which he mentions towards the end of the first episode of Grummellings.
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Jim Baen short story winner

Mike Wood has won the first annual Jim Baen Memorial Short Story contest. The story will be published in Jim Baen’s Universe magazine and centres around a girl born on a starship and the implications that arise.
Toni Weisskopf of Baen books commented “I was also favorably impressed by the positive spirit toward space science and […]

New Tintin movie?

According to an article on the BBC, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg have struck a deal for three Tintin movies. Given the fanboyishness of both directors, I actually have hope that they might pull something decent off. I’d be very interested to know whether they are going to cover some of the graphic novelsĀ or create […]