Yatterings

Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing has a new link to Henry Jenkins’s awesome blog about his recent comics talk. This is being posted in four parts and part one is fairly heavy on Gibson and Sterling. It’s one of those rare posts that is both academic and illuminated.
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Charlies Stross has a great essay on the impossibility of one of sf’s great dreams - colonising space. Whilst Stephen Hawking has said that this is fundamental to the survival of the race, the practicalities make it impossible.
As ever Stross is clear and persuasive.
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