Links for 22-03-2007
Gary Gibson goes hardback, flying trike, Tesla profile, classic con speech from Christopher Priest…
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1 – THE MOSQUE OF CHEBI– AND MUSLIMS IN SECOND LIFE
“Defining my experience and perspective of SL as a Muslim, compared to other perspectives, is something I would approach cautiously.” Intriguing.
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2 – Geotagging Gets Tiny, Fast, Cheap
“This sounds so good it almost seems like vaporware, but the idea behind the SnapSpot chip is deceptively simple: get something else to do all the hard work later.”
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“Find your way to an airstrip (or a long straight piece of road), and a tail pops out, rotors unfold, and off you go, climbing up to 4,000 feet [...] at speeds of up to 200 kph.” It’ll never work as a business plan, but I want one anyway.
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4 – The Electric Wizard – a profile of Nikola Tesla
“Were we to seize and eliminate from our industrial world the results of Mr Tesla’s work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric cars and trains would stop, our towns would be dark, our mills would be dead and idle…”
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5 – E-books are beginning to tempt me
“And that’s something [Neil Williamson] never thought [he]‘d say.”
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6 – Meetings With Remarkable Men (Christopher Priest)
“This talk was first delivered at Novacon 9, in November 1979, and is reprinted from Vector 98, June 1980.” It says important things about sf that still mean a lot now – if not more.
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7 – U.K.’s Interzone Celebrates 25th
“An ideal Interzone story combines a strong modern sensibility with quality prose, using both style and substance to deliver a thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking reading experience.” Andy Cox interviewed.
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8 – Some good news from (and for) Gary Gibson:
“…my editor, Peter Lavery, down at Pan MacMillan, has swung me a hardback release for Stealing Light. Now I know he likes it.”
March 6th, 2009 at 8:28 am
A tiny point of pedantry: Chris Priest’s speech “Meetings with Remarkable Men” was first published in my and Kevin Smith’s =Drilkjis= 5 (March 1980) and reprinted in the June =Vector= (which Kevin also edited).
http://ansible.co.uk/misc/drilkjis.html