Buy a rocket belt, solar system shipping routes, Google Will Eat Itself…

• 1 – Rocket Belts For Sale

  “For a mere £130,000, you can have your very own Rocket Belt from Mexican company, TAM, which will allow you to shuffle off the confines of gravity and buzz around your local park, scaring dogs and children alike.”

  (tags: flight pack belt rocket technology novelty futurism sf scifi fiction science)

• 2 – Second Life Sketches: Happy Talk

  “It’ll be a terrible thing, to be old in a new world, living on Name Of The Rose Island and being sexually assaulted in the night by monks with Care Bear bodies and Sean Connery’s head.” Warren Ellis from Second Life.

  (tags: Ellis Warren journalism reportage metaverse Life Second)

• 3 – Solar System Shipping Routes

  “A team of researchers from MIT have created a software tool called SpaceNet that models this interplanetary supply chain.” Very cool, and a great tool for near-future space sf.

  (tags: shipping goods logistics tool model chain supply interplanetary exploitation exploration space)

• 4 – David I. Masson: Some Thoughts on Language in Science Fiction

  An essay from 1969, via A. R. Yngve.

  (tags: essay criticism writing language literature sf scifi fiction science)

• 5 – Invade Mars, Kill Their Leaders, and Convert Them to Edison

  “This gloomy message apparently sat ill with American writer Garrett Serviss, who in the following year penned an unauthorised sequel titled ‘Edison’s Conquest of Mars’…” Bookmark this blog now; this guy is good.

  (tags: invasion Mars Edison Serviss sequel Worlds War Wells sf scifi fiction science)

• 6 – Call for Support: Link to Google Will Eat Itself

  “Google Will Eat Itself generates money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites.” Some interesting anti-digi-capitalist activism, via Captain Sterling.

  (tags: weird business concept protest activism anticorporate digital internbet Itself Eat Will Google GWEI)

• 7 – M1 friday

  “Run north beside the towering boxes of brand new trucks like mobile mission statements in the night.” This shows why M. John Harrison writes such awesome fiction. He breathes beautiful prose.

  (tags: vision emotion power language Harrison notes prose fiction writing)

• 8 – Science Fiction and the City

  “I have said many times before on this blog that contemporary architecture could learn quite a lot from the spatial and material imaginations on display in both film and science fiction…” One reason you should subscribe to BLDGBLOG.

  (tags: future urban sf scifi fiction science illustration futurism cities design architecture)

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