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Leslie Michael Orchard
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Hacking del.Icio.Us
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Hacking RSS and Atom
— published 2005 |
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The Concise Guide to Dojo
— published 2008 |
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For a zombie book, this story features remarkably few zombies. Instead what it features is what American politics and journalism look like after the zombie apocalypse has been survived and civilization has been reassembled as well as it can be. I'm no...more |
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| If there's any justice in the world, this book will be made into a movie. I'm not saying it's the best book ever, but it's the best plot for a crime thriller I've heard in a long long time. I hate police procedurals. But, I love Warren Ellis. This bo...more | |
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| Earth continues to go to hell, starting to drag Mars with it. Independence and revolution on the horizon. Meanwhile, the First Hundred start to push 150 years old, and living in their heads through the POV-switching narrative demonstrates the novelty...more | |
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“Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn’t exist at all: awareness. Nothing more than that. Just awareness—a vague, ethereal sense of being. Being . . . but not becoming. No marking of time, no past or future—only an endless, featureless now, and, just barely there in that boundless moment, inchoate and raw, the dawning of perception . . .”
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Wake
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Wake
“And Wolfram knows about cellular automata?” “Oh, my goodness, yes,” said Anna. “He wrote a book you could kill a man with—twelve hundred pages—called A New Kind of Science. It’s all about them.” “We should totally ask him what he thinks!” Caitlin said.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Wake
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Wake
“The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Wake
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Wake
“He had a collection of science-fiction films on DVD and Blu-ray discs, and although he said he’d seen most of them before, Caitlin was surprised to discover how many of the cases were still shrink-wrapped. “Why’d you buy them if you weren’t going to watch them?” she asked. He looked at the tall, thin cabinets that contained the movies and seemed to ponder the question. “My childhood was on sale,” he said at last, “so I bought it.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Watch
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Watch
“Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and bears would make short work of tyrannosaurs.” She nodded at Schrödinger, who was now padding across the floor in the opposite direction. “Big cats, too. They’re faster, tougher, and brighter than anything that existed seventy million years ago. Everything is always ramping up, always escalating.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Watch
― Robert J. Sawyer, WWW: Watch






















