Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 128

H. G. Wells reviews the movie “Metropolis”

*Herbert doesn’t think much of sci-fi movies, which just aren’t up to the intellectual density of the books. I have recently seen the silliest film....

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European Science Fiction Society Hall of Fame Awards

Take it away, Locus magazine, to which I subscribe 2018 ESFS Awards Winners July 23, 2018 The European Science Fiction Society (ESFS) Hall of Fame...

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Nice shirt on the sick guy there

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Chairman Opik meets with Asgardian members of Parliament

*Asgardia being the independent post-national orbiting space satellite. Political news from Asgardia

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Weeknotes

*Hard to say, but maybe this habit would help some people. Diaries, productivity, fame, that sort of thing

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Phone-smuggling in American prisons

*That seems like rather a lot of activity. Especially from people who are already in the physical control of the authorities. If you can’t find...

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Augmented Reality controlling robots

*It’s pretty nifty, eh? Just kinda simple. IEEE Spectrum

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Augmented Reality: robot rat brains

*I post this, not because it’s augmented reality, but because it’s a *rival* to Augmented Reality. Its a way to do SLAM without doing any...

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Thomas Pynchon writing about Donald Barthelme

*Well, I read it all. It was coming across pretty Barthelme. “Thomas Pynchon is the author of nine books, including Gravity’s Rainbow and V.” A...

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Alain Damasio and the occupiers

*He’s quite an interesting fellow. You’ll have to translate this from French to figure out what this notable French science fiction writer has been up...

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