Cool: June 2004 Archives
You wait how many years and two turn up at once. Not only is the film version due but also BBC Radio 4 have announced brand new adaptations of the last three books (Life, The Universe And Everything, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish and Mostly Harmless). You can hear a preview at the site (RealMedia unfortunately).[Via SFCrowsnest (although I'm reluctant to link to them because they never link to anyone else... still it's good karma so I will)]
What do you get if you cross Star Wars with Reservoir dogs? Songs like Stuck In A Room With Artoo and a film called Imperial Dogs [Via BoingBoing]
Nanotechnology pioneer slays 'grey goo' myths (EurekAlert - Social/Behavior):"Eric Drexler, known as the father of nanotechnology, today (Wednesday, 9th June 2004) publishes a paper that admits that self-replicating machines are not vital for large-scale molecular manufacture, and that nanotechnology-based fabrication can be thoroughly non-biological and inherently safe."
But he's only just decided that? Read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson for hyper nano sci-fi wonder.
But he's only just decided that? Read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson for hyper nano sci-fi wonder.
I continue to be impressed by John over at SFSignal. Not only is he reading loads of science fiction this year but he also creates impressive stats of what he has read. Oh to have the time (or the ability to make the time). In a crazy attempt to read more books with spaceships in them last week I got Spaceman PiggyWiggy out of the library for my son. He liked it but it didn't really stretch me with its ideas. For example PiggyWiggy acknowledged that things would float in space and that it would be hard to eat but then he didn't really expand on the other plusses and minuses of zero gravity. Shame it could have been wonderful Sci-Fi.
