How are philosophers and physicists alike?
They each think they’re working with the source code of the universe while everyone else is just clicking on pretty icons.
How are philosophers and physicists different?
The philosophers are right.
Tag Archives | Science Fiction
Hiro For Hire
Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash is being adapted into a film.
This will arguably be the second feature based on the book, the first being the reality show we are currently living in.
Two Tales Terminating Tragically
More juvenilia: “The Tragic Affair of the Serpentine Bridge” (short story co-authored with my mother, 1973) and “Second Choice Pet” (essay, 1977).
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury
A hauntingly beautiful writer.
Three great pieces on Bradbury (here, here, and here) by Neil Gaiman.
Also a few political quotes (some good, some not so good) from Bradbury here.
I Live In an Oily Basement, I Hear Voices, and All I Want Is To Take Children For Rides
More juvenilia from the cutting edge of imaginative literature: The Christmas Tree (short story, age 8); Green Fire (short story, age 9); and Why English Is Important In the World Today (essay, age 10).
The Kingdom of the Fish
Within the kingdom of the fish
the fisher-king is king
his hooks, his lures bring surcease sweet
to those who sway beneath his sway
and at his plate sublimely meet
the tines, the teeth, the palate grey
the finless flay, the stingless sting
Within the kingdom of the fish
the fisher-king is strong
each darting shape among the reeds
dreams dreamless dreams of silvered halls
where throned and robed her sovran feeds
as twilight after twilight falls
and long they wait, and long
Yet in the kingdom of the fish
the consummation tarries
no trident spears, no net enfolds
as slumb’ring sleepless in our crèche
the like grip gripless our need holds
for ’gainst our citadel of flesh
no host invests, nor harries