HIGHWAY 62

We'll start briefly in the past, since we're talking about BLADE RUNNER. Set in 2019 as imagined from 1982, the film is a portmanteau of the past and present and future, so much so that it broke science fiction and became the genre film that academics talked about from the period (well that and ALIEN, for a similar set of reasons.) It is, for good and for ill, an iconic motion picture, one that became a template for a kind of imagination of the future. It is also hopelessly i

That's a mouthful, huh? So, let's consider the following, as posted by William Gibson on Twitter earlier this week. "Technology now enables the creation of imaginary worlds so detailed that viewers aren't allowed to be co-creators in some previous sense." An interesting proposition, given the detail creep that's been inescapable as digital technology (both software sophisitication and hardware power) has become more and more the cornerstone of our entertainments. And I know a

This will not be here for too long. THROUGH THE LIMBS by Matt Maxwell maxwellm@pobox.com for Tim Maughan, who provided the germ "The Qloud tastes like suicide," Raisha said to the auditor, who was as pale as anyone she had ever seen. The only spot of color on her were her lashes, which had been grafted on and twisted, painted bright blue like coral polyps at the ends of her eyelids. Even her irises were colorless. She tried to let the moment flex and waited for the other audi

Note that this was written last...Thursday? I've spent the time between then and now deciding on a host and going with Wix because simple and flexible and I have to do even less work than I did with Wordpress and I'm all about doing less work whenever I can. --- So things got strange this week. Oh, this has nothing to do with anything in news or politics. That's all strange now and it's going to be permanently strange. This has to do with fictions and outposts, no maps for th

Seriously folks. It's not ready yet. Don't even look here. I put the cheat codes somewhere else.