The Victorian Hugos: 1891 SExpand For anybody curious, the title image may be from somebody's flickr... but it's a picture (or copy) of "The Picture of Dorian Grey" by Ivan Albright. I remember stumbling upon that painting at the Art Institute in Chicago. Quite jarring comparred to the other works that are hanging in the gallery.
Here Are the 1960s Science Fiction Novels Everyone Should Read Personally, I think it's an age thing, and society's evolving view of Nazis. The novel was published less than 20 years after WWII, and post-war nostalgia and pop culture was all about the US kicking some Nazi butt. Dick's alternate world where the Axis won was an interesting but unimaginable thought experiment for adults of the 60s. Then Vietnam happened, and war wasn't cool any more, and WWII was our parents war. So the media turned the Nazis into clowns and buffoons with Hogan's Heroes and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Then in the 90s we remembered the Holocaust, and Nazis weren't funny any more. Philip K.
Metropolis: A Rare Film Programme for Fraitz Lang's 1927 Masterpiece Original programme for the British premiere of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in 1927. The world’s most valuable movie poster, for Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece Metropolis, is to be auctioned again after making a record $690,000 in 2005. Ephemera related to the film is notoriously scarce, with only four copies of the poster known to survive. Below the fold you’ll find the complete booklet – just click any image for the high-res version: Watch Arthur C. Clarke predict the internet and the iPads decades before they were invented He was extraordinarily prescient with regard to comm tech, his specialty, but I don't think he got the social impact right. His claim that cities would dissolve because biz could be done anywhere is 180 degrees off. Cities are more important than ever as gathering places for people who need to interact, and in fact a higher proportion of people live in them than ever before. A lot of this is because of retirees, who are sick of having to drive everywhere and want rapid-response ambulance service, but a lot of it is straight-up business interaction.
Self Atomising Machines: Hypnagogic Cyberpunk, Reality and Utopia | the shape of utopia to come Welcome to Cyberia If hauntological music is rekindling (or hankering after) a utopian vision drawn from certain facets of English culture c.1950-1980, then what’s the utopian vision of its brash US cousin, hypnagogic pop? David Keenan (who coined the term) and Simon Reynolds both argue that hypnagogic pop takes its aesthetic cues from 80s pop and soft-rock (Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac- even Chris de Burgh) and New Age spirituality (Wyndham Hill Records, tie dye tshirts- even Enya), and they’re clearly onto something. But I reckon there’s another utopia/dystopia buried in the liminal zones of hypnagogia: cyberpunk. This is a hypnagogic vision a lot darker than that of Dolphins Into the Future, but perhaps also a whole lot more political… There’s reasonable hypothetical grounds to assume a link between cyberpunk and hypnagogic pop. Many William Gibsons: a still from 'Cyberpunk'. Many Timothy Learys The resonances are more than aesthetic, though. Life Temples? Michael Synergy in 'Cyberpunk' 1.
Ten Inventions Inspired by Science Fiction Known as the father of the modern submarine, American inventor Simon Lake had been captivated by the idea of undersea travel and exploration ever since he read Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in 1870. Lake’s innovations included ballast tanks, divers’ compartments and the periscope. His company built the Argonaut—the first submarine to operate successfully in the open ocean, in 1898—earning him a congratulatory note from Verne. Blade Runner cumple 30 años: curiosidades y vídeos de una obra irrepetible | Retrogeek Tres años después de rodar Alien, Ridley Scott estrenaría una de las películas claves en la historia de la ciencia ficción. Basada en la novela de Philip K. Dick ¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas mecánicas? y ambientada en la ciudad de Los Ángeles en el año 2019, nacía un filme cuya leyenda aún sigue vigente entre nosotros. Aunque desde ALT1040 hemos escrito infinidad de veces sobre la obra y su repercusión, esta entrada es un homenaje más a una fecha tan especial. Una historia cuyo comienzo decía así… A principios del siglo XXI, la poderosa Tyrell Corporation creó, gracias a los avances de la ingeniería genética, un robot llamado Nexus 6, un ser virtualmente idéntico al hombre pero superior a él en fuerza y agilidad, al que se dio el nombre de Replicante. Una de los puntos más destacados del filme es la composición de Vangelis. Con la reciente muerte de Moebius se fue uno de los grandes ilustradores de todos los tiempos. Para acabar este pequeño homenaje, tres vídeos.
211, William Gibson Get more interviews like this—plus fiction, poetry, art, and more—and subscribe to The Paris Review today! Vancouver, British Columbia, sits just on the far side of the American border, a green-glass model city set in the dish of the North Shore Mountains, which enclose the city and support, most days, a thick canopy of fog. There are periods in the year when it’ll rain for forty days, William Gibson tells me one mucky day there this winter, and when visibility drops so low you can’t see what’s coming at you from the nearest street corner. But large parts of Vancouver are traversed by trolley cars, and on clear nights you can gaze up at the wide expanse of Pacific sky through the haphazard grid of their electric wires. Gibson came to Vancouver in 1972, a twenty-four-year-old orphan who’d spent the past half-decade trawling the counterculture in Toronto on his wandering way from small-town southern Virginia. Pattern Recognition was the first of that series. —David Wallace-Wells No. E.
10 Futuristic Technologies That Will Never Exist I would very much like to read an article from you about the 'continuity of consciousness' problem. It is the only thing on your list that I can't imagine a way around. Well, i can, but i dip into gnostic spirituality for the theoretical bits, and i would like to see a more scientific based approach. The transition of neurons you mention in other replies sounds like a good start to me. ("An AI cannot be transmitted across a communication channel or computer network. Until i can get around the continuation of consciousness problem, transporters scare the bejeezuss out of me. Maybe we will end up going the yogi buddhist mystic route, of realizing that space and time are both illusions of our minds, and that we exist at all places and times at once already, and all we have to do is choose our location and make others suspend their disbelief against our being there. I'm sorry, I don't have enough scientific background, so I dip into fancy. I appreciate you posting this article.
William Gibson - Official Website AGRIPPA (A Book of The Dead) by William Gibson I hesitated before untying the bow that bound this book together. A black book: ALBUMS CA. A Kodak album of time-burned black construction paper The string he tied Has been unravelled by years and the dry weather of trunks Like a lady's shoestring from the First World War Its metal ferrules eaten by oxygen Until they resemble cigarette-ash Inside the cover he inscribed something in soft graphite Now lost Then his name W.F. Then he glued his Kodak prints down And wrote under them In chalk-like white pencil: "Papa's saw mill, Aug. 1919." A flat-roofed shack Against a mountain ridge In the foreground are tumbled boards and offcuts He must have smelled the pitch, In August The sweet hot reek Of the electric saw Biting into decades Daddy had a horse named Dixie "Ford on Dixie 1917" A saddle-blanket marked with a single star Corduroy jodhpurs A western saddle And a cloth cap Proud and happy As any boy could be "Moma and Mrs. laughing, in the mechanism.