Charles Bukowski. Isaac Asimov. Hunter S. Thompson. Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, to a middle-class family, Thompson had a turbulent youth after the death of his father left the family in poverty. He was unable to formally finish high school as he was incarcerated for 60 days after abetting a robbery. He subsequently joined the United States Air Force before moving into journalism. Aldous Huxley.
Aldous Leonard Huxley /ˈhʌksli/ (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family.
He was best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian London, and for non-fiction books, such as The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, and a wide-ranging output of essays. Early in his career Huxley edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories and poetry. Mid career and later, he published travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the US, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. William Gibson. NODE. Node. Node Magazine: The Next Phase WARNING!
This blog is SPOILER-HEAVY! If this is your first visit, you may want to start at the beginning. Thanks for taking the time to visit the blog that University College London professor / Guardian UK ciritic called “the future of literary criticism” and scifi legend William Gibson described as “cheap A.I.” and “completely original.” To learn more about the latest developments in the world of Spook Country and prepare for Gibson’s next novel Zero History, please visit nodemagazine.com. Thanks! Node 1, 2, 3… Memetic Engineer has now created a secret subsite annotating the Node tumblog in chronological order [a much more accessible method, especially for newcomers].
Patternboy interviews cyberpunk legend William Gibson during a noisy boksigning at the Boulder Bookstore asking, “What question do you wish more people were asking?” Zero History. Several characters in Zero History e.g.
Milgrim and Heidi, take journeys on the London Underground Tube system. Here is an image of a Transport for London Oyster Card - prepaid London Underground Tube and Bus travel card (but also a RFID / centralised database tracking and surveillance system) signed by William Gibson, at Forbidden Plant, London, Saturday 9th October 2010, To protect your privacy and personal security from 13.56 MHz licence free Industrial Scientific Medical radio frequency band snoopers (both legal and illegal). You can disable the passive radio tracking behaviour of these cards by simply lining their plastic wallets, with some aluminium cooking foil. which stops the embedded antenna loop from powering up the microchip.
The same sort of protection is also needed for RFID "biometric" Passports. There is also the practical issue of preventing accidental deductions of money from your Oyster card, by maladjusted or poorly maintained or hacked Card Readers. Speculative fiction. History[edit] In mythography the concept of speculative fiction has been termed "mythopoesis" or mythopoeia, "fictional speculation", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J.R.R.
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.[9] Such supernatural, alternate history and sexuality themes continue in works produced within the modern speculative fiction genre.[10] Charles Addams. Charles Samuel "Chas" Addams[2] (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters.
Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, have been the basis for spin-offs in several other media. Biography[edit] Life[edit] Charles Samuel Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey, the son of Grace M. and Charles Huy Addams, a piano-company executive who had studied to be an architect.[3] He was known as "something of a rascal around the neighborhood" as childhood friends recalled.[4] Addams was distantly related to U.S. presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, despite the different spellings of their last names, and was a first cousin twice removed to noted social reformer Jane Addams.[4][5] A house on Elm Street, and another on Dudley Avenue that police once caught him breaking into, are said to be the inspiration for the Addams Family mansion in his cartoons.
Anne McCaffrey. Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011)[1][2] was an American-born Irish writer, best known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series.
Early in McCaffrey's 46-year career as a writer, she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction and the first to win a Nebula Award. Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction.[3][4] She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006.[5][6][7] Life and career[edit] In 1950 she married Horace Wright Johnson (died 2009),[13] who shared her interests in music, opera and ballet.