Wading Through Treacle

Clare said that the Whale knew it was ill, and had come up the river to die. We should have left it in peace. The official story was that it...

My quip about seeing a book on string theory in the SF and fantasy section of W.H. Smith's at Heathrow was finally published on the New ...

1. Reviews written of James Gaines' book on J. S. Bach and Frederick the Great + The Rule of Three , by Jagdish Sheth and Rajendra Siso...

More on the subject of trans-humanism and the singularity. The community interested in this subject talk about uploading one's mind, or ...

In Iain Bank's 'Culture' books the somewhat smarter humans mostly seem to want to party, while the truly intelligent AI 'min...

I was going to post something about the 'singularity' . This is the idea, associated with Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil amongst othe...

In Greg Egan's book 'Axiomatics' , there is a story about someone who believes that there have to be other people who are so sim...

There was an interesting letter in The Economist this week (Dec 10-16 2005). Robert Dujarric from New York noted that the Iraqi war aims of ...

Seen today at the W. H. Smiths bookshop at Terminal 2, London Heathrow Airport. In the section: " Science Fiction and Horror " nex...

Just finished Michael Lockwood's book 'The Labyrinth of Time' . This explores how our common sense views of the past, present an...