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Revisiting “Neuromancer”

A younger friend of mine, who wasn’t around yet to experience cyberpunk when it was happening, bought himself a very nice, new release of the book with fantastic illustrations. I thought, “what the Hell? I’ll re-read “Neuromancer” with him; it will give us something to talk about.” Do you do that? Read books with your […]

“Three Hearts & Three Lions” and the antecedents of D&D

Diverging from tech subjects, I can’t really remember where I heard about Poul Anderson’s book “Three Hearts and Three Lions”. Somewhere it was recommended to me through some some hypertext rabbit hole that I ended up falling down. I managed to find a digital copy through my various means, and than it sat on my […]

George Dyson’s “Turing’s Cathedral”

Douglas Adams once famously observed: “I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five […]