“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, [...]
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Where were you, when the bombs fell?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Nothing gets me going like the apocalypse. The gritty struggle for survival, nomadic raiders riding around on motorcycles and ATVs, the way humanity turns against itself in a sort of societal autoimmune disorder… “After the bomb” (or any kind of devastation, really) is truly my favorite setting in fiction.
The apocalypse is usually portrayed as a [...]