Daniel Rourke /stream

Bookmark Heaven for Atheists
It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments
Bookmark First ever direct English translation of Solaris published
The first ever direct translation into English of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel, Solaris, has just been published, removing a raft of unnecessary changes and restoring…

June 16 2011, 3:07pm | Comments
Bookmark Flash Symposium at Birkbeck, 24th May 2011
Ideal for the commute, the lunch-hour, the stolen moment: shortness necessitates the perfect user-friendly format, arguably suited to the fast paced nature of everyday contemporary urban living. At the same time…

May 17 2011, 2:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Loving the Ghost in the Machine: Aesthetics of Interruption
In science fiction, ghosts in machines always appear as malfunctions, glitches, interruptions in the normal flow of things. Something unexpected appears seemingly out of nothing and from nowhere. Through a malfunction,…

April 9 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Bookmark R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay
R. Gerald Nelson’s DDDDoomed essay has been making the rounds lately and it sparked a healthy amount of curiosity and note-taking on my part that I felt I wanted to share…

March 15 2011, 7:59am | Comments
Bookmark Prop Theory in a Nutshell
Any time we interact with a representative art work – be it a painting, a sculpture, a song, a novel, a comic, a play, a film, or a game – it…

March 10 2011, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark Hawking contra Philosophy
Professor Hawking has probably been talking to the wrong philosophers, or picked up some wrong ideas about the kinds of discussion that currently go on in philosophy of science. His lofty…

February 19 2011, 5:31am | Comments
Bookmark When new narratives meet old brains
We're hard-wired to turn our lives into stories - how will we cope with the dizzying digital fictions of the future, ask John Bickle and Sean Keating "We are our narratives"…

November 25 2010, 8:29am | Comments
Bookmark Six scientists tell us about the most accurate science fiction in their…
What do scientists think about seeing their fields of research pulverized by science fiction? We asked researchers from diverse fields to tell us whether any science fiction gets it right. Several…

September 23 2010, 5:07am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's Errors

September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments
Tumblr SpaceCollective Project - Designing Science Fiction Scenarios

September 4 2010, 8:18am | Comments
Bookmark Reclaiming the Imagination
Imagine being a slave in ancient Rome. Now remember being one. The second task, unlike the first, is crazy. If, as I’m guessing, you never were a slave in ancient Rome,…

August 18 2010, 2:12am | Comments
Bookmark The Mind's I
Now available for free online: The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul (ISBN 0-553-34584-2) is a 1981 book composed and arranged by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C.…

August 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments
Projects io9.com: Seeing the truth of the world via science fiction

August 10 2010, 4:10am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily 'The Thing Itself' : A Sci-Fi Archaeology

August 8 2010, 9:05pm | Comments
Bookmark The Struggle for the (Possible) Soul of David Eagleman
There’s a struggle inside the brain of David Eagleman for the soul of David Eagleman. That is, there might be such a struggle if Eagleman’s brain believed that Eagleman had a…

July 25 2010, 7:36am | Comments
Bookmark Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard
Writers have long been fascinated by machinery – what it gives and what it takes away. Tom McCarthy, whose experimental work has been hailed as the future of fiction, charts literature's…

July 25 2010, 7:13am | Comments
Bookmark Analogue Inception
The structure of the film is that of a heist movie, but if the film were to be slotted into a genre, that genre would have to be science fiction. Personally,…

July 18 2010, 6:07am | Comments
Bookmark Who Goes There by John W. Campbell
Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart, published August 1938 in Astounding Stories. In 1973, the story was…

July 16 2010, 3:46am | Comments
Wikipedia Thing - Wikipedia Thing may refer to: In philosophy: * An object (philosophy), being, or entity * Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant In history: * Thing (assembly), also transliterated as ting or þing, a historical Germanic governing…

July 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Diatribe from the Remains of Dr. Fred McCabe

July 11 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why Novels are a Weird…
While mainstream literary figures sometimes praise their fellow writers, rarely do they present themselves publicly as hardcore pop culture fans. Since the publication of his novels Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of…

June 27 2010, 10:21am | Comments
Bookmark Beware, your imagination leaves digital traces
by Bruno Latour ’Who would know how to love without having read novels?” This saying seems to take on a new meaning with the multiplication of virtual worlds, even though the…

May 19 2010, 7:18am | Comments
Bookmark Why science fiction matters for people who don’t read science fiction
Science fiction dates as quickly as any genre, and Bradbury is not entirely immune to this. The futuristic rocket ships he wrote about in 1950 look a lot like the first-generation…

May 16 2010, 4:34pm | Comments
Bookmark Astral Weeks: An unexpected, and welcome, DeLillo discovery
In Don DeLillo's latest novel, the weirdly exciting "Point Omega," a character is "trying to read science fiction but nothing she'd read so far could begin to match ordinary life on…

May 16 2010, 4:33pm | Comments
Bookmark Game Design as Make-Believe (4): Fictional Worlds
When one plays most videogames there is a tacit understanding that one is entering into a fictional world – the term virtual world, is often deployed to mean exactly this. It…

May 12 2010, 3:28pm | Comments
Bookmark Zombie Renaissance
Zombies are “characters” in the sense recently revived by the critic Aaron Kunin—they are a type whose existence extends beyond any one work or even medium. This is why we can…

May 1 2010, 9:44am | Comments
Bookmark Next Big Thing - Literary Scholars Turn to Science
This layered process of figuring out what someone else is thinking — of mind reading — is both a common literary device and an essential survival skill. Why human beings are…

April 6 2010, 12:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Is "Science Fiction Humanism" A Contradiction In Terms?
People talk about science fiction as the literature of humanism. But actually, science fiction's explorations put it into conflict with humanism's tenets. The best science fiction questions the nature of humanity,…

March 10 2010, 9:54am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

February 21 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox
When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction titan:…

January 24 2010, 5:06pm | Comments
Portfolio Speaking about Ants, Superman and Centaurs

November 23 2009, 8:29am | Comments

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