Category Archives: science/fiction

History of Science Fiction

I’m on my way to PAX East! I hope to see you there, but if not, at least you can entertain yourself by maximizing your window size, then clicking on the mass of organs above that represent the history of fantastic fiction, starting with mythology and ending up in the realm of Kim Stanley Robinson, [...]

Size

I’ve seen a couple of videos of this now, but this one uses the soundtrack of The Black Hole and Blade Runner. The choice was obvious. Human Contact contains a similar exercise that runs in the margin through the whole book.

More discussion of scale

A video called Scale by Brad Goodspeed gives us another view of the scale of our cosmic neighbors in a different way than Human Contact does.

Some Fine Gentlemen Play A Friendly Game

Alex Drummond just sent me this sketch of some fine, respectable gentlemen playing a friendly game of Kodrek. He also sent me some earlier roughs: Gotta say, I’m pretty excited. I’m doing preliminary flows of the text of the game into an InDesign file right now. I sure wish style importing was more smarter.

Good Morning Cyboys and Cybergirls!

Augmented reality promises to become the greatest, and perhaps most intellectually perilous, information technology ever.

Wave of Reason

OK, This Is The Point Where Things Get Weird

This is a Playstation game that uses your actual environment as a place to hide digital game pieces. You interact with them by doing stuff in the real world. The Shock:Shirts I just had printed do a little bit of this in the opposite direction: they give a URL to your phone via QR code, [...]

OK, Seriously, NOW It’s The Future.

That’s right. Robots guarding nuclear waste. What is this, the Future? (Thanks Renato and Vasco!)

Augmenting Reality To Make It Less Commercial

Unlogo Intro from Jeff Crouse on Vimeo. Now, imagine that you’ve got this running in your glasses. Edit: This project is up on Kickstarter!

Marain — the Alphabet of the Culture

Look what Daniel Solis did! It’s a font of the brush version of Marain, the language used by The Culture! This is what Marain looks like when it’s not brushed: I’m particularly excited about this as I’m working on the Languages chapter of Human Contact right now. I’ve got all the parts for Kepho-Rn, the [...]