Walter Scott's review of Frankenstein gives a nice sense of the emerging consciousness of something like science fiction as a particular class of storytelling.

Tell it to John Donne. Also: yay, women in computer science.

Thanks Swenson! I must have been only seven or eight the first time I played Zork and I never stopped hoping I would find ancient tunnel system under my neighborhood.

When I was writing Soon I Will Be Invincible I mostly had Jonathan Lethem's book Fortress of Solitude in mind - I'm always surprised people don't remember that book more.

Does anyone else feel like they're listening to the System Shock soundtrack?

@cletar: I so much wish I could talk about what's going on with the Invincible movie. It's definitely being worked on. #bookvortex