I think this looks AWESOME. It's got a bit of a steampunk aesthetic to it, but reminds me a lot more of a twisted Alice in Wonderland kind of deal. I had no idea this was even coming out until now!

I *loved loved loved* Aurorarama! One of THE best books I've read all year. It reminded me greatly of Jeffrey Ford's Physiognomy novels, though with its own wonderfully convoluted mythos. The Arctic Kangaroo ruled, too.

Huh? No Space Marines? C'mon—body armor doesn't get much cooler than Mark IV Terminator plate!

Google Reveals Googleplex Has Been Self-Aware Since 2021.

That pic of Brown Jenkin is THE scariest depiction of that little rat bastard I've ever seen.

Ms. Valente is right: if you go through a portal to an awesome world and then immediately turn back, YOU ARE AN IDIOT. If I walked through a portal to a world full of daemonic bellydancers and tentacled gods, my ass would *never* be seen again!

I love this series so much. It's not only hysterical, it's well-drawn *and* clearly demonstrates that its author really knows what he's writing about!

Time to dust off the grey goo assemblery....

I LOVED LOVED LOVED The Green Slime when I was a kid! Such a fun movie. It combined everything I loved as a child: rubber monsters, bubbling green ooze, rocketships, and surf-rock music.

HOLY. SHIT. Is it just me, or do the really big aliens look like 'borged Cthulhus?

I would much, much rather live in ANY corporate dystopia than some feminist eco-wanker's agrarian Amish utopia.

The posthuman future (a.k.a. the age of the Fourth Mentality) belongs to networked intelligence. In fact, I'm beginning to think it more likely that networked human intelligence will fuel the next Singularity more than Digital Intelligence will.

@anuran001: Yep...and I *really* wasn't very impressed by 90% of the book. See, it's technically IMPOSSIBLE to be "Lovecraftian" without leaning to the lavender, verbose side stylistically or—more importantly—eliminating tentacular beings and all manner of other creepiness. The ONLY story in the book that truly worked…

Hmmm. You know, I'm actually beginning to think this might pan out pretty nicely.

Oh, man—I LOVED the Unarians when I first discovered them in the late '90s. Somebody actually converted a bunch of their videos to RealPlayer format and posted 'em to his Geocities page. It was revelatory!

Sadly, what happened to horror is quite simple: by the early 1990s the market was utterly glutted with thousands upon thousands of hack-work horror novels, most of which were virtually indistinguishable from one another. Now, that kind of formulaic writing works for some audiences—romance, for instance, or fantasy—but…

@forsinain42: HA! Yeah...I kinda got a lictor vibe there myself.

Wow. That was AWESOME! I think my wang actually grew a few millimeters while watching that. I literally cannot wait to see the whole film.

I remember *loving* this book when I read it back in highschool. I need to dig it up and give it a run-through now that I'm older and a billion times more cynical and bitter.

Why terraform baryonic-matter worlds when you can grind them down to the quark level, reassemble them as vast matrioshka clouds of computronium around stable, long-lived stars and recreate damnear *infinite* iterations and reiterations of past eras?