A word on AI-generated content.Reader's Room: River of Teeth
Reader's Room features the week's most thought-provoking speculative fiction and nonfiction. This week I talk about alternate histories, snappy pitches, and what Sarah Gailey's new novel, River of Teeth has to do with them both. Oh, and that one time when America almost started wide-scale hippo ranching.
Show links:
- Sarah Gailey's River of Teeth
- American Hippopotamus, read or listen. (A much shorter summary at Wired.)
- Links
- NASA's Personal Rescue Enclosure
- The MOOSE (Man Out Of Space Easiest) personal reentry device
- 3D printed ovaries restore reproductive functions. (In mice.) (Scientific paper.)
- Google's AI/Artist collaboration. (Video)
Reader's Room: The View From Above
Reader's Room features the week's most thought-provoking speculative fiction and nonfiction. This week I talk about how astronauts see Earth, when and why to quit something in the middle, and Alistair Reynold's latest.
Show links:
- Jack Fisher's Tweet, wondering, from space.
- Alistair Reynolds' The Iron Tactician
- (Previous stories in this world are available in Zima Blue and/or The New Space Opera)
- Links
- Locus Award Finalists.
- Charles Stross's Atrocity Archives, on sale this week.
- Quantum Computing For The Mildly Curious.
Reader's Room: Positive Influences
Reader's Room ponders the week's most thought-provoking speculative fiction and nonfiction. This week we talk about the influence that science fiction has on science.
Show links:
- H. G. Wells's The World Set Free
- Astro Boy (AKA Mighty Atom)
- Tricorder X Prize
- Linkdump:
- Vernor Vinge's Fire Upon The Deep free this month.
- When an AI anticipates itself (video)
- Autonomous Robot Colonoscopies text
Reader's Room: Another Body
Reader's Room ponders the week's most thought-provoking speculative fiction and nonfiction. This week I share a story—a memoir, really, since it's true—about waking up in another body.
Linkdump:
- Kate Lechler's The Hulder’s Husband Says Don’t Flash fiction.
- The World's First nanocar race
- Japanese researchers 3D print scaffold-free ‘human mini-liver’
I'm Reading For You This Friday At the Writer's Block
This Friday (April 14th) the Writer's Block is holding their monthly EXPO, where local authors come and read for you. I'll be reading along with Geoff Carter, James Collins, Megan Edwards, and Sarah Haak, who are mighty fine people to share a stage with. I'll be reading something new, so if you're in town, come by and offer me cheers and jeers where appropriate. The readings are short and varied. I guarantee you won't get bored.
It's free, open to the public. (And there's usually wine, because Drew and Scott over at the Writer's Block are good people.) Location, time and more information.