A word on AI-generated content.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’
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