Artist Showcase
Artist Spotlight: Angel Alonso
Light, shadows, and atmosphere are all part of my essential work. I don’t like all the cold and artificial images that some artists are creating with the computer.
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Keeping the Dead Among the Living
If there really is, as the saying goes, more than one way to skin a cat, then it only stands to reason that there’d be more than one way to preserve its remains.
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Author Spotlight: John Crowley
Charlie is in effect visiting the underworld, and trying to rescue Georgie. At bottom this is an Orpheus/Eurydice story of someone (a poet!) going under the earth to bring back a dead love, and failing.
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Back to the Future: Smart Houses, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence
Striking a balance between retaining the human elements of what makes a house a home, and the false convenience of machine-run everything may decide the physical fate of the human race.
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Author Spotlight: Mark Pantoja
The one thing we as humans consistently show is that we’re survivors. We have yet to wipe ourselves off this planet once and for all, and I don’t think that’s an accident.
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Interview: China Miéville
For me the book is not so much about actually existing linguistics necessarily so much as it is to do with a certain kind of more abstract kind of philosophy of language of symbols, and of semiotics, and indeed some of this crosses over into theological debates.
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Author Spotlight: Maureen F. McHugh
I suspect that after this Sydney decides that she’s an iconoclast and busily works to make herself into that. I do not think this has positive ramifications for her social life.
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Planetary Alchemy
Some time in the future we might decide we need that dusty red real estate. And if we’re going to live there permanently we might want to make some changes so we can travel around safely.
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Author Spotlight: Lisa Nohealani Morton
As far as the “creation myth” side of the story goes, it basically hit me as a concept without a story attached—just the idea that someone ought to write a creation myth about Martian terraforming.
Artist Showcase
Artist Spotlight: Elena Bespalova
My art is influenced by Japanese animation to some degree. I still like anime a lot and I watch it when I have free time. I think that anime have a great graphic style and often as not their plots have unusual twists.
