Al Robertson

@al_robertson
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SF, fantasy & horror author. Corporate clarifier. Author of #CrashingHeaven and #WakingHell. Tomorrow's folklore today.
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I'm having a big clear out, which includes getting rid of lots of old sunglasses. Am realising that I chose pretty much every pair ever on the basis that it'd be great to look like I was in the Velvet Underground in about 1967.
New Review - a very useful speculative non-fiction book I can recommend is Spec Fic For Newbies by Tiffani Angus and Val Duncan https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2023/8/27/spec-fic-for-newbies-by-tiffani-angus-and-val-duncan
Spec Fic for Newbies by Tiffani Angus and Val Duncan — Runalong The Shelves

Publisher – Luna Press Publishing Published – Out Now Price – £16.99 paperback £5.59 Kindle eBook Tiffani Angus (Ph.D.) and Val Nolan (Ph.D.) met at the 2009 Clarion Writers' Workshop in California and since then have collaborated many times as fans and scholars on panels for SFF conventio

Runalong The Shelves

A cracking post from Heather Burns on the relentless pushing of the Online "Safety" Bill, without it being fit for purpose.

https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/09/01/thats-no-moonshot/

#UKPol #OSB #OnlineSafetyBill

Every time you left a tooth for the tooth fairy, the tooth fairy crafted a new you out of that tooth.

They took the old you to work in the Dream Mines and left enough money for the new you to start a new life.

You are a tooth, dreaming you are a person. The real you is not yet free.

From brick builder Angus MacLane, if you recognise it, I think it'll make you smile. I certainly had a little giggle. 😁
Sharing the details of Simon Sellars'
astonishing Code Beast - properly feral SF, cyberpunk as a disease of language! Infect yourself now... https://wantonsun.com/product/code-beast/
#SimonSellars #CodeBeast #Cyberpunk #Ballardian #SciFi
Code Beast - Wanton Sun: Fear of a Bleak Planet

NOW AVAILABLE: Amazon US Amazon UK/Europe Amazon Australia Amazon Japan Barnes & Noble Apple Books (ebook only) The first stage is infection. Next is possession. The terminal stage is simulation. In the near future, Kalsari Jones is hooked on the Vexworld, a global mixed-reality network accessed through neural implants. As his addiction grows, he is plagued by sentient hallucinations and an urge to strip the flesh from his bones. At his lowest ebb, he must also face his latent digisexuality, an erotic attraction to artificial intelligence. Seeking answers, he meets Ingram Ravenscroft, a cult leader who claims a treatment for digisexuality. Smitten, Kalsari allows his brain to be rewired, only for the operation to leave him with unwanted telepathic powers. Lost in inner space, Kalsari angers a band of rogue AI who’ve escaped the Vexworld and are seeking refuge in the time-sinks of the fourth dimension. Battling the shapeshifting bots before they can enslave his mind, he discovers the shocking truth about his virtual obsessions—and Ravenscroft’s hidden role in the story of his life. ISBN: 978-0-6456543-1-8 Cover: Matthew Revert.

Wanton Sun: Fear of a Bleak Planet
“In relentlessly making noise that passes for signal, and undermining the means by which one can tell the difference, Generative AI promises to be an entropy engine.”
https://robhorning.substack.com/p/the-signal-of-compliance
The signal of compliance

“Messages are themselves a form of pattern and organization,” cyberneticist Norbert Wiener writes in The Human Use of Human Beings (1950). “Indeed, it is possible to treat sets of messages as having an entropy like sets of states of the external world. Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization … That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.”

Internal exile
Sometime in the 2000s, the combined members of This Too Shall Pass and Drift of Signifieds gathered for a collective exploration of sound and space in two parts. The results were recorded to 4-track cassette, copied to CDR and archived. Now they are back... on air at 20:00 UTC on www.repeater-radio.com on Sunday 5 March 2023.

Evidence of an owl hunting.

#MeanwhileInCanada

Torso of Venus, 1887 - Vincent van Gogh - WikiArt.org

‘Torso of Venus’ was created in 1887 by Vincent van Gogh in Realism style. Find more prominent pieces of sketch and study at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

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