So, Muse walks onto the trading floor and has an analogy…
I had this idea: A traditional Dyson sphere, what most of us singularity-as-a-setting writers now call matrioshka spheres (poor Dyson, to be remembered for the bad SFnal version), where lots and lots of little solar-powered polises live in huge cloud-like orbits around the sun. Gazillions of human analogues live in these things and 99.99% [...]
The current economic crisis as failed singularity event
There are lots of novels where the setting is the ordinary humans picking up the pieces after a sudden Singularity event (sometimes called a “Transcendence Event” or “Hard Take-Off”).
One of the premises of these novels is that some super-intelligence in the world is figuring something out, something that (to it) is so compelling that it [...]
Not a great week, but not a bad week
I finally decided to get off my ass and start writing again. I’m not happy when I’m not writing, but often I lack the kind of input that I need to push me toward writing. Television and movies doesn’t do it: only reading really inspires me to write a lot. Fortunately, I had two perfect [...]
My apologies…
The Pendorwright site appear to be the subject of a rather annoying denial of service attack. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I’m working on tracking it down and blocking out the problem addresses even further. There may be some performance problems with the changes, but let’s hope they’re unnoticeable.
Explaining the Seattle Chill
I was working on a story and trying to explain why the characters were reacting to each other the way they were and hit upon an interesting obvservation. Nathan has just been approached at the city’s “het” S&M club in a way that was somewhat surprising, and attempts to explain to himself his own [...]
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