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July 22, 2023

A writer you’ll enjoy

I’ve written an introduction for a forthcoming new edition of John Sundman’s mind-bending and beautiful novella Cheap Complex Devices, which anticipated ChatGPT and its issues about creativity and sentience by 20+ years. It’s also a uniquely lovely and properly confounding book.

But that’s not the Sundman book you should start with, much as I love it. His others are more conventional tech-sf novels — more conventional but not conventional.

Here’s his bibliography:

  • Acts of the Apostles: Mind over Matter – intro by Cory Doctorow
  • Cheap Complex Devices: Mind Over Matter– intro by me
  • The Pains: Mind Over Matter – intro by Ken MacLeod
  • Biodigital: : A Novel of Technopotheosis – intro by John Biggs

The first three are a trilogy of sorts.

He has a new one coming out this fall: Mountain of Devils, coming this fall. 

John is a very interesting person. He’s got tech chops that go all the way back to the early days of microcomputers. Until recently, he was a volunteer firefighter and writes compellingly about that as well. (Disclosure: John’s a friend.)

For updates on this project and more, check out his substack https://johnsundman.substack.com/

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Categories: ai, culture Tagged with: culture • novels • sf • tech Date: July 22nd, 2023 dw

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March 28, 2014

Why I love the Web, Reason #4,763: The Pulp-o-mizer

So much beautiful work has gone into the free service that is the Pulp-o-mizer — a brilliant way to create your own retro sf covers. It took under 5 minutes to create each of these:

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Thank you, Pulp-o-mizer! Thank you, Web!

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Categories: free culture, too big to know Tagged with: 2b2k • pulp • sf Date: March 28th, 2014 dw

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