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<a href="http://www.flurb.net/">Flurb!</a> Issue 2 of the Webzine of Astonishing Tales -- edited by <a href="http://www.rudyrucker.com/">Rudy Rucker</a>, featuring 'demented and counter-cultural' stories from luminaries of the cyberypunkery like <a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/" title="You've got to like a guy with a URL like that!">Charles Stross</a>, <a href="http://www.johnshirley.net/">John Shirley</a>, <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Marc_Laidlaw" title="...on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Mark Laidlaw</a> (who also <a href="http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/" title="Bringing together two of my slightly guilty pleasures!">wrote the story for Half Life 2</a>), <a href="http://probabilitybeach.blogspot.com/" title="His video blog.">Richard</a> <a href="http://kaosbeautyklinik.blogspot.com/" title="His photo blog.">Kadrey</a>, one of <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/username.mefi/doctorow" title="At 17 comments, I can't bring myself to call him 'MeFi's own'...">MeFi's</a> favorite snark-targets, <a href="http://www.craphound.com/">Cory Doctorow</a> and others besides -- is out. <small>[found via the <a href="http://www.rusiriusradio.com/">RU SIRIUS podcast</a>] [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/54186">Previously: Issue #1</a>]</small>post:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:18:57 -0800stavrosthewonderchickensfdementedcounter-culturalwebzinefictionsciencefictionscifiruckercyberpunkwritingflurbBy: stavrosthewonderchicken
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<small>I know this is updatefilter, but Flurb is very cool, so I thought it might be worthwhile to give a heads-up. Apologies if not.</small>comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1586907Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:20:15 -0800stavrosthewonderchickenBy: shmegegge
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1586913
charles stross and cory doctorow are also mefites of old. I've even seen cstross commenting within the past year. i think it was in an askme about doctorow.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1586913Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:31:12 -0800shmegeggeBy: stavrosthewonderchicken
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1586916
Cool, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/username.mefi/cstross">you're right</a>! I didn't know Charles Stross was a user as well. Damn, we are <em>good</em>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1586916Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:33:08 -0800stavrosthewonderchickenBy: shmegegge
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1586926
I know right? If anyone actually took advantage of the mefi community, the accidental little nexus of scifi authors, rabid fans, engineers, physicists and wiseasses could hasten the singularity. For god's sake just don't tell Ray Kurzweil!comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1586926Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:44:53 -0800shmegeggeBy: toma
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1587005
You got me to google 'singularity.'comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1587005Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:43:51 -0800tomaBy: Mister_A
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1587138
Thx my poultry friend.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1587138Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:47:35 -0800Mister_ABy: smackwich
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Wake me up when Vernor Vinge starts commenting.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1587193Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:10:19 -0800smackwichBy: straight
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1587307
Rudy Rucker is a fantastic writer. Spaceland. Mathematicians in Love. Just sayin'.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1587307Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:28:46 -0800straightBy: brundlefly
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1587350
I love Rucker. I just finished reading The Hollow Earth. Great, great stuff. Haven't read Mathematicians in Love yet.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1587350Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:10:51 -0800brundleflyBy: Wataki
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Looks like he just got back from over here in NZ.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1587435Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:24:18 -0800WatakiBy: OmieWise
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1587620
Excellent. I really like Stross.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1587620Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:13:53 -0800OmieWiseBy: OmieWise
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1589100
Just in case anyone has the same question I did, which is: What's that game being played in the photgraph in Mark Laidlaw's story? I emailed Rudy Rucker, and asked and he said it was actually a piece of art made to look like a game, by Jane Dalrymple. I think this is some of her work <a href="http://www.naropa.edu/notenoughnight/fall05/hollo.html">here</a>.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1589100Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:43:45 -0800OmieWiseBy: stavrosthewonderchicken
http://www.metafilter.com/58546/A-Webzine-of-Astonishing-Tales#1589248
Thanks, OmieWise.
<em>Wake me up when Vernor Vinge starts commenting.</em>
Nah. You just keep on sleeping, friend.comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.58546-1589248Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:07:08 -0800stavrosthewonderchicken
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