SINGULAR STROSS
Now you already know this man is brilliant, but when I met up with him at Easter (not pictured -- that's from Glasgow, 2005), and I pointed out a particularly unique achievment of his, he said no one else had spotted it, as far as he knew...
So look, you've bought Halting State, haven't you? Take a look at the cover, if you have the UK edition from Little, Brown, and see if you don't recognize one of the pixellated guys on the cover.
I mean, has any author of any genre, never mind SF, been the model for his own cover art before?
All hail Charlie, king of the posthumans.
Now you already know this man is brilliant, but when I met up with him at Easter (not pictured -- that's from Glasgow, 2005), and I pointed out a particularly unique achievment of his, he said no one else had spotted it, as far as he knew...
So look, you've bought Halting State, haven't you? Take a look at the cover, if you have the UK edition from Little, Brown, and see if you don't recognize one of the pixellated guys on the cover.
I mean, has any author of any genre, never mind SF, been the model for his own cover art before?
All hail Charlie, king of the posthumans.
posted by John at
20:55
4 Comments:
I'm a huge fan of Stross and bought Halting State in hardcover as soon as it came out in the US :) Being a software engineer I grok his style well :) I've just finished Bone Song and loved it! Can't wait for Dark Blood to come out here.
I just want someone to let me know, does Dark Blood have a sequel? I sure hope so!
Seraphim
Hey, Seraphim....
The answer to your question is either no or not yet. If I were to write one, it might be called White Bones and involve a strange city called Rima, an even stranger place named TalonClaw, and more detail than the squeamish can bear regarding the nature of computational blood. (That's what the Archivist Bone Listeners manifest from their own bodies.)
There's a short story about to appear in the Best SF 3 collection, as you can see on the Short Fiction page here. I called it Necroflux Day, although it may simply be called Necroflux when the book is printed.
I'm glad you like Dark Blood enough to want to read the sequel... Um, unfortunately, White Bones won't be the next book to appear, because I'm starting a new trilogy and I've got to hand in at least one volume of that before returning to Tristopolis.
Perhaps you'll like that, too! I hope you do...
Hopefully-amusing question, dreamed up while reading Paradox far too late at night:
Can Penrose tiles exist in non-planar geometries?
It's tempting to think of making a Penrose polyhedron. But since the point of them is to tile space in non-repeating patterns, I think they don't work in such (closed? finite?) spaces... unless they are interlocking-fractal, and you can follow the pattern around indefinitely from a slightly different angle each time. I guess that's not really a Penrose tile, but more of a strange attractor. In fact I think it is a strange attractor; is there a class of strange attractor that can be broken up into tiles?
Back to non-planar Penrose... so what about a "saddle" geometry? Since the curve appears to change across the space (is that alway true?) perhaps it's meaningless to talk of tiling it... unless the tiles can be mapped somehow... ? ?
I hope that, even if these questions are not meaningful, they are at least amusing, and provide evidence that Meaney's writing has achieved its presumed purpose of brain-stretching.
Chris
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