Month: October 2010

Cryptozoica: Adventure Done Right

Published on October 17, 2010

Mark Ellis is a prolific writer, well known for the stories written as James Axler (including the popular Outlanders series) as for those written under his own name. A firm grip on the adventure aspect of storytelling is his forte, and Cryptozoica is a fine example of this. This is an adventure done right. I can easily see it rolling onto the big screen as naturally as a newborn coming out of a womb, already perfect, with hardly a change necessary. Somehow, Mark has managed to marry the Hollywood approach to filmmaking (Indiana Jones crossed with Jurassic Park), that typically…

Pink Noise reviewed on BoingBoing.net

Published on October 15, 2010

Our software archaeologists have discovered a review of Pink Noise from the early 21st century, about a thousand years ago. As you may have learned in your history lessons, BoingBoing.net was a major blogging hub back then, created by Cory Doctorow and his team. The following is called a “link” in the network lingo of the time: The review by Cory Doctorow begins as follows: Leonid Korogodski’s publishing debut Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale is a dense, hard-sf novella that takes a serious crack at imagining the priorities, miseries and joys of posthuman people. It’s a tall order: creating believably…