Software Archaeology – Leonid Korogodski

Leo at Boskone

Published on February 19, 2012

Leo Korogodski was spotted at the Boskone science fiction and fantasy convention (February 17–19, 2012). According to the posted convention schedule, he took part in the following activities: Dressing the Parties—Regalia and Symbolism (Panel), Fri 18:00–19:00, Harbor III (Westin) Changing Views of the Aristocrat in SF/F/H (Panel), Fri 21:00–22:00, Harbor II (Westin) Optimism vs. Darkness in SF (Panel), Sat 16:00–17:00, Griffin (Westin) Reading: Leonid Korogodski (Reading), Sun 12:00–12:30, Independence (Westin)

Bubonicon 2011

Published on August 26, 2011

Leo Korogodski was sighted at the Bubonicon science fiction convention, August 26–28, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Designing Pink Noise

Published on May 25, 2011

Hey, all. This is Rina again, your “welcome personette”, reporting from the 31st century with some of our software archaeologists’ finds. In 2011, Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale by Leo Korogodski won the Indie Excellence Awards in three categories: (1) Science Fiction; (2) Book Cover Design, Fiction; and (3) Book Interior Design, Fiction. Having searched extensively through the centuries-old records in the obsolete “internet” formats, our software archaeologists have been unable to uncover some details of the Pink Noise design. NOTE: All PDF and JPG links used in this post are low resolution versions of the actual design. The width-to-height…

Multicultural Pink Noise

Published on January 31, 2011

Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale is a science fiction novella written in the English language by an ethnic Jew born in Ukraine and living in US, illustrated by a Bulgarian living in Belgium, printed in India, and set on Mars with Zulu, Irish, and Indian characters. Also, using words from English (for the most part, of course), Zulu, Malayalam, Irish Gaelic, Tamil, Sanskrit, Hebrew; and typeset using the following alphabet sets: Latin, Malayalam, Tamil, Sanskrit, Hebrew.

Guest Blog Post: On Worldbuilding

Published on December 21, 2010

Our software archaeologists have discovered Leo’s guest blog post on worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy, following an author interview and a book review of Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale.

Steampunk’s [Anti-]“Totalitarian Urge”

Published on December 8, 2010

Hi. For the new visitors, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Rina, a character from Leonid Korogodski’s science fiction novella Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale, blogging from the 31st century. Recently, going through some old archives from the early 21st century, our software archaeologists discovered a post by Charles Stross called The Hard Edge of Empire. It took a while, as software archaeology goes, but I don’t think it’s too late for me to bring it up. The barrage of contemporary response was also discovered together with the original post, which however failed to notice the irony that, being anti-totalitarian…

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…