Got an opinion on this cover art?

May 12, 2012

Not that anyone reading this would be opinionated <pause role=”for laughter”/> but I’d appreciate any feedback on this cover art for Ritchie Boss, Private Investigator Manager (which you can read in full here under a Creative Commons license). I haven’t yet decided on the details, and thus welcome feedback in this regard as well, but this will [...]

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My top-rated reads of 2011

January 3, 2012
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From the statistics gathered by Goodreads, here’s everything I rated five stars (which to me means will-reread-again) in 2011: A Memory of Wind, Rachel Swirsky The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang Steering the Craft, Ursula K. Le Guin Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, Rudy Rucker Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny Story Engineering, [...]

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A geeky perspective on The Difference Engine

February 13, 2011

The Difference Engine starts off with a fantastic premise: what if Babbage’s ideas turned out to be more than mere ideas? The resulting history brings the information age a century early, complete with mechanical computers, punched cards, and a “clacker” culture. Information wants to be free. But it also brings oppressive elements. Government and/or corporate [...]

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