March 11th, 2007 | researchmaterial
Cory strikes gold: sf continues to divide and scatter into subgenres like a sick microbe.
Clockpunk, it seems, is Renaissance-based parahistorical science fiction.
Clockpunk explores how the world would have turned out if certain technological developments that occurred later had happened in the Renaissance and or certain inventions in the time of the Renaissance were created on a mass scale in the time period
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Kieron Gillen - 09 Feb 10
The whole run of Plan B magazine has been released as a single 670Mb PDF. That’s 46 issues of some of the finest music writing of the decade. And a lot of posturing pretentiousness too. It’s like two of my favourite things for the price of one. Or none, as it’s a free PDF.
If you’ve any interest in music in the 00s, or music full stop, this is a great thing to just have on file. You’ll discover a new band every time you browse it.
Hell, it’s even worth getting if you’re one of the games journalist sorts. For the first 10-20 issues or so, I was doing games stuff for it. And Quinns and Mathew Kumar too, who I bullied into contributing. Very much written for the non-gamer about games which get pretty much no coverage, we had fun trying to decode the concept of Outsider Games.
Whole thing here. Go gets!
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jwz - 08 Feb 10
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Open The Future - 08 Feb 10
For those folks who are interested, here's the Slideshare version of the presentation I gave last week at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. I was asked to talk about foresight thinking, as the event theme was "The Big One of 2056: What Went Right?" a look at a fictional 7.8 quake in the SF region that was handled as well as they could imagine possible.
My goal was to offer a bit of reassurance to the audience that there is some real utility to thinking about the future, and to spell out (in a cursory way) the kinds of big picture issues they should keep in mind while looking ahead forty-six years.
By and large, it was a successful talk. The post-talk questions were engaged, with little push-back, and I'm told that the overall response from the audience was quite positive.
The talk was video recorded, and I'm told will eventually be available to the public. I'll link when that happens.
I like the microbe analogy.
So I guess this is the Da Vinci Cold?
I guess it’s about time. I’m not sure who it was that decided that all fantasy novels had to be set in the Middle Ages, or that all sci-fi novels had to be set in the future, but in retrospect it seems to be a kind of a silly choice.
I am also not sure why we need so many different names for different things. Clockpunk, Steampunk, Cyberpunk–maybe it’s to cater to the people who like to read, but only like to read. Very. Specific. Things.
Paul Macauly’s Pasquale’s Angel is obviously clockpunk, and it was published in 1994. Has it taken until now for a sub-genre (or sub-sub-genre) to form around it?
Also: Is this the SF/alternate-history analogue of Flintlock-Fantasy?
I was Clockpunk before Clockpunk was cool. Leonardo was a sell-out.
this whole thing reminds me of magic cards like clockwork gnomes and clockwork beast
Sounds a lot like that old Vertigo mini-series Sebastian O by Grant Morrison.