Somehow this doesn't surprise me...

I am: William Gibson The chief instigator of the "cyberpunk" wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction.

Which science fiction writer are you?

The Return of the Killer Box Sets...

...and once again, if I didn't have most of this already, I'd buy the damn thing.

Then again, I actually don't have a good portion of the poppier stuff... :p

Whatever: The 90's Pop Culture Box"
(scroll down to the end of the article to see the song list)

Dang it

I'm currently doing a pile of docs for a man with almost the same last name as a lead character in Gabriel and Cassandra. Every time I type his name, I want to be home writing!!!

Umm, okay....

From NY Times, about the recently nominated (by Bush, no less) federal appeals court judge, Janice Rogers Brown:

"In the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery," she has warned in speeches. Society and the courts have turned away from the founders' emphasis on personal responsibility, she has argued, toward a culture of government regulation and dependency that threatens fundamental freedoms.

"We no longer find slavery abhorrent," she told the conservative Federalist Society a few years ago. "We embrace it." She explained in another speech, "If we can invoke no ultimate limits on the power of government, a democracy is inevitably transformed into a kleptocracy - a license to steal, a warrant for oppression."

Uh.....WTF??

More about writing...

Hmm.

At this point in the game, as all of you probably know, I've temporarily set aside the hulking trilogy that I've been working on over the last few years, quite possibly because it's a behemoth that's gotten a little out of my control. And it's so close to the end, too, which annoys me.

But on the plus side, I've been picking up various side projects and playing around with them, writing and whatnot, which makes me happy.

It occurs to me, though, that I really don't want to give up the world that I built up over the last ten or so years that led to not only the trilogy but also one "demo version" and one incomplete different story set in an earlier version of that same world. So I'm thinking that instead of trying to start over from scratch with the trilogy (that would make Major Rewrite II, btw), I should make an exhaustive file of everything I have of this world, and see where I go from there. I know this world very well, and I'm sure I could find a lot to do with it.

So this means that I may just have to go buy another notebook, something I really shouldn't do. :p

(Thanks to Emm for the original suggestion of writing while at work... ;) )