Don’t worry, no religion here. Just good old fashioned post-apocalyptic speculation. I recently watched Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, and while it turned out to be less about the end of the Mayan civilization and more a spectacularly gory and dark action movie, it made me think - what would it be like to think the […]

Recently, I read a great sci-fi book: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, author of the famous Neuromancer and coiner of the word “cyberspace“.

In the novel, main character Cayce Pollard works as a human trend barometer, traveling the world and essentially trading her gut instincts about products and services for cash. In her spare time, […]

I just finished reading the 1986 American edition of A Clockwork Orange, which includes a final chapter that was not in the original ‘63 version of the novel. Kubrick’s movie version of the book also dropped the last chapter. It was added in this new edition because the author, Anthony Burgess, wanted it added […]

Have you ever opened a book and read the disclaimer “All the characters and events in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental,” only to then question whether the book was fictional or not? I haven’t yet, but it seems that millions of Americans have […]