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.
The Hugo Awards Nomination Period opened this month and will continue until March 26. But, unless you were a member of the previous year’s WorldCon, you must register for this year’s WorldCon by January 31 in order to be able to nominate for the Hugo Awards. So register soon! A full membership is not required; a supporting membership is enough. As a quick reminder, my Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale is eligible for Hugo Awards in the Novella category.
Hi. This is Rina reporting from the 31st century. The current state of research on hive minds brings into my mind a curious fallacy that used to be fairly common in the science fiction of the 20th and early 21st centuries. A “hive mind,” as is well known, is a conscious entity comprised of multiple brains (or similar processing units), similar to how a brain is comprised of neurons. In science fiction of a millennium ago, it was common to assume that the individuals making such hive minds would be very similar to one another (a la the Borg in…
Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale placed second in the SFBook.com’s Book of the Year 2010 contest, after Mike Shevdon’s The Road To Bedlam and followed by Matt Forbek’s Amortals. Many thanks to the contest’s administrator and congratulations to all authors involved.