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Book Review: The Immortality Virus

“Only when life is short can one imagine that love lasts forever.” This line sums up one of the major themes of The Immortality Virus by Christine Amsden. Set in the far future, when the humanity stopped aging, this story explores such deep subjects as the price and benefits of immortality, while at the same time keeping up the break-neck pace and turn-the-pages feel of a good science fiction thriller. This is no mean feat to achieve. It helps that the plot resembles the familiar mold of private investigation stories. The main character, Grace Harper, is a private detective, who…

Optimism and Darkness in Science Fiction

In mid-February, I attended Boskone, a science fiction convention in Boston. I was on the “Optimism vs. Darkness in SF” panel, together with John Joseph Adams, Jennifer Pelland, Phoebe Wray, and the moderator Peter Brett. After the panel, Justine Graykin, who was in the audience, came to me and said thank you for a brief speech I gave at the beginning of the panel, saying that this was worth attending it. This was perhaps the most memorable moment at Boskone for me. Although my time was sharply limited after the convention, I always meant to go back to this subject…

Jim Hines reviews Pink Noise

Jim Hines reviews Pink Noise on his blog: “[…] The worldbuilding is incredibly rich, and there were plenty of, “Hey, that’s so cool!” moments, which is one of the things I read SF for. […]”

BookSpot reviews Pink Noise

BookSpotCentral has published a glowing review of Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale. One of the coolest, most well-designed and fascinating hard SF novels I’ve read lately is Leonid Korogodski’s page-turning Pink Noise (A PostHuman Tale). Have you perhaps never heard of the author? You have now. I believe Leonid will soon be one of today’s best-known science fiction personages. You can find the entire review by clicking here.

Leo at Boskone

Leo Korogodski was spotted at the Boskone science fiction and fantasy convention (February 17–19, 2012). According to the posted convention schedule, he took part in the following activities: Dressing the Parties—Regalia and Symbolism (Panel), Fri 18:00–19:00, Harbor III (Westin) Changing Views of the Aristocrat in SF/F/H (Panel), Fri 21:00–22:00, Harbor II (Westin) Optimism vs. Darkness in SF (Panel), Sat 16:00–17:00, Griffin (Westin) Reading: Leonid Korogodski (Reading), Sun 12:00–12:30, Independence (Westin)

Bubonicon 2011

Leo Korogodski was sighted at the Bubonicon science fiction convention, August 26–28, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

ICCS 2011 Workshop: Science Fiction and Complexity

I will take part in ICCS 2011, the Eight International Conference on Complex Systems, organized by New England Complex Systems Institute. Yes, there will be a special workshop on Science Fiction and Complexity, chaired by Jonathan Vos Post and featuring Ben Bova, Philip Fellman, Steve Barnes, and yours truly. It will take place on Monday, June 27, during the evening session. I’m also going to attend a number of science workshops, throughout the entire week, June 27–July 1. There are so many interesting ones, it’s really hard to choose. But my criterion is simple: what can help me in research…

Designing Pink Noise

Hey, all. This is Rina again, your “welcome personette”, reporting from the 31st century with some of our software archaeologists’ finds. In 2011, Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale by Leo Korogodski won the Indie Excellence Awards in three categories: (1) Science Fiction; (2) Book Cover Design, Fiction; and (3) Book Interior Design, Fiction. Having searched extensively through the centuries-old records in the obsolete “internet” formats, our software archaeologists have been unable to uncover some details of the Pink Noise design. NOTE: All PDF and JPG links used in this post are low resolution versions of the actual design. The width-to-height…