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Brazilian Book Worm reviews Pink Noise

Brazilian Book Worm reviews Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale. Pink Noise itself is a chronicle of what we could gain but, more than everything, what we could lose if we all stopped being human. Is immortality worth it? If you think about it, look at Egypt, they TURNED THE INTERNET OFF! And if they got as much control, imagine if all of our minds were connected there… Who would be controlling the system? And who would watch them? (who watches the watchmen kind of thing).

Calendar on Venus

As you may be aware, there is little point in marking time on Venus by its motion relative to the Sun. The orbit of Venus is nearly a perfect circle, and the planet has no axial tilt, so it has no seasons. Any point along the orbit is essentially indistinguishable from any other one, and return to it has no special meaning. Thus, there is no solar calendar on Venus. Instead, from the very beginning of the human settlement, the universally accepted calendar on Venus has been a geo calendar, based on the motion of Venus relative to Earth. The…

Travel to Venus in a Week

From an e-World ad circulated among the Coalition’s elite subscriber travel networks: Do you have an excess of processing power? Have your posthuman slaves been generating more than you can spend? Have you never been to Venus? Then travel in luxury on the Lark of Magnetotail, experience the exotic locales in the sulfuric acid clouds, feel the thrill of danger mingling with the Homo Venusienne in their native element, and go on a one of a kind visit to the restricted access zone on the surface to observe dismantling of an underground fortress from the Wizard War II era. Please…

Pink Noise reviewed at Upsaid.com

Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale is reviewed on Upsaid.com: Pink Noise, by Leonid Korogodski, is poetic and boldly visionary. Although much of the action takes place inside a comatose brain, Korogodski creates a believable and vivid world that repays the reader’s attention. For the rest of the review, go to Upsaid.com.

Review of Pink Noise on SFSite.com

Seamus Sweeney gives Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale an excellent review on SFSite.com Pink Noise is one of the most thought-provoking and enjoyable books I’ve read in a while. […] it is a long time since I have read something so arresting and haunting. […] Leonid Korogodski’s short book […] combines the force of a parable with a sense of what Wordsworth called “something more deeply interfused,” that strange, almost mystical effect of the whole being far more than the sum of its parts. It’s the sense that we get in The Great Gatsby and Heart of Darkness, like Pink…

Pink Noise reviewed on Val’s Random Comments

Val takes a look at both the story of Pink Noise and the ideas behind it. The author puts quite a lot of material in a relatively short text. Pink Noise: A Post-Human Tale is deceptively densely written and I ended up rereading certain passages after completing the appendix. Although Korogodski sets a brisk pace, parts of the story could be called action-packed, it is definitely a work that requires some time to read and digest. It is quite an impressive début, one of the most interesting science fiction stories I’ve read in a while. It is prime food for…

My Boskone Schedule

My Boskone (February 18–20, 2011) schedule looks like this: (1) On Friday, 7:00-8:00 pm, I’ll join Jeffrey A. Carver and Tom Easton for a panel on The Domestic Robot. (2) On Friday, 9:00-10:00 pm, I will give a presentation on Plasma Cosmology, a controversial experimental approach to doing space science. (3) On Sunday, 10:30-11:00, I’ll be reading. (4) On Sunday, 11:00-12:00, I’ll be answering the question Does Mars Need Zombies?, along with Kathryn Cramer, Walter H. Hunt, Ken Schneyer, and Allen M. Steele. (5) Autographing on Sunday, 1:00-2:00 pm, sitting next to Leah Cypess and James Patrick Kelly. (6) On…

Fascinating Authors Interview

Leonid Korogodski, the author of Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale is interviewed by Fascinating Authors: The posthuman world, the world of disembodied software-driven minds, is the ultimate foil against which to illuminate what it means to be human. The story focuses on the subtle but fundamental differences between analog and digital intelligences (brain versus computer). What makes us different? Can computers completely replace our bodies? And what would happen if someone tries it? […] For the rest of the interview, click here.

Pink Noise reviewed in Locus Magazine

Rich Horton reviews Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale in the January issue of Locus Magazine: Pink Noise is a novella which comes in a quite stunningly well-put-together package. […] The action is partly inner to the uploaded brain states, and partly outer, involving some wild spaceship tech. […] the ideas keep buzzing. For the complete review, see the print or digital January issue of Locus Magazine.