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.
Apex Reviews had this to say about Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale: Utterly mind-bending, Pink Noise is nothing if not imaginative. […] you are sure to finish his spiritually-winding tale emotionally exhausted – yet strangely intrigued by the nascent enlightenment you somehow now possess. For the rest of the review, see this or this.
Our software archaeologists have discovered Leo’s guest blog post on worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy, following an author interview and a book review of Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale.
Jennifer Walker interviews me on A Cup Of Coffee And A Good Book.
Jennifer Walker reviews Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale on her blog A Cup Of Coffee And A Good Book: Leonid Korogodski’s Pink Noise is an exciting and imaginative voyage far into the future, showing us where our future very well may go many hundreds of years from now. A hard core science fiction, this book is not for the faint of heart or casual reader–there is some disturbing violence, although limited, and the language is heavily laden with physics and science terms that sometimes makes it hard to follow for those who are not used to it. However, the story…
There is a simple solution to the Fermi Paradox. As discovered by Ilya Prigogine, open complex non-linear systems far from equilibrium statistically tend to decrease their entropy. This phenomenon is also known under other names: emergent properties, self-organizing criticality, exotropy, to name a few. This is a generalization of evolution. This is what keeps the universe from the so-called “heat death.” This is the source of complexity in the universe, from the formation of galaxies to stars in galaxies, to planets around stars, to geological processes in rocky planets, to life on at least one planet but obviously not all,…
Hi. For the new visitors, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Rina, a character from Leonid Korogodski’s science fiction novella Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale, blogging from the 31st century. Recently, going through some old archives from the early 21st century, our software archaeologists discovered a post by Charles Stross called The Hard Edge of Empire. It took a while, as software archaeology goes, but I don’t think it’s too late for me to bring it up. The barrage of contemporary response was also discovered together with the original post, which however failed to notice the irony that, being anti-totalitarian…