Darin Bradley is all over this page, so I’m going to stop identifying him every time I have to mention him. If you don’t know him by now, you haven’t been paying attention (and judging by our traffic numbers, you haven’t!).
And I’m going to start responding to the things he says over on Suvudu, where he has begun a new blog series about the Pox Eclipse in all its myriad forms.
This first post is just a hello, so we’ll see what happens next. I’m not above a little recreational trolling …
Andrew Sullivan’s blog today pointed readers to yet another blogger’s summary of the PhilPapers surveys, in which hundreds of professional and semi-pro philosophers responded to a number of basic metaphysical questions.
Among them was the question of free will, and the vast majority believe that the universe is either deterministic in a way that is compatible with free will or that free will does not exist at all. Leaving aside my own libertarian leanings (both metaphysical and political), it is clear that the people have spoken.
And since the universe functions in this way, and since Amazon added an important new item this weekend, you have no choice but to choose to pre-order Farrago-founder Darin Bradley’s novel Noise.
Immediately. The universe demands it.
Bantam Spectra editor David Pomerico has pulled some thoughts on the future of genre lit, responding to feedback from readers. Pomerico is largely correct in his conclusions (especially the fact that Farrago founder Darin Bradley’s upcoming novel Noise is going to be a big book in the coming year). And also in identifying the zombie trend and predicting what’s coming next now that it has reached maturity.
But the readers who fed Pomerico his responses show a lack of vision. From the article:
One of the key comments I’ve heard about zombies is that, unlike vampires and werewolves, witches and sorcerers, zombies just aren’t sexy. More importantly, there’s really no way to make them sexy.
In the parlance of teh Intarwebs: ORLY?
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Or read something different, and tell her to read that. The same applies for watchables.
Rima continues her guest blogging spree at Jeff Vandermeer’s blog, unloading the most noteworthy shapers of her current personal zeitgeist.
There’s a lot going on here, covering everything from Israel/Palestine relations to copyright law, but I didn’t see anything about zombies or explosions, so I didn’t read it.
As the battle of writers vs. readers wages on, Farrago spouse, power drunkard and eclectic academic Rima Abunasser has some thoughts on why she chose a spot amongst the elite of the reading class, and what exactly that means.
If your fragile ego is tied to either camp and can’t stand up to clear-headed rationality and some basic decency, you might not want to read on.
