Margaret Killjoy Returns
The Cyberpunk Apocalypse’s first visiting writer is back in town reading the book he completed durring his month in Pittsburgh!
What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower: Being An Adventure Of Your Own Choosing
This Saturday APRIL 21st, 5pm @ the BIG IDEA BOOK STORE
Margaret’s first reading of this story was one of the most fun readings I’ve attended (the audience decided what would happen). You should definitely check it out.
But don’t take my word for it—take the word of people that you know less well but are way more famous:
“If you make your way through to the end, you’ll discover that Killjoy’s not just spinning a shaggy-dog story—there’s a surprising amount of heart and adventure to be had if you’re bold enough to choose the path of heroism.”
—Cory Doctorow, author of For The Win
“In What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower, the estimable Margaret Killjoy takes a story-form usually associated with younger readers and infuses it with decadence and absinthe along with delirious and dissolute fantasy. If you’re choosing your own adventure, I strongly recommend you make it this one.”
—Alan Moore, author of Watchmen/i>
Wrote A Pop City article about Cyberpunk's move
It’s a short article about the move. It is nice to keep putting out little things.
Source: dirtydesk
Gonna be giving a talk at Carnegie Mellon University in a few weeks.
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Reading @ the new Cyberpunk Apocalypse April 26th 7pm
UPDATE: Pittsburgh’s favorite Gunner will be rhyming at this event!! Don’t miss it!
Xavier Maldonado read at the old Cyberpunk Apocalypse last fall, now he’s back. This Chicago poet writes about identity and unripened fruit in a collection of poetry called Explorers Are We. He is touring with Tara who writes about being trans, queer, and poly in the poetry zine Stunned Lungs and their perzine, which may also contain writing about coffee, bad eyes, and tiny birds.
We’re all excited about the first reading. Come on out. Attendance is free—donations and buying touring artists’ zines is encouraged.
1200 Boyle St. Pittsburgh PA 15201
Cyberpunk Apocalypse juice-off of 2012, in which we decided on the fate of the three juicers we inherited. This was a mix of carrots, beets, apples, backyard chard, and beet greens.
You Don't Know Dick: You Don't Know Dick: Brief Encounters with Philip K. Dick
“The world we actually have does not meet my standards.”
Did you know that Philip K. Dick once saved the life of his infant son by speaking Greek, a language he did not know? Or that he could write an entire novel in eight to twelve days as long as he kept a steady diet of vitamin pills and…
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Give them money don’t give them money. Live and die by the silicon crystal.
Shirky through Matthew Ingram: Publishing is no longer a job or an industry -- it's a button
if traditional publishers — of all kinds, not just the book industry — want to maintain some of the value they have had in the past, they will have to stop thinking about controlling the process of distribution or the delivery platform, and think more about the services they can add for authors and readers.
This is really the only way to manage disruptive changes within a field or industry: 1) Assess the potential value you as a company can provide in the new situation 2) Identify those who are willing to pay for that value 3) Transform your company and business model to providing that value (1) to those identified in step (2)
Everything you do that will not fit in that new model is basically worthless and should be cut off as fast as possible.
Is that really so hard?
Source: futuramb
Sam McPheeters reads from his novel Loom of Ruin, at the East Liberty public library. Thanks to our friends at Some Ideas Collective for hosting it; we had a good time.
Iran expected to permanently cut off Internet by August
Millions of Internet users in Iran could soon be permanently cut off from the Web, social networks, and e-mail.
In a statement released last week, Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology, announced it plans to establish a national intranet within five months in an effort to create a “clean Internet,” according to an International Business Times report. “All Internet Service Providers (ISP) should only present National Internet by August,” Taghipour said in the statement.
» via CNET
(via futuramb)
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