Playing it by ear: a short interview with Jack Womack

Jack Womack is one of speculative fiction’s secret treasures. His 1995 novel Random Acts Of Senseless Violence is one of the most remarkable and emotionally affecting works I’ve ever read and the seed of my thinking about the whole Grim Meathook Future thing.It’s not science fiction, per se; it’s the story of how American civilization […]

Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86 – Yahoo! News

Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86 – Yahoo! News Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahaha. And on the 4th! Thomas Jefferson’s laughing his ass off somewhere. Somebody find out where that evil old fuck’s grave is, so I can go and dance a jig on it. Roast in Hell, you barbaric […]

On the GMF and the Singularity

Here’s something I wrote on Whitechapel, Warren Ellis’s message board, in the context of a discussion about the Singularity that I started. I thought it would be worth posting here, as it explains some of my earlier thoughts. My whole point with the Grim Meathook Future thing was that, despite what us nerds would like […]