On October 4, 2004 Neal Stephenson was at Book People in Austin, TX, where he read an excerpt from his then-latest book, “The System of…
Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book. A plethora of new markets for what we used to call slipstream has blossomed over the past two years, with…
Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book: Why have the cyberpunks abandoned the future? Do William Gibson’s “Pattern Recognition” and Bruce Sterling’s “The Zenith Angle” evidence a…
Participants: Vernor Vinge, John Gibbons (interviewer) Vernor Vinge talked about how he got started writing science fiction, about numerical parametrization of group minds, about some…
Participants: Daniel Abraham, Jess Nevins, Vernor Vinge, Sage Walker (Moderator), Don Webb Topic, according to the convention program: Our panel looks for the coming breakthrough…
Participants Kurt Baty, Tom Becker (Moderator), Alexis Glynn Latner, Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge Topic, according to the convention program We just thought it…