Comments on: The novelist’s design http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7419 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Robin Sloan http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7419/comment-page-1#comment-44363 Robin Sloan Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:55:14 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7419#comment-44363 You and your Wilkie Collins! You and your Wilkie Collins!

]]> By: Will P. http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7419/comment-page-1#comment-44357 Will P. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:59:35 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7419#comment-44357 Funny, considering that Second Life is partly inspired by Stephenson's "Snow Crash." On a side note, living in Spain now, we can't get enough of the Kindle. It feels especially weird to be reading Wilkie Collins on it ("No Name," starts slow but then gets just as good as "The Moonstone" and "The Woman In White"), but then again it is a very Victorian device in some ways. Funny, considering that Second Life is partly inspired by Stephenson’s “Snow Crash.” On a side note, living in Spain now, we can’t get enough of the Kindle. It feels especially weird to be reading Wilkie Collins on it (“No Name,” starts slow but then gets just as good as “The Moonstone” and “The Woman In White”), but then again it is a very Victorian device in some ways.

]]> By: Sharat B. http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7419/comment-page-1#comment-44356 Sharat B. Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:20:50 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7419#comment-44356 To back your assertion up, I'd point to the Smithsonian Magazine blogs picking up Paleofuture. I only started paging back through the archives yesterday, but it looks like a wonderful study of retrofuturism. The Smithsonian certainly seems to care about how good our fiction was at predicting futures, or at least what we can learn from the assumptions underlying those predictions. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/ To back your assertion up, I’d point to the Smithsonian Magazine blogs picking up Paleofuture. I only started paging back through the archives yesterday, but it looks like a wonderful study of retrofuturism. The Smithsonian certainly seems to care about how good our fiction was at predicting futures, or at least what we can learn from the assumptions underlying those predictions.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/

]]> By: Robin Sloan http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7419/comment-page-1#comment-44355 Robin Sloan Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:17:11 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7419#comment-44355 Ha hahaha. WELCOME TO THE FUTURE! Ha hahaha. WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!

]]> By: সহেলী http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7419/comment-page-1#comment-44354 সহেলী Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:15:37 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7419#comment-44354 I was going to leave some sort of banal comment about Jules Verne and other inspirational but then I was totally discombobulated by the fact that the Snarkmatrix somehow automatically respelled my name in Bangla. Well played, Sloan, well played. I was going to leave some sort of banal comment about Jules Verne and other inspirational but then I was totally discombobulated by the fact that the Snarkmatrix somehow automatically respelled my name in Bangla. Well played, Sloan, well played.

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