“Five years after her husband died, two years after she moved to a cabin in Montana, and six months after the world ended, Marie opened her curtains to discover her front garden overrun with roving, stumbling advertisements. ... There were at least twenty of the ads, and for all it seemed they were doing their damnedest to step lightly, her red and yellow tulips were completely trampled. Marie had stubbornly continued to cultivate those flowers despite the certainty that she ought to be using the gardening space, and the captured rainwater, to grow food. Not that it mattered what she’d been growing there. It was all mud now.”

“In a book populated by the smiling residents of the year 3001 who are slowly beginning to get on the man's nerves (amongst all his adventures), a single line, inserted really just about anywhere in the text, would have saved the book.”

“Sevgi Ertekin is representative of the potential of America, and there's a speech where she says, ‘I cannot believe we pissed this all away. ... We surrendered to the idiot dregs of our own society.’ For me, that's the mission statement of that that element of the book. It's a lament.”

wow, I had been waiting for the paperback, but Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Nice.

Clive Thompson takes a look at Cory Doctorow's novella, After the Siege -- a book, like most sci-fi's, are the only ones to tackle profound philosophical questions.

I queued this for a month but it is so terribly wonderful

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