10 — 15% of social media reviews will be fake by 2014 As if it wasn’t already hard enough to pick a new blender. Gartner Research estimates that in two years’ time 10–15% of social media reviews will be fake, either written… Read more »
William Gibson says science fiction is almost always wrong In an extensive series of interviews with Wired, William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and Zero History, delves deeply into the tropes of his adopted writing style. Most particularly, he dismisses the… 1 / Read more »
Iran still really dislikes that one story Rushdie told last century The more-or-less abrogated fatwa on author Salman Rushdie has officially been renewed. The twenty-three year old edict was first issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in an effort to punish Rushdie in… Read more »
Much ado about Buffy The Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up this weekend, and thanks to NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, I heard about a couple literary film adaptations that really seem worth… Read more »