What are you reading right now?

JGuy Grungeman · 07-01-2016, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy

To top of a fantastic day, my copy of Neuromancer arrived in the post. This will be my first venture into cyberpunk, and Gibson seemed a fitting place to start.

Was hoping to pick up a first-edition, but they command quite a price for a first-read.

A: If you like Neuromancer, go with Three Days in April. It's on Kindle. It's cyberpunk.
B: Either that or Black Cauldron are next for me.

innerspaceboy · 07-01-2016, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman

A: If you like Neuromancer, go with Three Days in April. It's on Kindle. It's cyberpunk.
B: Either that or Black Cauldron are next for me.

Thanks for the suggestion ! My fiance recently picked up first print mass market PBs of The complete Chronicles of Prydain. It made her so happy!

SujanaH · 07-01-2016, 09:27 PM

A encouraging story 'The Ant & The Grasshopper'.

JGuy Grungeman · 07-02-2016, 04:56 PM

I might've heard of that.

I'm three chapters into Solaris, and it may be the best novel ever.

djchameleon · 07-04-2016, 05:36 AM

Started a few chapters in this book. Had a lovely conversation with an Italian man on the plane ride down to PR and he suggested I pick it up.

innerspaceboy · 07-09-2016, 10:30 AM

I've just received an internet privacy milestone artifact in the post. I'd spent the last week delving into the politics of crypto-anarchism and the cypherpunks. The "crypto" does not refer to a covert political position as it does in the term, "crypto-fascism", but instead refers to politics concerned with privacy in the digital age.

Pictured below is the second EVER issue of WIRED, published in May of 1993. The masked gents holding the flag on the cover are the early cypherpunks, including the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and fathers of Bitcoin.

Their core philosophy (back in 1996!) was that government can never be trusted to protect civilian privacy on the internet and that it was up to private citizens to develop technology to protect it.

John Perry Barlow is among those featured - the man who published A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace in 1996. (The archival record album of which I featured on my member journal.)

These men had incredible foresight of that which has come to pass in the 20 years since the issue's publication!

Chula Vista · 07-14-2016, 03:37 PM

You guys should have read Neuromancer back in the late 80s. Has been a total mind **** watching so much of that **** get real since back then!

whipsy48 · 07-15-2016, 06:30 PM

Kafka-Short stories

innerspaceboy · 07-15-2016, 06:52 PM

Over the past 48-hours my recreational research project on privacy has exploded after a news site showed great interest in the piece. I've shifted the focus slightly from general privacy to outline the critical impact Snowden's leaks and mass surveillance have had on journalists and on the national voices of dissent, particularly among minorities.

Every day I find a new study publishing results demonstrating the "spiral of silence" which has resulted from the constant fear of being watched. Citizens are demonstrably self-censoring their speech in public, in private, and on social media, and even refraining from entering search phrases into google which they fear might arouse suspicion.

This is textbook Orwell, and I'm proud to bring this important story to my readers. I plan to contextualize the history of the matter with crypto-anarchism, the cypherpunk movement, and the importance of the right to individual privacy, as well as a resource guide to help journalists and other readers take measures to protect their own.

JGuy Grungeman · 07-18-2016, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

You guys should have read Neuromancer back in the late 80s. Has been a total mind **** watching so much of that **** get real since back then!

This is actually next on my todo list. I'm uber hyped to get to this, being a big cyberpunk fan.

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