Author Archives: Claire L. Evans

Neuromancer

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Claire L. Evans

I can’t imagine what it would have been like to read William Gibson’s Neuromancer in 1984. It’s so absurdly dense and riddled with cryptic terms which have since become commonplace, that it must have been virtually hieroglyphic at the time. … Continue reading →

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Reading Notes: R.U.R.

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Claire L. Evans

The first book of the project is a play, which is an early indicator of how esoteric this list really is. R.U.R. stands for Rossum’s Universal Robots, the latter term being coined by Karel Capek (an enigmatic Czech writer perhaps … Continue reading →

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Arthur C. Clarke in Playboy

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Claire L. Evans

The great (now late) Arthur C. Clarke had a longstanding relationship with Playboy magazine: they published the first excerpts of 2010: Odyssey Two, as well as a plethora of his short works, musings, and technical papers. It wasn’t until 1986 … Continue reading →

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The Project

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Claire L. Evans

I’ve been reading science fiction novels for most of my life; as a kid, consuming them breathlessly on my parents’ couch, clammy-palmed and haunted by the unreal; furtively, in college, instead of the recommended canon, which was, of course, markedly … Continue reading →

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