Second publication of one of my stories, this time in English and on a podcast (save the trees!), the excellent and crazy Starship Sofa!
My flash fiction, Fork Bomb, appears in the episode entitled Aural Delights No 50 Paul di Fillippo. It’s a geeky story about a post-humanist future, starting around 6:10 in the episode (that [...]

Ouch. Long time no post.
At least none about Japan. However, it was not for the lack of things to happen here, rather the contrary. It’s hard to take the time and distance to synthesize and serialize impressions into meaningful, hopefully enjoyable, posts while you’re in the midsts of the cultural storm. [...]

I posted a review of William Gibson’s Spook Country, in French, on the Xénobiophiles blog. Here is the English version of it.
“We’re all doing VR [Virtual Reality], every time we look at a screen. We have been for decades now. We just do it. We didn’t need the goggles, the gloves. It just happened. [...]

Cette deuxième nouvelle a été écrite pour le concours de nouvelles du Flash Informatique, un magazine local édité à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Les règles imposaient la durée du texte, ainsi que sa dernière phrase. Salon de nuit a remporté le concours en 2005.

Première nouvelle, donc imparfaite, mais volontairement évasive. Une fiction futuriste à énigme dans un cadre surréel.