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Loving the Alien returns after a brief hiatus, and Mac Tonnies takes the time to wonder why literary science fiction has never embraced the UFO as a conceptual alpha or omega point. Continue reading “UFOs and Science Fiction”
Mac Tonnies assures me that this is a true story; I’ve worked with him for a while now, and I’m inclined to believe him… though I suspect the truth in question may be more symbolic than literal. But you should make up your own mind after you read about Mac’s real-life alien encounter in this month’s Loving The Alien column. Continue reading “My real-life alien encounter”
If you were wondering why Mac Tonnies’ latest Loving The Alien column is a little late, here’s the answer — it turns out he’s been lurking in Second Life. What might the fluid nature of identity in the metaverse mean for our posthuman successors? Continue reading “Navigating the Metaverse”
Mac Tonnies has been thinking about aliens - the Grays. What if they represent a sort of tangible psychosomatic feedback from our own distant future? Continue reading “Listening to the Grays”
Mac Tonnies is planning a voyage into inner space. Where else can he go to find out what’s happening in the Real reality that our brains keep hidden from us? Continue reading “The Existential Buffer - how and why our brains filter the Here and Now”
Mac’s back - and he’s been having some dark dreams. Are science fictional dystopias an inevitable side-effect of our current species-wide existential issues? Continue reading “Dreams of the Future”
It’s the return of the Mac! In this instalment of his Loving The Alien column, transhuman ufologist Mac Tonnies has been thinking about a subject that is dear to us all … but whose dearness is inexplicable when observed from a rational perspective.
Which leads you to wondering - what will Posthuman Sex look like? Continue reading “Posthuman Sex”
Welcome to the return of non-fiction essays to Futurismic! And welcome also to the inaugural Loving The Alien column, in which Mac Tonnies sets out his pitch for “transhuman ufology”.
How can Kurzweilian Singularitarianism and informed ufological speculation be reconciled? Read on to find out …
Continue reading “Transhuman Ufology”
