Into the Futurismic

Stephen Years @ 17-09-2007

Greetings Futurismic readers. My name is Stephen Years and I’m one of the new contributors to the Futurismic blog. I’m a high-tech management professional and entrepreneur in California’s Silicon Valley. My current business endeavor is a start-up company that is focused on energy efficiency in data centers.

As a blogger I’m very interested in the intersection of technology, market-forces and culture - and how each changes and modifies the other in a bizarre, continuous feedback loop. As an example, I’m fascinated how the cost of energy is forcing the market to invest in alternative energy sources - and how those new energy sources, once employed significantly, will impact the geopolitical structure. What cultural forces will be unleashed in a Middle East deprived of its primary source of revenue?

I would like to thank Futurismic for this opportunity and I hope you will find my posts enlightening, entertaining and challenging.


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My first Futurismic post: it’s all about me! Me! Me!

Edward Willett @ 17-09-2007

A photo of Edward Willett First posts are fraught with danger–"you never get a second chance to make a first impression," and all that–but at least in this instance the nerve-wracking decision of what to post about has been taken out of my hands: I’m supposed to introduce myself. (Which also removes the fear of blabbing on about something I know nothing about, I suppose: bonus!)

So. I’m Edward Willett, one of your new Futurismic bloggers. My interest in science fiction goes back to childhood, thanks to the corrupting influence of my two older brothers, and my interest in science stems very much from my interest in SF. I was born in New Mexico, but moved to Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada from Texas when I was eight. I studied journalism and art at Harding University in Arkansas, then returned to Weyburn, where I was a newspaper reporter/photographer/columnist/editor/cartoonist (it was a smallish paper) for eight years, before chucking it all in and becoming communications officer for the Saskatchewan Science Centre here in Regina, where I now live.

In 1993 I dumped the workaday life to become a fulltime freelance writer. I’m the author of more than 30 books. First came computer books, then I branched into children’s nonfiction, which I continue to write, on topics that have run the gamut from Ebola Virus to the Iran-Iraq War to biographies of Jimi Hendrix, Orson Scott Card, Janis Joplin and J.R.R. Tolkien (coming soon: Johnny Cash and Andy Warhol!). I’ve also written adult non-fiction, including Genetics Demystified for McGraw-Hill.

Somewhere along the way I sold a few young adult science fiction and fantasy novels to small publishers. In 2005 I sold my first adult science fiction novel, Lost in Translation, to Five Star, and in 2006 DAW Books put it out in mass-market paperback. I have a new science fiction novel, Marseguro, coming out from DAW in February.

I’m the administrative assistant for SF Canada, the association of professional speculative fiction writers of Canada, and maintain the SF Canada news blog. My own personal blog is here.

I write a weekly newspaper science column, which I also podcast. I’m married to a telecommunications engineer and have one daughter. (Oh, and on the side, I’m a professional actor and singer, so if I sneak in a few references to SFnal musical theatre productions, you’ll know why.)

Whew! I’m glad that’s out of the way. That’s way more than enough about me. Now I can think about my first real post…


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Adventures In A Futurismic World

Tomas Martin @ 17-09-2007

Greetings. My name is Tomas L. Martin, one of the new faces here at Futurismic. I’m a writer and physics student from Bristol, England. I’ve been writing book reviews for SFCrowsnest for years now and if I link to a book I’ve been enjoying, I’ll probably include a link to my review. My short story ‘A Shogun’s Welcome’ featured in Aberrant Dreams #7 and a semi-sequel, ‘The Shogun and The Scientist’ will be out in the anthology The Awakening this January.

Anyone interested in reading my fictional work today could do worse than read miawithoutoil, my fictional blog for the World Without Oil project, in which every day of May this year documented a week of a global oil crisis.

On this blog I hope to produce many posts that will pique the interest of readers. In this strange world, I’m especially interested in some of the major changes happening before our eyes so expect a few entries on climate change, alternative energy and peak oil as well as any other cool stuff I come across on my web travels.


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Taking my first baby steps

Jeremy Eades @ 16-09-2007

Hello all!  My name’s Jeremy Eades and I’ll be one of the new Futurismic bloggers.  Originally from the Midwestern US, I’ve pulled up roots and am currently teaching English in Japan.  Besides travelling, cycling and long walks on the beach, I’m a voracious reader - a difficult and expensive proposition in a non English-speaking country.  I’ve also got a pipe dream of becoming an influential and powerful writer with an army of minions fans, but I think you have to write before you can become a writer.

In any case, I’ll be bringing you the latest in cool stuff the pulp sci-fi writers of the 50s only dreamed of, and other science fiction-y goodness.


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Fresh blood - Futurismic staff update

Paul Raven @ 16-09-2007

Well, I received a lot more applicants for blogging positions here at Futurismic than I expected to, which was immensely flattering - even though it was hard work to pick between them all, because they were all of great quality. Thanks to everyone who showed an interest - and apologies to those who didn’t make the cut!

But the editorial choices have been made, and the next few days should involve some new faces cropping up at Futurismic - four new bloggers, eager to share the cool and interesting stuff they come across in their daily web adventures! I’m sure you’ll be welcoming to them all, and I hope you (and they) enjoy the refreshing influx of new voices!

As always, thanks for reading - you’re the people who really make Futurismic what it is, and we’re looking forward to making it bigger and better than ever before.


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Staff

Paul Raven @ 07-07-2007

Futurismic is brought to you by …


Editor-in-chief and Publisher

Paul Raven

Paul Graham Raven is a dishevelled British museum library assistant, but that’s just the day job; out of work hours, he mostly reads and writes (though never enough of the latter).

He writes book and music reviews for a ridiculous number of outlets, both print and web; he’s Reviews Editor of Interzone, the UK’s longest running science fiction magazine; he runs an independent music reviews site named The Dreaded Press, and maintains his own blog, Velcro City Tourist Board.

He also writes poetry that gets eloquent and apologetic rejection slips, and intends to actually finish some short stories of his own one of these days. In the meantime, he’s climbing the ladder of the aspiring freelance … and running this here webzine, too.

Fiction Editor

Christopher East

Christopher East is a writer, editor, critic, bassist, and indoor enthusiast who lives in Los Angeles. His short stories have appeared in a number of science fiction and fantasy magazines, including Interzone, Talebones, and The Third Alternative. A former reviewer for Tangent Online, he now serves as Futurismic’s fiction editor.


The Mysterious Artist

Brian Wanamaker


The bloggers

Tobias S. Buckell

Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean born SF/F writer who currently lives in Ohio. His first novel was published by Tor books in 2006. He keeps a website and blog at www.tobiasbuckell.com.

Edward Willett

Edward Willett is a writer of nonfiction, science fiction and fantasy for both children and young adults. His most recent SF novel, Lost in Translation, was published in paperback by DAW Books in 2006, and his new SF novel Marseguro will be out from DAW in February, 2008. He also writes a newspaper science column and is a professional singer and actor. His website is www.edwardwillett.com and he has a personal blog, Hassenpfeffer.

Jeremy Eades

Jeremy Eades is a budding psycholinguist and world traveller. Currently alighted in Japan for the past few years, he eventually hopes to escape the seductive clutches of the rising sun and write the next Great American Novel. One of these days he’ll actually write a story. Until then, the curious can be sated at his blog, Wilco Tango Foxtrot.

Stephen Years

Stephen Years is a high tech entrepreneur and management professional in California’s Silicon Valley. Stephen’s primary interests lie in the intersection of technology, market forces and culture. Currently he is busy launching a new company focused on server power efficiency.

Previously Stephen was Technology Strategist at Sun Microsystems, and a consultant at KPMG Consulting, LLC (now known as BearingPoint, Inc.). Stephen is a fan of all genres of music, can often be found in Second Life as Soundmaster Clanger, and is busy preparing for the singularity.

Tomas L. Martin

Tomas L. Martin is a writer and physics student from Swansea, Wales. He has reviewed for SFCrowsnest for a number of years and his story “A Shogun’s Welcome”was published in Aberrant Dreams #7. A sequel, ‘The Shogun and the Scientist’ is out in the anthology ‘The Awakening’ in January 2008 and his journal miawithoutoil was a key contribution to the World Without Oil project. He is in the final year of a masters in physics at Bristol University and is co-coordinator of the 2008 UK National Student Film Festival.

Jeremy Lyon

Jeremy Lyon is Futurismic’s founder, and now spends his days designing interfaces for Palm. At night he writes fiction that has been rejected from some of the finest publications in the world.


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