The Adam Roberts Project is an algorithm for observing the world and generating text. It belongs to the future (hence ‘futurismic’) but more specifically to a 1970s future. The future promised us by Prog. The future we have been hitherto denied.
A new year is upon us, which means in the happy lands of SF the first prize shortlists are peeking over the lip of their nests. Here’s the BSFA shortlist; Clarke, Nebula, Hugo and Phil Dick are all in the offing, sifting through 2008’s output to boil it down to a list of the best of the best.
Award shortlists are all rubbish.
Let me explain what I mean. Continue reading SF Awards – rubbish.
It is with great pleasure that I can announce that the coming week sees the first instalment of a new monthly column here at Futurismic!
Its creator is no stranger to the site – having been a regular commenter, as well as providing us a review of all of the Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist nominees for 2008 – and may well be no stranger to your bookshelves, whether in the form of his science fiction novels, criticism or histories.
Of whom do I speak? Well, let’s let The Adam Roberts Project explain it for [him/it]self, shall we?
The Adam Roberts Project is an algorithm for observing the world and generating text. It belongs to the future (hence ‘futurismic’) but more specifically to a 1970s future. The future promised us by Prog. The future we have been hitherto denied.
Among Adam Roberts Project’s previous productions are the concept albums Genesil, Land of Head-Yes, 21st Century Swiftly Man and Yellow Blue Tarkus.
Columns will be monthly and will be varied. No refunds will be offered.
The Adam Roberts Project also blogs at europrogovision.blogspot.com
Next Wednesday, we will be told why all genre fiction awards shortlists are rubbish.
Rest assured, I shall be pushing for a future column that explains the ongoing absence of our jetpacks…