Long way to come to invade Woking...

[arachnekallisti]

Some free reading material for slow lunch hours:

1. Rather stunning e-comic rendition of The War of the Worlds. Art by D'Israeli (Leviathan).

2. Asimov on God-concepts, afterlives, Singularity and Sufficiently Advanced Technology: The Last Question and The Last Answer.

3. SF smut from Circlet Press.

4. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making, a trippy and surreal serial novel by Cathrynne M. Valente. Has links to ebooks you have to pay money for, but which are worth it if trippy and surreal is your thing.

5. Joss Whedon gives Penny some sorely needed background, depth and characterisation. By no means perfect, but still interesting. I'd be interested to hear what you thought.

Comments

[prochytes.livejournal.com]

"The Last Question" is still one of my favourite short stories of all time (in multiple senses). It is not just that it is so clever, and has such an unforgettable last line. It is that it manages to do well and concisely what George Bernard Shaw did badly and with a ton of waffle in Back to Methuselah (I have never really been a Shavian). And Asimov was so good at writing stories as conversations.