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Floyd examined one of the pictures of Susan White. It was a full-length shot of her standing up against a backdrop of railings, with the elongated blur of a horse passing behind. She was holding on to her pillbox hat as if the wind had been about to snatch it away. She was laughing, startled and happy. She did not look like someone who would be dead in a few weeks.— Century Rain by Alistair Reynolds http://voxish.tripod.com/ 4 months ago
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Thalience is an attempt to give nature a voice without that voice being ours in disguise. It is the only way for an artificial intelligence to be grounded in a self-identity that is truly independent of its creator’s.— http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/thalience 4 months ago
ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 39
David Apatoff is the man. Breaking down Howard Pyle. His site is a gold mine of knowledge.




