brainstorms

Wednesday June 22, 2005

accelerando: it is a hot summer tuesday...

He glances up and grabs a pigeon, crops the shot, and squirts it at his weblog to show he's arrived. The bandwidth is good here, he realizes; and it's not just the bandwidth, it's the whole scene.

this is from the opening of accelerando, one of the coolest and sharpest books of this summer. two decades ago, david langford (white dwarf) described neuromancer like this: crackles with creative energy, hammering your forebrain with ideas ... from what i have so far read, i would now like to borrow that description for accelerando.

various reviews out, one i like is rick kleffel's review.

[i do not ordinarily link to amazon, but for this book, i will make an exception.]

[alas, the pidgeon i grabbed is not from amsterdam, but from the distillery district, toronto. nikon d70 (iso 200) + nikon 28-105 f/3.5-4.5 AF D.]