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dissidents. mccarthy would be so proud. Posted by wil at June 15,2002 0940 PM Comments. wil, I completely agree with you! Some
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Extractions: home faq about contact ... wish Main June 15, 2002 Metafilter was the first to share this story from the democratic underground. It seems that Bush was speaking at Ohio State University's graduation. The students were told that they were expected to provide a "thunderous" ovation and if they disrupted the ceremonies in any way, they'd be arrested. That's right. At a public college, the students would be arrested and expelled if they expressed their unhappiness with George W. Bush. One student, who exercised his constitutionally-protected 1st amendment right of free speech, and turned his back on Bush tells his story here Let's get something straight, because I'm really tired of being told to "move to Afghanistan" because I'm "anti-American": If we allow the Bush Administration to goose-step all over our civil rights, and we sit back quietly while Ashcroft dances all over the constitution, we no longer have a country worth fighting for. Things like this transcend political ideology, IMHO. It doesn't matter if it's the Democrats or the Republicans who are currently in charge.
SF > Reviews > Wil McCarthy
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Extractions: David Sanger is a young nanotechnology researcher, off to a conference to give a paper about his latest inventions. But things start to go very wrong: his arch enemy assaults him, and is later found murdered, with David as prime suspect. Then someone trashes his lab and steals all his work. David must race to find the solution before he too ends up dead. We get a good view of a nearish-future world, where technology is omnipresent, and where an over-protective government, influenced by the Gray Party vote, is stifling most peoples' lives, without really solving any social problems (but the politics is a bit too heavy handed). We get lots of nice details of nanotechnology, of how the machines are built, how they work and what they are for. The rivalry between the 'mechanical' and 'biological' approaches is key, with our hero dismissively referring to the exponents of the latter as playing origami with pond slime . And we get some fun scenes in a full immersion VR game. But the murder mystery part doesn't fully gel for me.
Wil McCarthy's BLOOM
wil mccarthy's. BLOOM. wil mccarthy makes ideas jump. Bloom grabsyou from very first scene and doesn't let go till the last page.
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Extractions: Mycora: Technogenic life. Fast-reproducing, fast-mutating, and endlessly voracious. In the year 2106, these microscopic machine/creatures have escaped their creators to populate the inner solar system with a wild, deadly ecology all their own, pushing the tattered remnants of humanity out into the cold and dark of the outer planets. Even huddled beneath the ice of Jupiter's moons, protected by a defensive system known as the Immunity, survivors face the constant risk of mycospores finding their way into the warmth and brightness inside the habitats, resulting in a calamitous "bloom." But the human race still has a trick or two up its sleeves; in a ship specially designed to penetrate the deadly Mycosystem, seven astronauts are about to embark on mankind's boldest venture yet the perilous journey home to infected Earth! Awards, Citations, Etc.
Wil McCarthy's THE COLLAPSIUM
wil mccarthy's. wil mccarthy is a certified science fiction treasure, a realliferocket scientist with a gorgeous writing style and rapier wit to boot.
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Extractions: In the eighth decade of the Queendom of Sol, three commodities rule the day. The first is wellstone, a form of programmable matter capable of emulating almost any substance: natural, artificial, even hypothetical. The second is collapsium, a deadly crystal composed of miniature black holes, vital for the transmission of information and matter including humans throughout the solar system. The third is the bitter rivalry between Her Majesty's top scientists. Bruno de Towaji, famed lover and statesman, dreams of building an arc de fin , an almost mythical device capable of probing the farthest reaches of spacetime. Marlon Sykes, de Towaji's rival in both love and science, is meanwhile hard at work on a vast telecommunications project whose first step is the construction of a ring of collapsium around the sun. But when a ruthless saboteur attacks the Ring Collapsiter and sends it falling into the sun, the two scientists must put aside personal animosity and combine their prodigious intellects to prevent the destruction of the solar system... and every living thing within it. Awards, Citations, Etc.
BLOOM By Wil McCarthy: About The Author
ABOUT wil mccarthy. wil mccarthy's Web site for more on the wil mccarthy's publishedwork, a few pictures, his CV, and occasional rants on various topics.
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Extractions: >>THE BOOK >>EXCERPTS >>THE AUTHOR >>INTERVIEW ... >>QUIZ Hardware is a Titan Stage 1 motor assembly, capable of generating over half a million pounds of thrust when it isn't upside-down in a parking lot. Human is Wil McCarthy. The Who: Wil McCarthy, pale-colored, 31-year-old human of largely Celtic extraction, plus traces of Judaea, America, and good old-fashioned Mutt. Father of infant Quentin McCarthy, and husband of Cathy McCarthy. Background in the hard sciences (notably astrodynamics), with armchair enthusiasms for "soft" sciences such as neurology, molecular biology, and linguistics. The Where: I was born in Princeton, NJ, on September 16th, 1966, moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1971, to Colorado Springs in 1978, and back to New Jersey again in 1983 for my senior year of high school and a couple of memorable summer vacations. In 1984 I moved to Boulder to attend the University of Colorado, after which I came to Denver and then its suburb, Lakewood. In between, I've traveled. Wil's top 5 work-related Web sites: Wil's favorite nanotechnology link The What: The How: In all my writings, look for examinations of the way that changeespecially (but not exclusively) technological changeaffects human interaction. Look for these examinations to be wrapped in fast-moving storylines, the better to hold a reader's attention.
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Wil McCarthy - Author Information, Books, And News
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Extractions: Western Bibliography - Fiction Books by Wil McCarthy Jump Directly to series: Book Info Bloom Science Fiction Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Flies from the Amber (©1995) 299 pp. Fantasy Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Aggressor Six Science Fiction Military Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Murder In The Solid State (©1998) 288 pp. Science Fiction Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB The Wellstone Science Fiction Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Bloom By Wil McCarthy, A Hard Science Fiction Book
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Extractions: Mycora: technogenic life. Fast-reproducing, fast-mutating, and endlessly voracious. In the year 2106, these microscopic machine/creatures have escaped their creators to populate the inner solar system with a wild, deadly ecology all their own, pushing the tattered remnants of humanity out into the cold and dark of the outer planets. Even huddled beneath the ice of Jupiter's moons, protected by a defensive system known as the Immunity, survivors face the constant risk of mycospores finding their way to the warmth and brightness inside the habitats, resulting in a calamitous "bloom."
Wil Mccarthy
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SciFan: Writer: Wil McCarthy (bibliography, Books, Series, Web Links)
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SCIFI.COM Chat Transcripts: Kathleen Ann Goonan & Wil McCarthy, May 4, 2000
Nanotechnology II Kathleen Ann Goonan wil mccarthy. ModeratorOK oof. There we are. Kathleen, wil, can you type? wil Too
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Extractions: Moderator : OK ... oof. There we are. Kathleen, Wil, can you type? Wil : Too bad Linda Nagata couldn't make it. Wil : Am I visible? Goonan : It is really a shame. But everyone must read her books! Moderator : Yes. You look great! Moderator : Both of you. Mahvellous. Wil : It's the light Moderator : (He said, attempting to emulate Gardner Dozois) Goonan : new haircut. Moderator : Hi everyone thanks for joining us here tonight. We're talking with Kathleen Ann Goonan and Wil McCarthy, two v-e-r-y i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g authors who have both dealt extensively with the topic of Nanotechnology in their fictional works. Nanotechnology, simply stated, is engineering and technology on a scale so minute that it deals with the manipulation of individual molecules and atoms, and is perhaps most familiar from the wortru Moderator : ks of K. Eric Drexler. Moderator : Kathleen Ann Goonan's many works include the Nanotech or 'Jazz' trilogy which includes QUEEN CITY JAZZ, MISSISSIPPI BLUES and the most recent volume, CRESCENT CITY RHAPSODY. Wil McCarthy is known to SCIFI.COM aficionados as the author of the 'Lab Notes' column in SciFi Weekly, and is the author of BLOOM, MURDER IN THE SOLID STATE, and the soon-to-be released THE COLLAPSIUM. Wil : Yo.
Wil McCarthy, Bloom
wil mccarthy, Bloom (Del Rey, 1998). Many fashionable Victorians owneda device through which they viewed photoreduced reproductions
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Extractions: Many fashionable Victorians owned a device through which they viewed photo-reduced reproductions of such things as monuments, royalty and even text abstracts. The bottom dropped right out of the market when Louis Pasteur's germ theory of disease bred paranoia and fear of a miniature invisible enemy. In Wil McCarthy's Bloom , a character makes a similar inference on encountering chunky electronic components aboard an interplanetary ship. In this case the aversion results from humanity's experience with technogenic life, the mycora, a nano-technology which slipped the leash of human control on Earth and ate everything and everyone, breaking them down to constituent components. Before the end came, a remnant of humankind managed to get off the planet so that at the beginning of the novel, when we meet one such evacuee, John Strasheim, he has spent 20 years on the Jupiter moon Ganymede, living and working within a society which is, understandably, totally focused on survival. The intermittent arrival of mycora spores on the solar wind from the consumed inner solar system is working to keep everyone sharp. Strasheim, the first-person narrator, is a shoemaker and, yes, his tale is in many ways a heroic one. For John's special talent for reportage means that he is exalted to join a select, specially chosen band who will journey into the Mycosystem, the inner planets of the solar system now completely colonized by the fast evolving mycora. They make the journey in a ship (the
Wil McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, Editors, Once Upon A Galaxy
wil mccarthy, Martin H. Greenberg John Helfers, editors, Once Upona Galaxy (DAW, 2002). This collection of 14 scifi stories, all
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Extractions: This collection of 14 sci-fi stories, all loosely based on classic fairy tales, is what is typically referred to as a "beach read," which means that it is not bad, but probably not destined to become a classic, either. These stories are easy to read, entertaining, but ultimately forgettable. For an afternoon of relaxed reading, this book is perfect buy it. If you are looking for a serious literary adventure, however, keep shopping. A common theme through many of the stories is the way that unknown technology can seem like magic. As Wil McCarthy wrote in his introduction: Even as a child I was bothered by the fact that fairy tales, without exception, hinge on a supernatural occurrence. I had waited and waited for a supernatural occurrence in my own life, some little sparkle of magic, but it never quite seemed to happen. And in a way, this seemed to undermine the authority of fairy tales, to relegate them to some other, slightly parallel universe where things like that could really happen. As an adult, he came to realize that those magical events could actually be the result of technology, whether real or hypothetical.
Wil McCarthy: Bloom
Bloom. by wil mccarthy. In the early twentysecond century, nanotech gonewild has more or less eaten the Earth and the entire inner Solar System.
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Extractions: Epiphyte Book Review up to review index In the early twenty-second century, nanotech gone wild has more or less eaten the Earth and the entire inner Solar System. The surviving humans fled to the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter, where they fight a constant battle against spores, known as mycora, from the inner system. Mankind is close to extinction, and not very happy about it. The inhabitants of the moons of Jupiter call themselves the Immunity. When it's discovered that humans are actually engineering some of the lethal spores to overcome the countermeasures, the Immunity prepares a mission back into the deadly Mycosystem to discover how the mycora are evolving, and what has become of the Earth. The Immunity is an interesting, if dour, society, entirely preoccupied with staying alive and fighting the spores. Their caverns are powered by the ladderdown reactor, which allows them to convert elements into others lower down on the periodic table. This results in an abundance of metals with low atomic numbers; gold is used to pave the streets and weight low-gravity shoes. Along with the low population, this has resulted in an economy where the most valuable commodities are uranium and manpower. John Strasheim is a shoemaker by trade and an amateur journalist by preference in a society that can't spare the manpower for professional journalism. He's awarded the uncomfortable honor of serving as mission correspondent on the voyage, which he's well aware is the next best thing to a suicide mission. McCarthy occasionally gets a bit overly cute with Strasheim's multimedia narrative, describing the camera shots, graphics, and technical detail that are supposed to accompany the text we're reading. A little of that sort of thing goes a long way.
Wil McCarthy: Murder In The Solid State
Epiphyte Book Review, up to review index. Murder In the Solid State.by wil mccarthy. David Sanger is a rising young nanotech researcher
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Extractions: Epiphyte Book Review up to review index David Sanger is a rising young nanotech researcher; his idea of a really neat weekend is presenting papers and rubbing elbows with his idols at an international conference on molecular fabrication. However, the academic backbiting at the conference gets a bit out of hand when a rival, Big Otto Vandegroot, picks a very public fight with David and attacks him with an extensible sword (plastic, but deadly) known as a drop foil. Someone presses a drop foil into David's hand, and he manages to defend himself and dump Big Otto on his butt. Big Otto Vandegroot is a right dastardly villain who does justice to his name. His invention of a molecule detector (the "Sniffer") has made him the darling of the fascist Gray Party, and he uses his political clout to stifle his colleagues' research. By rights, he should have long waxed mustachioes to twirl. He wouldn't get to twirl them for very long, though; the morning after the fight, his body is found, and the murder weapon is the drop foil that David obligingly covered with his fingerprints the night before. Despite the title and the setup
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Wil McCarthy: Bloom - An Infinity Plus Review
Bloom by wil mccarthy (Millennium, £6.99, 310 pages, paperback; published18 May 2000.). It's good to see nanotech books finally
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Extractions: (Millennium, £6.99, 310 pages, paperback; published 18 May 2000.) It's good to see nanotech books finally beginning to proliferate on the sf shelves. As someone who read K Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation with unadulterated awe a few years back I've long been waiting for them to appear. There was something of a false start with Greg Bear's Blood Music back in, ooh, donkeys years ago; Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age failed to quite ignite the zeitgeist, and Kathleen Ann Goonan's Queen City Jazz was just too... convoluted (and had too much jazz in it for my liking). This new genre still needs a handy name to pigeonhole it though - "nanopunk" or something. Bloom sounds as though it might be the wide-screen novel nanotech sf needs to kick-start itself. The entire inner solar system has been taken over by a self-replicating nanotech (here referred to as "mycora") bloom that has converted every piece of solid matter 99% of the human race included into more nanotech. The remaining 1% of humanity has escaped to the moons of Jupiter and the more reckless ones the asteroid belt. They've managed to survive there for almost 30 years because the bloom cannot replicate nearly as efficiently in these cold outer wastes. Now, however, things are beginning to change and the first mission is being sent sunwards in a specially prepared ship.
Wil McCarthy - Bloom
The entire inner solar system has been taken over by a selfreplicating organismcalled mycora in wil mccarthy's latest novel, Bloom. wil mccarthy.
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Extractions: The entire inner solar system has been taken over by a self-replicating organism called mycora in Wil McCarthy's latest novel, Bloom . The mycora eventually bloom and become lethal to humans. This men-made horror, originally named due to its similarity to fungi, has continued to evolve and grow until it reaches the point that humans have been driven from the Earth-Moon system and a few survivors have found refuge in the asteroid belt and on Ganymede. John Strasheim, a shoemaker- cum -reporter has been assigned a mission to dive back into the inner solar system, the Mycosystem, the gauge the current status of Earth's inheritors. McCarthy tells his story through a series of excerpts from Strasheim's published works and realtime views of what Strasheim sees and does. Unfortunately, because Strasheim is a reporter, much of the first hundred pages seems to be Strasheim interviewing his colleagues aboard the starship Louis Pasteur or giving data dumps via his published writing. An extremist attack on the

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