1. Name: Marlin May 2. Location: Lowell, MA
3. Nickname/ Alias: You'll see me around the net as "Zentinal". Most Zentinals are me, for example I'm Zentinal Zisky in SL, but alas, not all Zentinals are me. If you see a Zentinel, with an "e", it definitely isn't me. 4. Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: Hard SF Cyberpunk 60's / 70's New Wave Whatever else tickles my fancy. The bigger the ideas, the better. 5. Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: The Stars My Destination Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand Babel 17 The Einstein Intersection Stand on Zanzibar The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever The Illuminatus Trilogy Towing Jehovah Blameless in Abaddon The Eternal Footman Brother to Demons, Brother to Gods The Ultimax Man Man Plus and on and on 6. Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Samuel Delany James Morrow David Brin George Zebrowski John Brunner Jack Williamson William Gibson Robert Forward Greg Bear and so on and so on 7. Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: Green Lantern - John Stewart Aragorn John Sheridan Bron Helstrom Damocles Montgomerie 8. Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: Bladerunner Akira 2001 Forbidden Planet The Fifth Element Memento 9. Topics of importance to you: Transhumanism Genetic Engineering Communications, Telecommunications and the The Noosphere Economic Development Space Development / Colonization 10. Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative Fiction: Underrepresented, of course. 11. Your own published works, if any: none 12. Your web site: see below 13. Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: more on this later 14. Memberships in science fiction clubs: NESFA LASFS 15. Anything else you think is important: I'm not an academic, at least not a professional academic. I have been reading science fiction, science fact, and a smattering of fantasy for over 40 of my (soon to be) 47 years. I've joined this list after reading about it here - http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/07/31/ race_the_final_frontier/ - I then had to run out to grab the paper. I've got to chew on it a bit before I blog about it. Marlin http://www.doublefeature.com/unconventionaut/ http://www.newears.org - on hiatus yahoo! messenger = zentinal
