1. Name: Marlin May 2. Location: Lowell, MA3. 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 SFCyberpunk60's / 70's New WaveWhatever else tickles my fancy. The bigger the ideas, the better. 5. Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: The Stars My DestinationDo Androids Dream of Electric SheepStars in My Pockets Like Grains of SandBabel 17The Einstein IntersectionStand on ZanzibarThe Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the UnbelieverThe Illuminatus TrilogyTowing JehovahBlameless in AbaddonThe Eternal Footman and onand on 6. Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Samuel DelanyJames MorrowDavid BrinGeorge ZebrowskiJohn BrunnerJack WilliamsonWilliam GibsonRobert ForwardGreg Bear and so onand so on 7. Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: 8. Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book: BladerunnerAkira2001Forbidden Planet 9. Topics of importance to you: TranshumanismGenetic EngineeringCommunications, Telecommunications and the The NoosphereEconomic DevelopmentSpace 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: none12. Your web site: see below13. Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: more on this later 14. Memberships in science fiction clubs: NESFALASFS
15. Anything else you think is important: I'm not an academic, at least not a professional academic. I haven't studied Foucault, Lacan, or Derrida, but I have some idea of deconstructive analysis. I have, however, 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
