Lawrence Person's Links Page
Here's my chance to add a few dendric branches to the WorldMind. Lots
and lots of links,
but this is all text so it should load relatively quickly. Like the
rest of my web site, this is under construction, so some of the
internal links (especially to Nova Express pages) may not be active
yet. Caveat Surftor
Science Fiction
General SF Sites
Other SF Writers
Some of these people are friends of mine, some are just writers whose
work I admire.
- Here's the home page for Greg Egan,
Australian recluse,
java-aplet writer, and perhaps the best (and hardest) SF writer in
the world today. I also recommend this
excellent interview with him.
- Gene Wolfe doesn't seem to have an official web page up,
but you can find and awful lot of discussion about him on the
Urth and Whorl mailing lists.
Indeed, Wolfe's work seems inspiring plumbing it to near-Talmudic
depths, as can be seen on
this page discussing
The Fifth Head of Cerebus.
And here's a link to the Nova Express
interview with Wolfe.
- The fact that Howard Waldrop doesn't even own a computer
doesn't mean he can't have his own web page. But he's now back here in Austin, hurrah!) (A Turkey Citizen.)
- Here's the blog for the Chairman of cyberpunk and my fellow Turkey Citizen,
Bruce
Sterling. Not only does Bruce get paid to blog for
Wired, they also pay him to fly off to exotic locals at several
grand a pop. Must be hell.
- Speaking of blogs, here's Neil
Gaiman's online journal.
When not deploying his formidable writing talents,
Neil exhibits a level of graciousness the rest of us rough scribblers
can only aspire to.
- The web page for Joe R.
Lansdale, His Ownself,
where you can learn which nine or ten new books Joe has coming out this year.
Joe was one of the instructors at a writing workshop I attended many
moons ago, as was...
- Lewis Shiner.
- Walter Jon
William's home page. He writes, he scubas, he does martial arts,
he's sings, he dances, and he sues large corporations trying to screw
him over. What's not to like?
- Behold the Ribbofunk master himself, Paul Di Filippo! (Another Turkey Citizen.)
- Patrick O'Leary, author of the excellent first novel, Door Number
Three
.
- Sean Stewart,
author of The Night Watch and Galveston,
among other fine works.
- Andy
Duncan, two-time World Fantasy Award winner
and yet another Turkey Citizen.
- Brad
Denton's page.
- The lovely and talented Fiona
Kelleghan,
just getting started as a published SF writer, but already a
formidable reviewer and critic in
Nova Express and elsewhere.
- Chris Nakashima-Brown, annointed as The Chosen One by Bruce Sterling among the current crop of Turkey City strivers.
- And finally, a short list of SF writers who don't seem to have a web
page of their own, but should: William Browning Spencer, Don Webb.
Books and Book Collecting
Friends
Believe it or not, I do actually have some friends outside the
science fiction field. Of course, almost all of them read science
fiction...
Macintosh
You too can feel smugly superior to users of inferior computer systems...
What Passes For Humor These Days
- The Onion, your
number one source for accurate, unbiased news.
- FARK.com, updated hourly for
links to the latest satire, naughty pictures, news of human
stupidity, and cheese-eating
surrender monkeys.
- Penny Arcade, the web comic that casts an appropriately jaundiced eye upon the world of computer gaming.
- The "winners" of the Bulwer-Lytton contest, to write the worst
opening sentence to a non-existant novel, can be found here. I've now won a Dishonorable
Mention three years running ...
- Join the struggle to ban the "silent killer,"
Dihydrogen Monoxide.
- Now you can create meaningless
decontructionist cant in the privacy of your own home
without enduring 10 soul-destroying years getting a PhD in
Semiotics!
- Chris Muir has provided a little script for anyone to display his excellent comic strip. How can I resist?
- Mr. Cranky, who reviews
movies the way most of them deserve to be reviewed.
Geek News Sources
The one and only Slashdot,
where I've maxed out my karma.
Web Animation
Political Links
AntiSpam Links
Since I've had at least one e-mail address rendered useless by a
never-ending wave of Korean spam,
I'm quite keen on seeing spammers removed from the Internet by any
means necessary
(preferably ones involving nine inch nails, a sledge hammer, a Bic
lighter, and a can of gasoline).
- Spamcop, where you can
report the spam you've received.
- Sam Spade, where you can track down the
people responsible for spam.
Go to Lawrence Person's main page
Send mail to Lawrence Person (LPERSON1@austin.rr.com).
Like every other web page in the universe, this one is Under Construction.
