Day 2 – Anathem

Kiter — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:33:21 +0000

If you have never read Wired, I suggest you buy a copy sometime. It is the best source of general information that I have found in all the print media I have read, its kind of like a Readers Digest for a new millenium. For example, a few months ago they had a story about an US mother who posed as a terrorist on the internet and had brought quite a few American terrorists to the police.

This month they had a fantastic article about Neal Stephenson and his new book, Anathem (I wonder why he dropped the extra a…). If you’ve never read any of Neal Stephenson’s books, then you really need to stay in more. Stephenson is an excellent Science Fiction writer, whos worlds span from Near Future dystopia’s like the world behind Demolition Man to philosophical escapades in the Baroque period. Apparently his new book is going to be centered around a interstellar society which is split between hyper-indulgent cosnumerists(Which in fact seems to be bordering on hedonism), and the Avaunt, a group of intellectuals who live monasterial lives cloistered in their own cities for huge amounts of times (Think years, decades, centuries and even millenia).

Interesting stuff, I’ll report back when I eventually buy the book (And yes, I did scavenge most of this information from Wired; I didn’t want to check Wikipedia because it usually has a very poor synopsis)

Plox Read :)

Kiter — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:55:02 +0000

Hello peoples of the internets

Plox Sector is my blog, my expression to the other people out there. Its going to be my communicative-base of creativity to the internet, and also it will be my emotive outlet

This is probably my fifth blog, (so I should be getting good at it soon….) I just find that I don’t really commit to the blog and I lose the creative will to write after a short period of time.

Anyway, bad start but whatever.

Thanks!