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Selected Online Articles:

The Future Will Be Fast But Not Free

Steaming Video

Bright Switch

Re-Energizer

Clear the Line, I'm Sending Myself

Encryption Evader

What's It Mean to Be Human, Anyway?

The Insanity Offence

Music On Demand

Arizona Journal

The Enduring Power of Stupidity


Other Essays andArticles

Attack-Escape (1972)

Family Literature (1973)

Introduction (New Worlds #6) (1973)

Motivation Chart (1973)

Introduction (New Worlds #6) (1975)

A Visit with Isaac Asimov (1978)

Appendix: Right of Reply (Who Writes Science Fiction?) (1980)

Introduction (Who Writes Science Fiction?) (1980)

Self-Profile (1980)

The Arts: Books (Omni, Dec 1982) (1982)

The Arts: Computer Books (1982)

The Arts: Books (Omni, Dec 1983) (1983)

Profile of Rudy Rucker (1984)

Afterword (The Dream Makers) (1987)

Introduction (The Dream Makers) (1987)

Destination: Gloom (1988)

Inside Science Fiction: Ackermania (1988)

Inside Science Fiction: Inscrutable Science Fiction (1988)

On Alfred Bester, 1913-1987 (1988)

Two Kinds of Censorship (1988)

The War Bores (1988)

Homage to Narcissus (1989)

In Purely Commercial Terms (1989)

Popular Literature? (1989)

Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1989) (1989)

Taking Liberties (1989)

The Triumph of Whimsy (1989)

The Vanishing Midlist (1989)

Beyond Science Fiction (1990)

Fairly Rich, Fairly Quick (1990)

Inside Science Fiction: Too Many Books (1990)

The Island Mentality (1990)

Participative Fiction (1990)

Quantum Fiction: A Blueprint for Avoiding Literary Obsolescence (1990)

Report from Utopia (1990)

A Review of "The Kindness of Women" by J. G. Ballard (1992)

Life & Death in SF (1993)

The Carnival of Angst (1994)

In Search of Science Fiction (1994)

The Selling of SF (1994)

Why Hypertext Doesn't Really Work (1994)

The Tenacity of Fiction (1995)

The Soviet Space Auction (1996)


Reviews

The Hemingway Hoax (1990) by Joe Haldeman

Slam (1990) by Lewis Shiner

Heads (1992) by Greg Bear

The Kindness of Women (1992) by J. G. Ballard

The Hammer of God (1993) by Arthur C. Clarke

 

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