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Tweet As a usability expert (and I really am, I kid you not), I am astonished at how bad the user interface on Windows 8 is. It’s not just a bit bad, it is staggeringly, shockingly bad. It breaks just about every principle of good UI design – many of which have been well known [...] Tweet (This review first appeared in The New York Journal of Books.) In a future not so far away, the Mechanism keeps the peace, augmented reality is commonplace across the solar system, and people are fitted with mandatory neural “enhancements” to make us better citizens. Africa, one of the dominant continents of the 22nd century, [...] Tweet (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) About 100 years ago, our understanding of the universe was rocked when Einstein’s theory of relativity was published. Yet even as the world came to grips with this astonishing insight, another even less intuitive and more complex model of reality, quantum theory, was [...] Tweet I came across this article recently in SF Signal. It is about how to adapt literary criticism so that it can be applied to science fiction. Sadly, I just don’t get it. I mean, I understand the article and what the author is saying, but I don’t see why on earth anyone would be [...] Tweet (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) Dan Simmons is an excellent writer and a serious man, someone who thinks about what it all means and isn’t embarrassed to explore the mystical as well as the harder edges of reality. Anyone who has read his science fiction novels would know [...] Tweet (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) Jim DeFelice hardly needs any introduction to lovers of techno-thrillers. And for the fans, his new book The Helios Conspiracy is not likely to be a disappointment. A monomaniacal scientist with plans to save the world from the looming energy crisis by launching [...] Tweet (This review first appeared in The New York Journal of Books.) Quantum theory has a bad rap. It is a by-word for strangeness. It is arguably the main reason why so few people understand or trust science anymore. So a book that promises “to demystify quantum theory” is offering something quite special. Its authors, [...] Tweet (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) As the world’s financial systems crumble about our ears, it may be a good time to reflect on the perils of automatic trading. For all the rules and safeguards in all the stock exchanges of the world, isn’t it just possible that in [...] Tweet Last weekend (was that just three days ago?) I had a free book giveaway on Amazon for my time travel thriller, TimeSplash (that’s it in the left-hand column if you want to pick up a copy). As my previous post says, it was an exciting moment. A book that had spent almost two years [...] |
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