An open letter to those terrified of e-piracy, by Gary Gibson
There are many pro writers out there worried by piracy, who see the internet as the greatest illegal intellectual land-grab of all time. Here’s the deal: if you’re worried enough to want to stop it, you’re not only going to have to stop people’s internet connections, you’re also going to have to ban photocopiers, computer [...]
Burn After Reading – ‘Science Fiction, And Why It Needs Secret Decoder Rings’ by Gary Gibson
As you may have noticed, BSC been busy marshaling our special forces units, and have recently introduced Hal Duncan’s Notes from New Sodom, Charles Tan’s A Stalker’s Notebook, Matt Cibula’s 47 Miles of Barbed Wire and Keith Rawson’s taking over Short Thoughts on Short Fiction. Today we are introducing and welcoming another column/columnist at BSC! Gary Gibson is the author of such novels as Angel Stations, Against Gravity aStealing Light, and Nova War. Today he kicks off his column Burn After Reading with “Science Fiction, And Why It Needs Secret Decoder Rings”.
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