{"id":307,"date":"2009-02-28T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=307"},"modified":"2011-07-14T05:47:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T13:47:19","slug":"unclouded-by-conscience-remorse-or-delusions-of-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Unclouded by Conscience, Remorse, or Delusions of Morality."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hplus\"At least, that’s how Paul McEnery describes the “viscera of human relationships” presented throughout my novels in his intro to my interview in the latest issue of h+<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The man treats me well:\u00a0 the interview itself is chopped way down from our original Q&A (which makes some of my answers seem a bit, well, jittery), but his intro is both\u00a0 very kind and visceral in its own right.\u00a0 I heartily approve of “The Overextended Phenotype” as a title,\u00a0 a nifty little reference both to Dawkins and to my rifters.\u00a0 (“Neurogunk”, maybe I’m not so sold on.)\u00a0 And as an added bonus, McEnery opens the article that follows\u2014 “Pathology Precedes Potential”\u2014 with a nice little tie-in relating the esoteric themes in my work to their mainstream incarnations in shows like House<\/em>, Dexter<\/em>, and Battlestar Galactica<\/em>1<\/sup>.\u00a0 Anybody who publicly invokes my name to lead in to those shows has got a free pitcher coming to him should we ever end up in the same hotel bar.<\/p>\n

And h+<\/em> overall?\u00a0 Very slick, and freely available (this issue at least) in online and\u00a0 downloadable PDF formats, although the layout\u2014 right down to ad design and faux-page-turning effects\u2014 strongly suggests old-school dead-tree media.\u00a0 The graphic design is a joy and the content is topical (Vernor Vinge, reputation economies, the usual neuro and cyber stuff)\u2014\u00a0 although judging by the promotional puff-piece Tara Hunt did on her upcoming book The Whuffie Factor<\/em>, the articles may not go into a whole lot of depth.<\/p>\n

Actually,\u00a0 what h+<\/em> really seems to be channelling is the spirit of eighties-era\u00a0 Omni<\/em>.\u00a0 And in case you’re wondering, I mean that in a good way.\u00a0 I haven’t yet had a chance to do more than skim the issue, but I intend to give it a thorough working over once these damn stats are out of the way.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

1<\/sup>Which, I am glad to note, seems to have gotten back on track this week after a couple of wobbly missteps.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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