This is special effects, not augmented reality, but expresses how AR would be viscerally compelling.
Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion →
by Richard Kadrey
Sort of reminds me of Simon R. Green; sort of fun, poppy demonology, and an epic adventure storyline with not-quite-epic storytelling and not-exactly-fully-developed…
Romancing the Stone-Cold Killer →
Ayn Rand’s sick admiration of sociopaths included idolizing a man who kidnapped, ransomed, murdered and mutilated a 12-year-old girl
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer →
by Jonathan L. Howard
This book contains a song about the Cthulhu Mythos to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.
Seven for a Secret →
by Elizabeth Bear
a tasty little romantic-horror bonbon following the same alternate-victorian characters from Bear’s New Amsterdam; features a young schoolgirl buried in a pile of secrets,…
Jeffrey Thomas's Portfolio: Twisted Princess →
the disney princesses reimagined, darker
ATS Video: This Divided State →
documentary about Mormons freaking out when Michael Moore was invited to speak at Utah Valley State College (near my hometown). I’m going to watch it as soon as I work up the stomach for it :(
DART suspends driver after she refuses to use bus bearing atheist ad →
Des Moines bus driver refuses to work on a bus with an atheist ad. because acknowledging the existence of other people’s religious beliefs is anti-Christian…? WTF?
Josh Keyes | Paintings and Drawings →
compelling, somehow realistic surrealist paintings. I am especially loving the octopus in “Totem II”
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) →
by Naomi Novik
I’ve never read or wanted to read one of those dragon-fantasy type books. Um, except this one, which was really good. It’s a stiff, honor-bound British adventure story of the…
Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2) →
by Naomi Novik
Laurence and Temeraire travel to China and are embroiled in Imperial politics, much to their own danger.
