Month: November 2006

Paul McAuley books

Making History After the Quiet War is over, a historian discovers that victory is far from simple. A novella published back-to-back with Stephen Baxter’s Reality Dust as part of the Gollancz Binaries series.

Whole Wide World Sex, surveillance, and Wreckless Eric ..A murder mystery set in near future London, where information is the universal currency, and some people will do anything to be able to control it. There are no spaceships or ray guns in Whole Wide World, just as there were none in McAuley’s earlier SF novel Fairyland, but the rigorous examination of the ramifications of a major issue on the future of our society make this novel every bit as much science fiction. And, in different ways, it is every bit as good. Whole Wide World is a major novel, and McAuley is one of our best.’

The Secret of Life There is life on Mars. Will it end life on Earth? A gripping near-future thriller for the Age of the Genome, blending the wonder of classic science fiction with the terrifying implications of biotechnology.

Spam filter evasion self-defeating?

might the decreasing comprehensibility of spam finally have an impact on spam click through rates? hope never dies.

the pill-peddlers and scam operators are getting ripped off, too. They think their products or scams will be advertised in a comprehensible manner, in readable emails; but instead, odd, opaque 3-word messages with “cut and paste this” lines, hidden inside filter-evasion text and bits of Project Gutenberg, are what gets delivered to the victims.