he Radio Phonics Laboratory explores the intersection of technology and creativity that shaped the sonic landscape of the 20th century. This fascinating story unravels the intricate threads of telecommunications, from the invention of the telephone to the advent of global communication networks.
At the heart of the narrative is the evolution of speech synthesis, a groundbreaking innovation that not only revolutionised telecommunications but also birthed a new era in electronic music. Tracing the origins of synthetic speech and its applications in various fields, the book unveils the pivotal role it played in shaping the artistic vision of musicians and sound pioneers.
Available from Velocity Press.
At the heart of the narrative is the evolution of speech synthesis, a groundbreaking innovation that not only revolutionised telecommunications but also birthed a new era in electronic music. Tracing the origins of synthetic speech and its applications in various fields, the book unveils the pivotal role it played in shaping the artistic vision of musicians and sound pioneers.
Available from Velocity Press.
Frederick Moe's zine in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of Skybird Radio's revamp, Free Radio Skybird, a radio project continuing the legacy of Gary Bourgeois' early online radio station of eccentricities. Look at it as a document of modern weirdo radio history. 30 pages, half-letter size. Available from Antiquated Future.
This 'zine features my Radiophonic Laboratory essay on Holger Czukay as well as an interview with me by Frederick Moe.
This 'zine features my Radiophonic Laboratory essay on Holger Czukay as well as an interview with me by Frederick Moe.
My story "A Chi Town Doctor" is now available in the anthology: The Flesh of Your Future Sticks Between my Teeth: Stories from the Gristle Cli-Fi Parody Contest, edited & introduced by John Michael Greer" and published by Looseleaf Publishing.
Here is the blurb from the publisher:
"12 UNBELIEVABLE TRICKS to SAVE THE PLANET
“The climate is going to explode! T-minus ten minutes.”
“Quick! We have to do something!”
“It’s no use. The “SAVE PLANET” button is too far away.”
“Then we finish our popcorn, get off the couch, and walk if we have to.”
Join John Michael Greer (Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush) for this anthology of genre-founding climate-fiction parodies, bursting with twelve improbable visions of future solutions to every existential problem. The world’s predicaments are plenty real, but our current solutions—“raising awareness” and being “intersectional,” mostly—aren’t helping much. How about some irreverent new futures, like …
The world’s richest Karrenn butting heads with Sweden’s most entitled environmental wunderkind
More than you ever wanted to know about a future industry that puts people (into the grinding machine) first
All the trouble that ensues after a chance discovery at the Australian Wildlife Fund gives the world its wish for limitless energy
And 9 more iconoclastic futures guaranteed to bust blood vessels in the foreheads of true believers in the latest way to Save the World Without Really Trying.
The coming decades of the Long Descent from the heights of the fossil fuel age won’t be easy, but if we can learn to laugh at ourselves, then maybe, with luck, on some far-off day we can all die with a grin."
Here is the blurb from the publisher:
"12 UNBELIEVABLE TRICKS to SAVE THE PLANET
“The climate is going to explode! T-minus ten minutes.”
“Quick! We have to do something!”
“It’s no use. The “SAVE PLANET” button is too far away.”
“Then we finish our popcorn, get off the couch, and walk if we have to.”
Join John Michael Greer (Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush) for this anthology of genre-founding climate-fiction parodies, bursting with twelve improbable visions of future solutions to every existential problem. The world’s predicaments are plenty real, but our current solutions—“raising awareness” and being “intersectional,” mostly—aren’t helping much. How about some irreverent new futures, like …
The world’s richest Karrenn butting heads with Sweden’s most entitled environmental wunderkind
More than you ever wanted to know about a future industry that puts people (into the grinding machine) first
All the trouble that ensues after a chance discovery at the Australian Wildlife Fund gives the world its wish for limitless energy
And 9 more iconoclastic futures guaranteed to bust blood vessels in the foreheads of true believers in the latest way to Save the World Without Really Trying.
The coming decades of the Long Descent from the heights of the fossil fuel age won’t be easy, but if we can learn to laugh at ourselves, then maybe, with luck, on some far-off day we can all die with a grin."
Love in the Ruins is an anthology of deindustrial science fiction romance from Founders House Publishing, edited by John Michael Greer.
“In times of such huge confusion, the little things go on. During the ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’ the cafés and theaters of Moscow and Petrograd stayed open, people fell in love, sued each other, died, shed sweat and tears; and some of the tears were tears of laughter.”
~ Theodore Sturgeon, “The Hurkle is a Happy Beast”
Many stories have been written already about the approaching end of industrial civilization: about the great tragedies and the small triumphs, about struggles spread out across landscapes and struggles just as bitter within individual hearts, about the people who survive and the ones who don’t. One theme that's been unfairly neglected in deindustrial fiction is love. As iconic SF author Theodore Sturgeon noted, the little things go on—and among those little things are human relationships, blossoming in the most unlikely settings. This anthology includes ten stories and three poems about love in the deindustrial future, by turns ethereal and earthy, traumatic and tender—but all of them ending with a promise of happily ever after...
Contents:
Introduction by John Michael Greer
Working Together by Daniel Cowan
Neighborhood Watch by Marcus Tremain
Shacked Up by Justin Patrick Moore
Courting Songs by Tanya Hobbs
At the End of the Gravel Road by Ben Johnson
The Doctor and the Priestess by Violet Bertelsen
A Nuclear Tale by Ron Mucklestone
Come Home Ere Falls the Night by Troy Jones III
Forest Princess by Al Sevick
Letters from the Ruins by C. J. Hobbs
The Legend of Josette by KL Cooke
That Which Cannot Be by David England
“In times of such huge confusion, the little things go on. During the ‘Ten Days that Shook the World’ the cafés and theaters of Moscow and Petrograd stayed open, people fell in love, sued each other, died, shed sweat and tears; and some of the tears were tears of laughter.”
~ Theodore Sturgeon, “The Hurkle is a Happy Beast”
Many stories have been written already about the approaching end of industrial civilization: about the great tragedies and the small triumphs, about struggles spread out across landscapes and struggles just as bitter within individual hearts, about the people who survive and the ones who don’t. One theme that's been unfairly neglected in deindustrial fiction is love. As iconic SF author Theodore Sturgeon noted, the little things go on—and among those little things are human relationships, blossoming in the most unlikely settings. This anthology includes ten stories and three poems about love in the deindustrial future, by turns ethereal and earthy, traumatic and tender—but all of them ending with a promise of happily ever after...
Contents:
Introduction by John Michael Greer
Working Together by Daniel Cowan
Neighborhood Watch by Marcus Tremain
Shacked Up by Justin Patrick Moore
Courting Songs by Tanya Hobbs
At the End of the Gravel Road by Ben Johnson
The Doctor and the Priestess by Violet Bertelsen
A Nuclear Tale by Ron Mucklestone
Come Home Ere Falls the Night by Troy Jones III
Forest Princess by Al Sevick
Letters from the Ruins by C. J. Hobbs
The Legend of Josette by KL Cooke
That Which Cannot Be by David England
This cycle of poems emerged in parallel to a series of dreams and visionary journeys into the underworld. The words were recovered, like aspects of soul which had gone missing, from the sewers beneath the streets of Cincinnati's seven ancient hills. Once these missing parts had been restored to the body that had been torn apart, deeper sources of pure mineral water were sought in the hollow places deep in the earths interior, where Underground Rivers are known to flow. Published by Sothis Medias own Oneiric Imprint.
The paperback book is available from the above link for a reasonable price. I have also decided to make this book available as a free PDF, below.
The paperback book is available from the above link for a reasonable price. I have also decided to make this book available as a free PDF, below.
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My article The Library Angel & Her Oracle is available in issue #4 of Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies from Fulgur Limited.
Edited by Robert Ansell and Christina Oakley Harrington, Abraxas Journal Issue #4 offers 192 large format pages of essays, poetry, interviews and art. Printed using state-of-the-art offset lithography to our usual high standard, contributions for Abraxas #4 include a previously unpublished manuscript by Austin Osman Spare entitled Fragmentum presented here in facsimile over 30 pages; a special feature on the Italian artist and mystic Agostino Arrivabene; dramatic images of urban vodou from photographer Shannon Taggart; an interview by Sarah Victoria Turner with Christine Ödlund that discusses her art practice, synaesthesia and Theosophy; explorations of the symbolism of the tarot Fool from Valentin Wolfstein, an experiment in urban sigils from the London-based artist Francesca Ricci, and more.
Edited by Robert Ansell and Christina Oakley Harrington, Abraxas Journal Issue #4 offers 192 large format pages of essays, poetry, interviews and art. Printed using state-of-the-art offset lithography to our usual high standard, contributions for Abraxas #4 include a previously unpublished manuscript by Austin Osman Spare entitled Fragmentum presented here in facsimile over 30 pages; a special feature on the Italian artist and mystic Agostino Arrivabene; dramatic images of urban vodou from photographer Shannon Taggart; an interview by Sarah Victoria Turner with Christine Ödlund that discusses her art practice, synaesthesia and Theosophy; explorations of the symbolism of the tarot Fool from Valentin Wolfstein, an experiment in urban sigils from the London-based artist Francesca Ricci, and more.
