Archive for 2004
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Sunday, September 12th, 2004
by Steven Johnson
ISBN: 0684868768
Ants -- and slime mold -- are more interesting, and more intelligent, than I ever would have guessed. Their intelligence isn't the same as human intelligence, as
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
by George Saunders
ISBN: 1573225797
Saunders writes sick, funny stories.
In the six stories and one novella in this collection, culture has collapsed. Capitalism has run amok, slavery is legal, and the
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Conversation #1
Tuesday, August 31st, 2004
by James Kochalka and Craig Thompson
available from Top Shelf Comics
James Kochalka has published mini format comics before, but none as slick as this collaboration with Craig Thompson. Five inches
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God’s Fool
Monday, August 30th, 2004
by Mark Slouka
ISBN: 0375702091
This story of two brothers ranges from the monsoon-wracked Meklong in Siam to high society Paris to flophouses in London to the Civil War-torn American South. The
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