On 23 December 2011 08:51, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am having a number of interesting conversations as a result of sending
> out my usual year-end note. What follows is [part of] one such.
>
> John Sundman [1] is an author whom some of you might know, either in
> person or through his work. (e.g., here is a post about him from our
> resident open-source anthropologist, Chris Kelty [2])
>
>
>From another site:
So totally intriguing. Off to buy the book. 4.5 stars on Amazon too.
A NON-LINEAR TRILOGY
Acts of the Apostles is book “blue” of Mind Over Matter, an ambitious
three-volume work that share similar themes, characters and settings.
Because these books can be read in any order, they are not numbered but
instead marked by color.
- *Acts of the Apostles* (Mind over Matter volume blue)
- A techno-thriller about the abuse of nano and bio-technology.
- *Cheap Complex Devices* (Mind over Matter volume red)
- A rambling monologue supposedly written by a computer (or a mind in
a vat, or a swarm of bees, or a man shot in the head and connected to a
computer). The story is kind of a slow motion reboot, a person coming out
of a dream, an entity that is coming to sanity, wholeness, self-awareness.
- *The Pains* (Mind over Matter volume black)
- An illustrated 1984-type dystopian featuring alternate-universe
version of some key characters from Acts of the Apostles. Also included:
cryogenically-preserved severed human heads and Ronald Reagan
