New media fictions, and a few more stories: Noon, Egan, Anders, Walton, Ryman

"You've become a ghost" (Masters of the Obvious)

Charlie Jane Anders's "Six Months, Three Days."

Anders's story "Love Might Be Too Strong a Word." CJA's day job.

I have been asked to show you this super villain. And yes, of course superhero comics are science fiction. Here's my favorite right now.

About the Angel of the North. Looking right at the Angel.

Jo Walton's sad meta-sf.

Walton's less sad, book-length meta-sf, also reviewed by Le Guin.

SF is time travel: forwards, backwards and sideways, including alternate histories.

SF is also an http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/fire-emergency-escape-ladder-13664131.jpg">escape from history.

The Hitler wins topos/trope/meme. The map of America in the most famous Hitler wins story, now a TV show too.

SF is an experiment whose control is not just the real world; it's also other genres.

You can experiment with alternate phenotypes, but also with alternate language.

An earlier innovation in physical substrate that clearly affected what sf writers did.

An even earlier innovation.

Egan's "Black Box," Paste Magazine online version.

Egan's "Black Box" in the original Twitter version thanks to Storify.

The New Yorker interviews Egan about "Black Box."

To read the famous or infamous PowerPoint chapter from Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, go to her own main site and click on the extreme right-hand label "Great Rock and Roll Pauses." You may also be able to view the chapter here.

More material from and about Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad.

A story about spies. Another story about ghosts.

You can go back to your body, or you can end up in the night sky.

Joe Winkler's Twitter-style review of Egan's "Black Box."

Nick Montfort (and collaborators') interactive fiction. His monograph (2003-05) on interactive fiction.

The first widely influential interactive fiction.

Planetfall, by John Burnett. Burnett's main site. (Warning: may start audio automatically.)

Jeff Noon's Metamorphiction main site.

Noon's Microspores, main site.

Noon's Microspore 05: "This machine consists of twenty-six..."

The ghostly feel of obsolete or obsolescent technology.

Noon's Sparkletown and The Fog Catchers.

Noon's source story for "spore:Mix."

Noon's instructions for remixed fiction.

The @jeffnoon Twitter feed. The @echovirus12 feed.

An interview with Noon, from a zine in London.

Why is Mab called Mab?

Love might be… Petrarchism. Or it might be a lot of other things that turn you on.

A vivid dream, with another angel.