Straylight

Straylight Magazine interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).

November 2009 2009

Sturgeon's Sylva Wycke, though loving and benevolent, is none-the-less the literary ancestor of Asimov's Solarians (in his Elijah Bailey Robot novels) or the Tessier-Ashpools in the Villa Straylight space station in William Gibson's Neuromancer who are so rich and so far above the rules and challenges of the rest of humanity that they have in effect become alien.

MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2) 2009

Straylight Magazine interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).

SF Tidbits for 11/23/09 2009

Ar - mitage was routing the transmissions from London to Straylight through the Hosaka on the yacht.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

Straylight smelled faintly musty, faintly per - fumed, like a church.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

Case watched the blank wall that screened Straylight.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

So it looks like they link via Straylight, the T-A home base, down the end of the spindle, and we're supposed to cut our way in with the Chinese icebreaker.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

Straylight was crazy, was craziness grown in the resin concrete they'd mixed from pulverized lunar stone, grown in welded steel and tons of knick-knacks, all the bizarre impe - dimentia they'd shipped up the well to line their winding nest.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

He won - dered vaguely if Tessier-Ashpool had selected each piece of Straylight individually, or if they'd purchased it in bulk from some vast European equivalent of Metro Holografix.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

Straylight bled air and water out of Freeside, and had no ecosystem of its own.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010