Sci Fi Mags

Picked up a copy of Asimov’s Sci Fi and Analog. I think I’m going to subscribe. Not bad, not too great.

Some of the ’singularity’ sci fi is really getting on my nerves. Non-temporal, non-corporeal existance is too hard a concept to grasp, let alone write about in a linear, most tangible, set of paper.

Of course, the real crux of these stories are solipsism (represented by simulated, or computed, reality) vs empericism (represented by physical, or corporeal, reality), and all that neat stuff. But, digit here doesn’t fancy himself to be in a vat, and so I’ll continue reading the old school sci-fi and occasionaly come back to the singularity stuff when my brain is up to it.

’Wang’s Carpet’ by Greg Egan is a good singularity story that explores solipsism in a rather neat way. Nice twist of an ending.