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When I read, I am always at odds with traditional descriptions of space. “Mary came through the hallway and turned into the living room.” That kind of thing. I either want to map the house meticulously or just suspend the part of my brain that gives a shit."
Ben Greenman, in an interview with The Rumpus (so nice to know someone else feels this way, too! He certainly describes it better than I have ever been able to.) -
Here’s a fitting video for Lower Dens’s “Nova Anthem” off of Nootropics.
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For every bunch of dubiously photogenic fetal-alcohol-syndrome cases from New Jersey who get on the TV for ten minutes, there are ten times as many people at MIT inventing the future."
Warren Ellis in Abraham Riesman’s “Deathmatch on Mars” (this whole interview is fantastic, as Warren Ellis goes off on how he sees the future of manned spaceflight panning out)