things to read, re-read, reflect, disject, etc+

• Philip K Dick (z�. Universe Building)
• Greg Egan
• strugazki brothers
• Stanislaw Lem
• Vernor Vinge (xc. TrueNames, The Singularity)
• Iain Banks (aka Iain M. Banks / / Culture Ships)
• Bruce Sterling (pope/emperor with clothes of Viridian Green)
• Neal Stephenson

John Sundman has excerpts online, from “Acts of the Apostles” + “Cheap Complex Devices” http://wetmachine.com/

Charles Stross's book 'Accelerando' is online accelerando notes online library » http://www.baen.com/library/ ====serious speculation==== http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/groups/relativity/papers/abstracts/miguel94a.html ====online==== collaborative world building (aka Orion's Arm) http://www.orionsarm.com/ etc+