Megan's Lit of Horror, Fantasy, & Sci Fi

I’ve read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Restaurant at the End of the Universe a few times before, but it was interesting to hear the audio drama version of it. Arthur Dent seems like a much more heroic character in the radio version, while I remember him in the books being very unassuming, almost meek as he gets thrown around the universe with various other people at the helm. Even his voice in the radio version is much more confident and bold than I would’ve imagined Arthur Dent to be. There’s also several events in the radio version that I have no recollection of, so I’m assuming at least some of them aren’t in the books. Still, in terms of tone and theme, the radio version is very much the same Douglas Adams style humor, and I don’t feel as if he changed any of the core elements of his story radically when he went on to write the books. He has a very particular blend of witty one-liners and somewhat depressing views of the nonsensical chaos of the univers

Blog Post 13: Oryx and Crake I’ve gotten halfway through Oryx and Crake, and I’m planning on finishing it over winter break. Margaret Atwood is of course an author I’ve heard of before, but strangely I’d never gotten around to reading any of her work until now. She has a really interesting approach to novels, a tonal blend of serious literature and science fiction that I can really get behind. Her writing is very internal, very introspective, which is the way I like my books. I’m the kind of person who’s always living somewhat in their own head, and Atwood’s writing seems to feel very comfortable and natural for me. Even though her character doesn’t share many attributes with me – I’m not a mentally disturbed man wandering around in a post-apocalyptic world where everything is hybridized from a variety of different genes – it feels like I can really understand the character’s mind. Atwood manages to talk about the most horrifying topics with a careful balance between

50 years of technology 10 years down the road: Right now, there's some semi-cutting edge technology coming out allowing us to create an edited video to make it look like somebody is saying something they're not really saying. It's a lipsync technology that will likely be touted as perfect for dubbing movies in other languages. There's also a technology coming out which allows you to sample a person's voice and create totally new dialogue that mimics that voice. Combined, these two technologies will be able to effectively create a video clip of somebody saying something that they never said. I think it's very important that we don't advance on this combination of technology, but I know if we try to suppress it, it's only going to start coming out in the worst sorts of ways. It has the potential to be used to create fake videos of politicians making statements they never actually made. It can be used to blackmail just about anybody, in fact. I'd sa