The Geecologist

The Machine Stops

The Machine Stops

Jun 22, 2024 | Fiction, Geekery, Short Stories | 0 comments

For a moment Vashti felt lonely. Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere—buttons to call for food, for music, for clothing. There was the...
Sci Fi Hip Hop

Sci Fi Hip Hop

Jul 13, 2023 | 2023, Featured, Mixes, Toons | 0 comments

What is sci fi hip hop? Sci Fi Hip Hop is a niche but popular genre. There are legends like Kool Keith, aka Dr Octagon, Ultramagnetic MC, Dr Dooom, Black Elvis, etc. But many other artists have put out albums like Beastie Boys, Deltron 3030, Outkast, UNKLE, Bobby...
Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions

Mar 27, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

The words in the book, incidentally, were about life on a dying planet named Lingo-Three, whose inhabitants resembled American automobiles. They had wheels. They were powered by internal combustion engines. They ate fossil fuels. They weren’t manufactured,...
Pathetic Earthlings

Pathetic Earthlings

Apr 15, 2019 | 2019, Featured, Mixes, Toons | 0 comments

Ming the Merciless’ desert island discs includes Tortoise, Coldcut, Jacques Brel, Prefuse 73, Keith Jarrett, Aphex Twin, Nobukazu Takemura and Julianna Barwick. Intergalactic indeed!

The One Who Waits

The One Who Waits

Oct 6, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

I live in a well. I live like smoke in the well. Like vapor in a stone throat. I don’t move. I don’t do anything but wait. Overhead I see the cold stars of night and morning, and I see the sun. And sometimes I sing old songs of this world when it was young. How can I...