Posthuman Blues

Before going to see the movie, I stopped by the library to pick up an inter-library loan copy of Cliff Pickover's "Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves." (When I ordered it, the librarian -- a large woman with what looked like open sores stippling her forearms -- thought I had requested "Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elvis" . . .) The bad news is that due to evident demand for the book in the inter-library system, I only get to keep it a few days and have virtually no chance to finish it.





Fortunately I also picked up "Schild's Ladder" by Greg Egan, which I'll begin as soon as I finish Elizabeth Bear's "Hammered."