Strange Horizons Fiction: Prisoners of Uqbaristan: Short story by Chris Nakashima-Brown. Quote: >"I'm an action figure, honey," said the mini-Prez in perfect Midland patois. "Of the Dauphin of the Zeitgeist, for your information. Twelve inches of strategic air power—anatomically correct, to boot. Want to take it out of the box and play with it?"< (via Danstuff) Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]