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Djibril

¡La única iglesia que ilumina es la que arde!

About Me

The Future Fire will publish new writing in Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, Eco-SF, Dark Fantasy, and other genres. But only if it's great. See http://futurefire.net/fiction/ to see what we mean by great.

My Interests

AI, anthropology, art, creative commons, cyberpunk, dark futures, darwinism, environment, feminism, fenugreek, garlic infused honey, humanism, literature, magical realism, nietzsche, open source, rationalism, reading, slipstream, speculative fiction, surrealism, sweet chilli, technology, transhumanism, writing

I'd like to meet:

Unexpected words from the future...

Movies:

Alien(s), Cité des Enfants Perdus, Contact, Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei, Espinazo del Diablo, Fight Club, Ghost in the Shell, I (heart) Huckabees, Laberinto del Fauno, Memento, Pitch Black, Resident Evil, Serenity, Solyaris, Underground

Television:

Dark Angel, Firefly, Heroes, Riget (Lars von Trier's Kingdom)

Books:

Douglas Adams, Isabel Allende, Isaac Asimov, Iain M. Banks, Clive Barker, Greg Bear, Jorge Luís Borges, Ray Bradbury, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Orson Scott Card, Ted Chiang, Bruce Chatwin, Roald Dahl, Richard Dawkins, Cory Doctorow, Philip K Dick, Umberto Eco, Neil Gaiman, Gabriel García Márquez, Alan Garner, William Gibson, Douglas Hofstadter, Franz Kafka, Nancy Kress, Ursula LeGuin, Jonathan Lethem, Sven Lindqvist, HP Lovecraft, Richard Morgan, Ben Okri, Philip Pullman, James Randi, Justina Robson, Salman Rushdie, Carl Sagan, Koji Suzuki, Elizabeth Vonarburg, Gene Wolfe, Roger Zelazny, David Zindell

My Blog

TFF/Black Swan winner

The winner of the TFF/Black Swan writing contest has been selected. Congratulations to Steven Pirie whose entry 'Night Dreaming' can be found in The Future Fire 2007.10. (The story will soon also appe...
Posted by Djibril on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:51:00 PST

Preditors readers’ poll

The Preditors and Editors readers' poll is open for nominations and votes yet again. Go to http://www.critters.org/predpoll/ and read the rules, vote for your favourite stories, magazines, novels, art...
Posted by Djibril on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:39:00 PST

Black Swan photos

For those of you who were interested in the Black Swan competition (and for $500 for a 2000 word story, why wouldn't you be?) but for one reason or another haven't been able to get Second Life install...
Posted by Djibril on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:58:00 PST

Black Swan Competition: $500 prize

In association with Black Swan we are offering an exciting creative writing competition. Write a short story based on the evocative and bizarre surroundings of the Black Swan land in Second Life, and ...
Posted by Djibril on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:56:00 PST

TFF 9 published

The Future Fire issue 2007.09 has just appeared: full table of contents below. Featured artists this month include Carmen, Cécile Matthey, and Arianna Ciula. Don't miss the Black Swan/Second Life writ...
Posted by Djibril on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:30:00 PST

Read something new and think critically about it

The following titles are available for review from The Future Fire this month. If you are interested in one of these items, please drop me a note here or contact the nonfiction editor via the TFF cont...
Posted by Djibril on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:34:00 PST

Ju... kyu... hachi... shichi...

A nicely observed post from the Mundane SF Blog last night ("Can you count to ten backwards in Japanese?"). The author, goatchurch, points out the following exerpts from the Google Lunar X Prize websi...
Posted by Djibril on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:05:00 PST

New Scientist on MK Ultra (and others)

Fascinating discussion in the New Scientist Blog last week about the newly released CIA documents. An extract:Like many other reporters, I spent much of yesterday scrolling through the 702 pages of CI...
Posted by Djibril on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:09:00 PST

Review of TFF #8

The Future Fire issue 2007.08 has been reviewed in Whispers of Wickedness this week. It's a mixed review, mostly positive, but critical enough to have confidence in, I'd say. (Disclaimer, we have work...
Posted by Djibril on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:16:00 PST

Whisper-and-FireCon

Dear friends, please be invited to the first Whisper-and-FireCon, a joint event of Whispers of Wickedness and The Future Fire. The social gathering will be held on the on the afternoon of Saturday, Ju...
Posted by Djibril on Fri, 25 May 2007 06:39:00 PST