The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Shame on us/ for all we have done/ and all we ever were/ just zeros and ones.
Technology, Software, Music, Guitar, Video Games, Artificial Intelligence, Automata, Emergent Intelligence, Hive Mind, Biology, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Quantum Physics, Nanotechnology, Virtual Reality, Wetware, Swarm Intelligence, Simulations, Neural Networks, Emergent Design, Systems, Computer Science, Computer Languages, Data Structures, Algorithms, Databases, Nanotech-augmented Super Soldiers, Singularitarianism, The Singularity, Transhumanism, Posthumans, Strong A.I., Radical Life Extension, Participant Evolution
Wintermute/Neuromancer, Helios
Dark. A couple favorites, in no particular order: Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Katatonia, Jerry Cantrell, Nine Inch Nails, Assemblage 23, And One, Covenant, VNV Nation, De / Vision, Diary of Dreams.
Battle Star Galactica, Heroes, Jericho, Arrested Development, Rome, The Tudors, The Office, Nip/Tuck, Mr. Show, League of Gentlemen, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad, Oz, Sealab 2021, CSI: Las Vegas, House, Lost, Survivorman, Metalocalypse, Weeds, interesting documentaries.
Stranger in a Strange Land, Job, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Time Enough for Love, Starship Troopers, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Ender's Game, Dragonlance, American Gods, The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Discworld Series, I am Legend, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Malazan Book of the Fallen
Mostly: Robert A. Heinlein, William Gibson, Neil Stephenson, Orson Scott Card, Michael Crichton, Eric Drexler, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, George R. R. Martin
I will use this section for games I enjoy[ed]. Halo, Quake, Half-Life, System Shock, Bioshock, Deus Ex, The Elder Scrolls, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Fallout, Worms, Chu-Chu Rocket, Tetris, Zuma, Carcassonne, Settlers of Catan, Chess, Castle Simulations, Dwarf Fortress, Viva Pinata, Birthright (though I have _no_time_), Quest for Glory, Kings quest, Space Quest, Thief, Mass Effect, Guitar Hero, Rock Band.