Kicking off into the Galaxy- Virtual Worlds
Posted in Fiction, Reading - Literature, Recreation, Science, Technology by wayne.porter on July 20th, 2007 Fictional world lover? Try http://www.galaxiki.org/.
“Galaxiki is a virtual galaxy with over a million stars and solar systems - each star, each planet and each moon represents one wiki page and site members can name and edit them, creating an entirely fictional world. It’s also possible to “purchase” a star or a solar system, so that only you (and not other community members) can name and edit it.”
Neat. Hat tip on this find to Sam Harrelson. My vacation started today…appropriately with major network problems (I am still working on)…perhaps the universe is trying to tell me something.
My wife picked up a copy of Phillip Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” for my vacation reading…with an introduction by the sorely missed Roger Zelazny, touched upon here, as I covered China Mieville and New Weird.
Interestingly enough the last Harry Potter book hits the shelves tonight at midnight and Mieville’s latest foray entitled- “Un Lun Dun” is certainly targeting that crowd. People can knock Harry Potter all they want- the fact that kids are lining up to buy a book- matters.
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