Mac Tonnies

www.mactonnies.com/cydonia.htmlAn independent effort to assess possible extraterrestrial artifacts on Mars by Mac Tonnies   Send email to macbot yahoo dot com. I haven’t updated this site in ...

https://mactonnies.com/2015/05/the-cydonian-imperative/

  Fiction: Note: The stories included here are either original to this website or else “reprints” from online publications. Stories that have been submitted to current fiction markets will n...

https://mactonnies.com/2015/05/dead-letter-office/

Jimmy Descant’s Deluxe Rocketships are ingenious fabrications that use various mechanical clutter to recall the retro-active vehicles of 1950s sci-fi. “2001: A Space Odyssey” Internet Resea...

https://mactonnies.com/2015/05/cultural-phenomena/

Franz Kafka, author of such enduring works as “The Metamorphosis” and “The Castle,” tapped into the 20th century’s psychological mainline perhaps more effectively than any other writer....

https://mactonnies.com/2015/05/literature/

“I demand a better future.” —David Bowie “As the external world becomes more animate, we may find that we — the so-called humans — are becoming, and may to a

https://mactonnies.com/2015/02/transhumanism/

“There is a strange urge in my mind: I would like to stop behaving as a rat pressing levers — even if I have to go hungry for a while.

https://mactonnies.com/2015/01/esoterica/

Mac’s Recommended “Cyberpunk” Fiction The following is a concise list of “cyberpunk” science-fiction, inspired by Bruce Sterling’s online cyberpunk canon (circa 1996). Since I’ve li...

https://mactonnies.com/2015/01/cyberpunk-fiction-list/

Recommended Reading by Mac Tonnies The following are books devoted to unusual/uncommon topics. I offer them as recommendations for anyone curious about extraterrestrial life, space colonization, ...

https://mactonnies.com/2015/01/nonfiction-booklists/

“There’s more to life than books, you know, but not much more.” –The Smiths, “Handsome Devil” “Since so much modern science fiction is complete crap, and since I’ve spent most

https://mactonnies.com/2015/01/confessions-of-an-unredeemed-bibliophile/