The Theory and Practice of Chaos Angel Spanner
I’ve put a lot of thought into Spanner and its prequels, sequels, and side stories since I wrote my first word longhand in pencil on the first page of my first Project Notebook back in 1992. So here’s a comprehensive listing of the essays and entries I’ve posted, here and at my Posterous blog, on topics relevant to Spanner, the “Dictel Saga” prequel novels, and related stories in the Spanner mythos. Since there’s so many posts listed by now, here’s the links to the sections:
- Inside Spanner
- The Science Fiction Essays
- Our Cyberpunk World
- The Political Thriller Essays
- NaNoWriMo Related
Inside Spanner
(The Spanner world notes. Not all entries listed yet.)
- What — and Who — Is Spanner? (March 15, 2008)
- The Identification Crisis (March 24, 2008)
- The United State (March 30, 2008)
- Plotting the Story (April 6, 2008)
- (more entries to be listed here)
- How Spanner Got Her Handle (October 21, 2009)
- What Is This Dictel Corporation, Anyway? (November 20, 2009)
- Dictel Corporation and the Holy Grail (December 11, 2009)
- Control and the City (December 24, 2009)
- Spanner’s Anarchist Theory of Government, Terrorism, and Crime (May 11, 2010)
- Cyberpunk Gothic Part 1: Yuri Manga, “Precious Bodily Fluids,” and Cyberpunk Gothic Gone Berserk (May 29, 2010)
- Cyberpunk Gothic Part 2: Corporations as Gods (May 31, 2010)
- Cyberpunk Gothic Part 3: Corporatism as a Fanatic Cult (June 8, 2010)
- Corporations on Strike! (June 9, 2010)
- Gods of Light vs. Gods of Power (June 10, 2010)
- Scientism and the Mechanists (June 11, 2010)
- What Is Leila Doing? (August 6, 2010)
- Spanner and the Incident at Wold Newton (August 12, 2010)
- Why These Big Family Things? There’s A Theme In It. (August 13, 2010)
- With Great Power... (August 15, 2010)
- When Power Corrupts (August 16, 2010)
- Morality Is Not the Point (August 23, 2010)
- The Sexbots Are Here (November 25, 2010)
- Sexbots 2: The Rapebots Are Coming (November 26, 2010)
- The Anonymous Beauties, Women with No Name (April 6, 2013)
- The Nudefighters, or Fanservice as a Deadly Weapon (April 7, 2013)
- Mad Love: Romantic Love as the Destruction of Society (April 7, 2013)
The Science Fiction Essays
- Black Science: Destroy Science Fiction! (August 12, 2009)
- Spanner: Destroy the Superhero Universe? (August 13, 2009)
- This Is The Cyberpunk Universe — With A Twist (August 18, 2009)
- Science Fiction Is the True Modern Literature (August 27, 2009)
- As Literary Fiction Dies, Science Fiction Must Take Over (September 6, 2009)
- Two Kinds of Science Fiction (September 8, 2009)
- After Litfic Dies: Science Fiction vs. Fantasy (September 23, 2009)
- Philip K. Dick on Blade Runner (October 22, 2009)
- Stephen Hawking, Evil Space Aliens, and Science Fiction (April 25, 2010)
- Stephen Hawking and the Evil Space Aliens, Part 2: The Menace from Earth (April 26, 2010)
- Spanner and the Problem with Superheroes (May 20, 2010)
- Future Shock (August 17, 2010)
- The Dialectical Approach (coming soon)
Our Cyberpunk World
- Real Life Bad Companies: Trafigura and Carter-Ruck (November 13, 2009)
- The Coming of the RoboPolice (April 26, 2010)
- Hoverboards Are Almost Here (May 30, 2010)
- FaceBorg, or All Your Internet Are Belong To Us (April 23, 2010)
- Financial Theocracy and the Coming Fall of the Corporate Empire (June 13, 2010)
- Real Life Bad Companies: The Empire of the Banks (August 4, 2010)
- Real Life Bad Companies: The Mercenary Corporations (August 4, 2010)
- The Sexbots Are Here (November 25, 2010)
- Cloaking: Now You See Me, Now You Don't (December 25, 2010)
- Your New Cyberpunk Mirrorshades (January 7, 2011)
- Your iPad Is Now a Robot's Head! (January 7, 2011)
- LED Eyelashes
- Robot Rock!
- LED Eyelashes
- Your Brain Can Now Be Hacked
The Political Thriller Essays
- Dictel Corporation and Other Collective Vampires (June 5, 2008)
- Political Horror (June 15, 2008)
- The Problem with Political Thrillers (July 14, 2008)
- It Was 11/9 that Changed the World Forever (September 11, 2009)
- The True Spirit of 9/11 Belongs to Ordinary People (September 11, 2009)
- Suspense Clichés to Avoid: The Cellphone Goes Dead... (September 26, 2009)
- Government: The New Breed of God (October 7, 2009)
- Bad Company: The Horror, The Horror; or America Is God and Dictel Is Cthulhu (October 8, 2009)
- Hanlon’s Razor (October 8, 2009)
- How Do You Make the Cellphone Conveniently Go Out? (October 18, 2009)
- The Problem with Thrillers in General (May 12, 2010)
- Ten Ways the iPhone Has Already Killed the Classic Movie (about article; May 27, 2010)
- The Right-Wing Pundit Political Thriller Fad (August 26, 2010)
- More Thoughts on the Political Thriller (January 5, 2013)
NaNoWriMo Related:
- Panic Time! (May 18, 2008)
- Panic Time Explained (October 25, 2009)
- How I Lost NaBloPoMo: or, NaNoWriMo Alternatives (November 16, 2009)
