# Tim Maughan

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Listen to a Story from Motherboard’s First Ever Short Story Collection

Some days, it feels like all you can do is watch worlds burn. This is especially true in the desperate small towns that pocket the parts of America some derisively call ‘Flyover Country.’ Today on Cyber, we’ve got something special. Motherboard is publishing a book! It’s called Terraform and it dro…

Revolutionary Round-Up

This week on Better Strangers: * For Halloween, we talked about John Carpenter’s 1988 movie They Live! and how it neatly explains some leftist media theory. * For the Wednesday column, we talked about Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline and the strategic and moral arguments behind nonviolence …

What would an anarchist revolution look like?

Yesterday, across England, Guy Fawkes was burned in effigy, 418 years after he tried to blow up parliament as part of the pro-Catholic Gunpowder Treason. In the 21st century, Fawkes has come to represent something very different from what he did in his life: in his time, Fawkes wanted to restore a…

Episode 23: Stocking up for the Apocalypse

David and Perry discuss: The Coronavirus Epidemic How we rate books Touch~Claire North Hugo Awards for 2020 A Memory Called Empire~Arkady Martine Infinite Detail~Tim Maughan The Wicked Girls~Alex Marwood The Mermaids Singing~Val McDermid The Ten Thousand Doors of January~Alix E. Harrow Daemon Voice…

Episode 20: Don’t need no Saturn V rockets

Perry and David discuss: Follow-ups What we've been reading Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe The Lost City of Z by David Grand Nova Mob - Ian Mond's recommendations Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan Ordinary People by Sally Rooney Voices by Ursula Le Guin The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace Amst…

REDLINE

It's the 100th episode of the podcast! As I say on the recording itself, this isn't the actual 100th episode; we've had a few above 100 since I've done quite a few 0.5 episodes (like the top movies podcasts) that aren't in the mainline of episodes. But at least the episodes where we talk about a sp…

44: Tim Maughan – Culture, Technology and the Future

Tim Maughan is a British science fiction writer whose work critically explores the intersections of technology and society. He is perhaps best known for his debut novel, “Infinite Detail,” which was a 2020 Locus Award finalist for best first novel and shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Ass…

Txt

In this episode of High Theory, Matthew Kirschenbaum talks about txt, or text. Not texting, or textbooks, but text as a form of data that is feeding large language models. Will the world end in fire, flood, or text? In the full interview, Matthew recommended Tim Maughan’s novel Infinite Detail (Mac…

Israel’s most lethal operation in Gaza is under way

Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza City - the largest Palestinian population centre - is being framed as an assault on Hamas’s “final stronghold”. But behind that narrative lies a campaign of expulsion and erasure that bears all the hallmarks of an endgame. Contributors:  Dana Mills - Writer, Local…