The Cydonian Imperative
www.mactonnies.com/cydonia.htmlAn independent effort to assess possible extraterrestrial artifacts on Mars by Mac Tonnies Send email to macbot [at] yahoo dot com. I haven’t updated this site in some time, […]
Book Review
Mac Tonnies book reviews and reading lists. These reviews cover a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction science fiction literature.
Dead Letter Office
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 not […]
Literature
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. Neal Stephenson, postcyberpunk […]
Transhumanism
“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 […]
Esoterica
“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. […]
Cyberpunk Fiction
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 limited myself to titles that I’ve […]
Nonfiction Booklists
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, quantum theory, life extension, […]
Confessions of an Unredeemed Bibliophile
“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 […]