I will second the Jeff Noon. Vurt was amazing, Pollen was better. Haven't read any of his more recent stuff, but I want to!
While we are pimping out our favorite Sci Fi, one guy I saw missing on the lists was Cory Doctorow. He's a new guy on the scene, but definitely really good. He recently published a great novel called "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom". Takes place in Disneyland in trans/posthuman (no death) time. Money doesn't exist and instead the world operates on a sort of fluid system of cultural currency and reputation called "whoofie".
Anyway, one of the coolest things about the book is that not only was it published in hardcover, but its also avaliable for download entirely for free in a plethora of formats. Download it here:
http://www.craphound.com/down/
It operates on this interestiing derivative of copyright that I don't know enough to talk about but you can find more about here:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/
Maybe there is something for music labels to glean from this.
-Aaron
quoted 43 lines Jeff Noon - writes books that take place in an alternate near-
>
> Jeff Noon - writes books that take place in an alternate near-
> future Manchester, where people
> do 'feathers': psychedelics delivered on some sort-of a
> feather-thingy: Noon's stuff is very
> 'magical'. ;) 'Vurt' and 'Pollen' are his first two and
> both get into the feather thing,
> 'Vurt' more-so. 'Pollen' is the Persephone trip, but done
> 21st Century foxy!
> (***!!!IDM content
> alert!!!***) Noon's 'Needle to the Groove' is very cool: some
> kids in a band: dj and musicians:
> the remixes are created by running the sound through a
> liquid, which is enclosed in
> an orb in the mixing board, and remixing is done simply
> by shaking up the liquid
> in the ball: no two remixes are the same! But that
> isn't the ~really~ cool part:
> the liquid can be injected. Into the blood. Of music
> makers. "And we are the dreamers of the dream." ;)
>
> Greg Bear - Speaking of blood and music, 'Blood Music'! Wow!
> Crazy: Bear ends the
> world like no other sf writer has before: turns the end
> inside-out! The noosphere as a
> noose!!!
>
>
> For the Dick-heads on-list:
> here's why PKD looked at the Essene fish and had his 'pink light'
> experience:he was doing this very same thing at the time!:
> http://paulwilliams.com/Pkds.jpg
>
>
> =seek=
>
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