New store location open now - GNAWLINZ 41,203,28

Monday, July 27, 2009

Reactor primed and active, check. Structural integrity field, stable. Orbital laser beacon, focused and steady. Product vending systems, online. Localized monitors, online. Prison complex fitted out and ready for use. Test subjects... on order.

The new MadScience store location is now open in the swampy end of the GNAWLINZ region. The Mikianna location has been decommissioned and demolished. The new Durance Facility is also open and available for all.

New product announcements are on the way.

J.G. Ballard, 15.11.1930 - 19.04.2009

Sunday, April 19, 2009

"...I feel that the balance between fiction and reality has changed significantly in the past decades. Increasingly their roles are reversed. We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass-merchandizing, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the pre-empting of any original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer’s task is to invent the reality."

– from an introduction to the French edition of Crash, 1974