July 29th, 2010
From July 30th thru August 1st, 2010 – FREE standard shipping (Canadian orders will receive a shipping discount up to $9.50) Simply enter the coupon code FREEWEEKEND (for the U.S.) or CADFREEWEEKEND (for Canada) in the check-out area of your basket and save!
July 22nd, 2010
When I created the Neuromancer T-Shirt (very simple but elegant) I was thinking of something to wear at night even when going to a club. I could see the shirt glowing around.
A wintermute design had been for a long time on my mind. I was playing with typography and trying to create some kind of logo based on a snow flake…well, many different things.
The other day I was thinking about it while walking and I had a spark of inspiration: Wintermute was programmed by the Tessier-Ashpool dynasty with a need to merge with its other half: Neuromancer. Finally, Wintermute unites with Neuromancer, fusing into a greater entity.
Suddenly I realized that they didn’t need to have different designs. Now I can picture myself with a partner hanging around with both t-shirts.
Neuromancer and Wintermute have the same essence, they are two complementary AIs destinated to be a goodlike AI when they merge.
The shirt is already in the shop.
This is a video of neuromancer T-shirt whith the lights off. I’ll try to make another as in this one it doesn’t look as bright as it is.
July 17th, 2010
Frank has reported a problem with the coupon: From July 12th to July 30th, you get a FREE Messenger bag with a purchase of $40 or more. He’s receiving: “Sorry, this coupon is not valid for the chosen product(s).”
I’m trying to discover what happened. Meanwhile, here’s how it works:
The coupon is valid for US and Canada.
Simply pick a number of tees or other product to reach $40, that can be just 2 t-shirts, at least one regular fit ($18) and one AA ($22.95) , then add the Messenger bag to the basket and enter the coupon code when going through checkout.
I’m very sorry, maybe it wasn’t clear enough. By now I have put the explanation in the banner. If anybody did a $40 order but didn’t add the bag, just cancel the order.
Do not hesitate to contact me for whatever.
UPDATE: The problem was with trying to apply the coupon without adding the bag first.
July 12th, 2010
This is the book I’m going to read this summer. Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Windup Girl” was announced winner of the Nebula Award on May 15. The book is a biopunk science fiction novel about Biotechbology, Bioterrorism, Global warming, Seedbanks and Megacorporations.
It was named by Time Magazine as one of the ten best novels of 2009.
“Bacigalupi is a worthy successor to William Gibson: This is cyberpunk without computers.”
–Time Magazine, Best Books of 2009
“It’s ridiculous how good this book is… Bacigalupi’s vision is almost as rich and shocking as William Gibson’s vision was in 1984… I hope he writes 10 sequels.”
–Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians
An excerpt from Night Shade Books:
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen’s Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko…
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.
What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism’s genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.
I’m already waiting for it to arrive!
July 11th, 2010
With the coupon codes ADDONFREE(US) and CADADDONFREE(CAD) you can add a Messenger bag for FREE with a minimum basket size of $40. This promotion starts on Monday, July 12th and runs through Friday, July 30th, 2010.
During this time the regular price of $24 for the messenger bag alone will drop to $19.99 ($4 off).