July, 2000
“A Passion for Hacking and Living on the Edge”
A Complete Speech for DefCon 8
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Mind Games - By Richard ThiemeMind Games is a unique collection of 19 stories of brave new worlds and alternate realities - stories of computer hackers, deception and intelligence, puzzling anomalies, spirituality and mysteries of consciousness, the paranormal, UFOs, alien life forms - in short, everyday life in the 21st century. All have been previously published in literary, slipstream, and science fiction magazines and anthologies but have not been available in a single collection - until now.
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Islands in the Clickstream - By Richard ThiemeFind out how to get a signed copy sent anywhere in the US to your recipient for $20. Makes a great “appreciation gift.”
Foreword by Andrew Briney, Editor-in-Chief of Information Security Magazine
“Silent Emergent, Doubly Dark” in the anthology: Subtle Edens
A splendid slipstream anthology (Elastic Press: London, 2008) includes Thieme’s breakthrough story, which received this review:
“Silent Emergent, Doubly Dark” by Richard Thieme opens with a quote from James Joyce, whom I consider to be a primogenitor of slipstream. Thieme, fortunately, doesn’t try to match Joyce for wordplay and instead gives us a calm, flat look into the psyche of an alien being. Thieme explores various levels of reality through his protagonist, moving farther and farther away from the seen, into unglimpsed realms. The story itself, like Joyce, is a bit difficult, but Thieme’s beautiful descriptions and intriguing concepts keep things interesting. This is a piece that truly deserves the slipstream label.
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Hi Richard,
It seems the link for your Defcon 8 speech audio is broken.
http://www.thiemeworks.com/a-complete-speech-for-defcon-8/
That speech was very inspirational to me, I was there and have referred to it several times.
Can you let me know where I can find it?
Thanks,
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Dan
Hi Daniel,
We’ve tried to recreate your problem with this audio file, but can’t seem to do so. It seems to be working fine for us. Perhaps it was a temporary glitch of some kind. Please try again. Thanks for contacting us.
I’m having the same issue.
Clicking play within the media controller expands to the error “File not found”
Sorry for the problem Ansgar. I discovered that the WordPress plugin we were using on this site is no longer supported. So, I have installed and configured a new plugin that seems to be working now. Thanks for letting us know.