The Small Demons Blog: "I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel": Fraser Nixon writes a finer-grained pulp
The Man Who Killed is set in Montreal during the 20s, the era of Prohibition and the crime pulps. The novel’s two main characters, Mick and Jack, are products of the age, veterans of the Great War, Empire men nearing Empire’s end. They’ve grown up reading stories with Bulldog Drummond,…
The Small Demons Blog: "An Unknown Background"
I’ve been thinking a lot about space and stories, lately. About fictional worlds and lived worlds, and whether the distance between the two is all that great. And how that all ties back to the idea of the Storyverse, something we talk about a lot here at Small Demons.
To us, the Storyverse is…
The Small Demons Blog: Who Wore that (Single) Velvet Slipper?
Since we launched Small Demons in October, we’ve had a lot of requests to add the books comprising William Gibson’s Blue Ant Trilogy—Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and Zero History. They’re up, now, and with them comes an opportunity to talk a bit about the threads that…
A game like this might take most engineers a few months,” Wozniak recalled. “I thought that there was no way I could do it, but Steve made me sure that I could.” So he stayed up four nights in a row and did it.
Acme Thoughts Incorporated: My Future of the Book Conversation
At GigaOM’s Roadmap event this past week, I had the pleasure of talking to both Richard Nash of Small Demons and Matt MacInnis, CEO of Inkling, about the where the book will go in the future. It may have only been half an hour, but we covered a lot of ground.
We talked about the future of the…
Small Demons is now in private beta. Welcome to the Storyverse™
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Labeling the Back button
Most “deep” apps require some amount of navigation, moving the user deeper into child views and then back out to the parent view. That navigational backtracking is typically done with a “Back” button, positioned in the top-left corner, and denoted by a pointed left side. You’ve all seen it:
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