May 2013

Psychoshop by Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny

The novel “Psychoshop” by Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny was published for the first time in 1998.

Alf is a journalist tasked with investigating a strange shop in Rome where apparently you can make out of the ordinary transactions such as exchange parts of your personality with other ones. As if that activity didn’t appear strange enough already, it’s rumored to have been going on for twenty-five centuries.

A picture from the movie "A Boy And His Atom" (Image courtesy IBM. All rights reserved)

On our screens we see images at higher and higher definition, instead IBM created a little movie titled “A Boy and His Atom” using a sort of stop motion animation to create nearly 250 images by placing thousands of individual atoms.