Warren Ellis
The Inevitable Crapness of 2013
The Internet of Things is something that people will be seriously looking at in 2013. On one hand, it's a wonderful idea but it could also create a class of desperate entrepreneurs born of austerity and sociopolitical upheaval.
The Acceptable Cost of the Right to Bear Arms
The main weapon used at Newtown was an assault rifle preferred by special forces teams. Now, I’m not an expert. I’m British. But I’m thinking that 20 to 30 semi-automatic .233 rounds through a carbine with a built-in flash suppressor is probably...
Warren Ellis Travelled to 2022 and Wrote Us This Report
Warren Ellis files a report from the planet we live on ten years from now: the buzz of drones is constant, China's in space and Boris is PM.
How to Shut Down Internets
After shutting the internet down, most megalomaniac dictators believe they will still be around to turn it back on. They take their future for granted, and believe they only need to hide the corpses it will be built on.
An Idiot's Guide to Time
We live in a world where time only flows downstream and the past is an unscalable glacier wall. We will hit the bottom of the spiral long before we ever solve the problem of rescuing love or speaking unsaid goodbyes.
Delete Everything Now
We give up our privacy, as they say, for candy bars. The problem is that the thing we give our information to today is not necessarily the thing that will have it tomorrow.
Sandy and the Broken Machine
Global warming isn't a joke or a trick, it's the new future, a thousand miles wide and coming for us at a hundred miles an hour.
My Last Column About the Presidential Election (Really)
You may gather that I don't consider the 2012 election itself much of a story, and you'd be right. It'll appear to be tight, but it really won't be. Here's my prediction.
Jimmy Savile and the Price of Silence
Sir Jimmy Savile was a radio DJ, TV personality, and charity worker, raising millions for the children's ward at Stoke Mandeville hospital. He's also a necro-pedo, who did his deeds for years because nobody wanted to pay the price of outing him.
The Valley of Expectations
Human spaceflight may be dead, but the future's still death from above. Ever look up and notice how much the American Space Shuttle resembles some styles of drone? That happened when we weren’t looking.
Good Morning, Sinners... with Warren Ellis - The Trail of Blood on the Floor
During the first presidential debate, Obama looked like a man who was really ready to not be president any more. Maybe the weight of killing for a living is finally getting to him.
Your God Is Not Strong
If there were a god, and it felt mortal pain at the sin of blasphemy, it would be a vain and weak creature, unworthy of sympathy, let alone worship. When I wipe shit on the face of your god, I’m not doing it to your god—I’m doing it to you.