Warren Ellis to write weekly SL column for Reuters
By Adam Reuters
SECOND LIFE, Dec 22 (Reuters) — Writer Warren Ellis, author of comic books, graphic novels, and two forthcoming novels, is bringing his “Second Life Sketches” to the Reuters Second Life News Center as a weekly column beginning next month.
Ellis, whose work includes “Transmetropolitan,” the futuristic story of gonzo journalist Spider Jerusalem, has been in Second Life since January and publishing “Second Life Sketches” on his Web site since August. His home in Second Life can be found at Integral Bay.
“Second Life is not only the biggest digital art installation in the world, but potentially the most radical shift yet in the way communities are formed online, and possibly also the germ of the next great operating system,” Ellis said. “It’s not only a place where people get as strange as they can, but an incubator for the future.”
“As a writer who deals with both the strangeness of people and the state of the future, Second Life is like a lab for me,” he added.
The first column by Ellis, who is based in south-east England, will appear on Friday, Jan. 9.
