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Re: SEV2
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Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:23:04 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote:
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> Jasper Janssen writes:
> > My vision of spec-fic doesn't include watching tv to get it - I _read_
> > *books*, curious & quaint as that habit may seem. :)
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> Do you have any recommendations? I just finished _The Snow Queen_ and _The
> Summer Queen_ by Joan D. Vinge, and I need to cool down from a 1000-page,
> 20-year epic. :-,
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> I would highly recommend _Hyperion_ and _Fall of Hyperion_ by Dan Simmons.
Call me quaint, but I like books that don't seem to go on forever
without any sort of satisfactory resolution, answer to the questions
posited, or point. So I didn't care for those much.
Speaking of Vinge I think you might like her ex, Vernor Vinge. _A Fire
Upon The Deep_ is particularly good, dealing as it does with an
intergalactic net, complete with newsgroups and flamers, posers and
misinformation and posturing. And that's just a backdrop for the real
story.
To level set you, I like Card and Brin and Heinlien (except for his last
few ravers...). Niven and Pournelle to me are better together than they
are separately.
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| (...) Try David Brin's "Earth" - Brin's description of the way that [what we call 'the Net'] evolves into over the next 50 years or so is fantastic. It's (relatively) easy to write about SF technology 100 or 1000 years in the future, but getting it (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Hi, Quaint! :-, (...) So you're definitely *not* a Dune fan, eh? (...) The only satisfactory "future internet" book I've ever read was _The Long Run_ by Daniel Keys Moran, but that's really because of the politics involved with the story. (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) My vision of spec-fic doesn't include watching tv to get it - I _read_ *books*, curious & quaint as that habit may seem. :) (...) Not quite - I've prolly seen at least 10 or 20 B5 episodes. [1] J [1] It airs at ungodly times, like 4 pm... (26 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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