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    Re: SEV2 —Larry Pieniazek
    (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: SEV2 —Steven Vore
     (...) 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)
   
        Re: SEV2 —Jeremy H. Sproat
   (...) 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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