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Re: SEV2
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Sun, 31 Jan 1999 02:45:46 GMT
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> . _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.
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 plausible-sounding in the fairly near future it a lot
tougher. I think Brin's done an excellent job.
--
Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | TC++MS++#15LS+M+HalYB64m
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| (...) 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)
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