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Mon, 1 Feb 1999 03:31:24 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote:
> > 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.
>
> So you're definitely *not* a Dune fan, eh?
Liked the first one, it was one of the best and most detailed ecologies
I had run across till then. Tolerated the second and third, then gave
up. I don't much care for Herbert's other stuff either. He was a one
shot author, perhaps.
> > 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.
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> 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. Everything else in this genre I've read is just hyped-up cheap
> hack fluff. Even the "cyberpuke" segment of _Hyperion_ was slow and
> forgettable. Having said that, I should add that you've sparked my
> curiousity, and I will seek _A Fire Upon The Deep_.
Fire upon the Deep uses the internet to make opening chapter points and
side notes but the main thrust of the book is much deeper. The notion
that physical laws can vary from one place to another in the galaxy,
thus having a profound effect on levels of sentience (and speed of
travel) possible is one that I don't think I'd ever seen anywhere else
before EVER.
> I love Card (1),
Card is great. His latest "memory of earth" series got a bit logorheaic,
though. That story could have been told in about 2-3 books instead of
5-6. Ditto for the last Alvin Maker. A big book about a trial? Please.
Move along, please. Still he's on my buy everything list.
> Larry Niven, *very* early Heinlein.
Niven except for RingWorld, Heinlien up to Stranger with one or two
after that. Liked number of the beast but he was blathering by then. Too
bad, really.
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote ... (...) It seems to me that more & more authors these days are falling into this trap. I wonder how much of this is publisher-induced. "Hey, the first two sold like hotcakes, let's keep this thing going and milk it for all (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-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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