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- From: steve@fulcrum.oz.au (Steve Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Isn't anyone READING anymore?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.234013.16957@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <1992Dec21.215858.5329@freenet.carleton.ca> <1hil0dINN42c@werple.apana.org.au>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:40:13 GMT
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- kat@werple.apana.org.au (Kathryn Andersen) writes:
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- >_A Fire Upon The Deep_ by Vernor Vinge
- ...
- >He proposes an idea about the
- >galaxy which is central to the plot, but it is one of those neither
- >plausible nor implausible ideas, impossible to prove or disprove (unless
- >someone actually went Out There 8-)) and it wasn't the kind of idea that
- >left me jumping up and down saying "What a neat idea!".
-
- In my case it did. I thought the central idea was incredibly stupid, but
- found it so nifty that I fell in love with it. It also had the advantage
- that it made it possible for all the different technology levels to exist
- for more than a month without the strong conquering the weak. (That's one
- of my problems with Iain Banks excellent "Culture" novels - it really shouldn't
- take more than a couple of centuries for the entire galaxy to become
- members of the culture, and for life to become pleasant but boring for
- everyone.
-
- >Kathryn Andersen
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- Steve Taylor
-