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04 January 2007

NERDYWARNING: For a science fiction that properly tells the story of seven people in a chat room that brought down the..→[More:]

..That shows people learning, with fuck-ups, habits and basic confusions, whether the skill is mundane or otherworldly..

..That shows people reacting as they ordinarily do today with their computers, which are a cluttered, deaf and mute room of the minds of their users and not something that talks back..

..That shows emergent or transformative technology at its true first appearances, at the board meeting or the focus group or the beta test, written up in an unread report, uneven and disproven and mocked.

post by: By the Grace of God at: 12:41 | 10 comments

I'm confused.

posted by seanyboy 04 January | 12:45

How about True Names?

I'm confused too, but it looks like a request for science fiction recommendations.

posted by agropyron 04 January | 13:02

I'll have what she's having.

posted by iconomy 04 January | 13:03

hmm.

posted by taz 04 January | 13:10

Wrrr...

posted by Specklet 04 January | 13:25

I see the docs gave you a jump start on the anesthesia. [this is good]

posted by danostuporstar 04 January | 13:28

*gurgle*

posted by Doohickie 04 January | 13:41

Oh, poo. My rhetorical thingamadoodle didn't work. Sorry!

I am complaining about these things NOT happening in the CURRENT science fiction that I am reading!

hope this helps ;)

posted by By the Grace of God 04 January | 15:13

and science fiction recommendations are good, too!

posted by By the Grace of God 04 January | 15:23

Have you read William Gibson's first three novels - Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive? They are so great.

From Mona Lisa Overdrive:

There's no there, there. They taught that to children, explaining cyberspace. She remembered a smiling tutor's lecture in the arcology's executive creche, images shifting on a screen: pilots in enormous helmets and clumsy-looking gloves, the neuroelectronically primitive "virtual world" technology linking them more effectively with their planes, pairs of miniature video terminals pumping them a computer-generated flood of combat data, the vibrotactile feedback gloves providing a touch-world of studs and triggers. . . .

As the technology evolved, the helmets shrank, the video terminals atrophied. . . .

And from "Hinterlands," which is in Burning Chrome:

Olga came home, but she never came back to life behind those blue eyes. They tried, of course, but the more they tried, the more tenuous she became, and, in their hunger to know, they spread her thinner and thinner until she came, in her martyrdom, to fill whole libraries with frozen aisles of precious relics.

I also remember that I liked Robert Silverberg's Vox. That's not one of his well-known books but I liked it when I read it. It has to do with new technology. But I read it in high school so I hope that it's not actually really bad, or something. :)

I hope that's helpful!

posted by halonine 04 January | 17:24

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