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From:
Eric Sorenson
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seek
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Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:37:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Re: [idm] science fiction reading, weeping [offtopic]
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, seek wrote:
quoted 8 lines From: "Eric Sorenson"> From: "Eric Sorenson" > > seek wrote: > > > Gibson's last thing, 'Pattern Recognition', started out amazing, > > > but wimped out, imo. > > > It was a scene-for-scene retread of 'Neuromancer'! > > How's that?
(this is way, way, way offtopic but what the hell...) It's been several months so I can no longer go point-by-point, but bottom line, consider the 'deus ex machina' revealed at the end of the stories which generates beautiful, mysterious, and ultimately meaningless artifacts .. -- - Eric Sorenson - Explosive Networking - http://eric.explosive.net - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org