Yak Wax <yakwax@yahoo.com> writes:
> The check is in the post. Here's some other sci-fi themes ticking
> over in my mind:
>
> An uploaded universe ruled by a "Reality Council" who decides what's
> real and what's not, young hopefuls struggle to make it up the
> political ladder so that they can reap the benefits of being able to
> pass "Reality Legislation."
:-) Reminds me a bit of the ideological conflicts between the
different poli in Egan's _Diaspora_: one regards physical reality as
boring and trivial, while another thinks it is dangerous to forget it
and our ties to it. In a third objects in the virtual reality can all
interpenetrate, since it would be coersion to block passage.
> Androids that don't want to be human.
>
> An upload who downloads into a human body and is overwhelmed by the
> shear lack of substance in the real world.
Yay!
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