hal@rain.org wrote:
> : Customers who bought titles by Vernor Vinge also bought titles by these
> : authors:
> : Lois McMaster Bujold
> : Kim Stanley Robinson
> : Niccolo Machiavelli
> : Sarah Anne Zettel
> : Connie Willis
>
> Four of these authors are, unsurprisingly, science fiction writers.
> What's Machiavelli, the 16th century political philosopher, doing there?
Machiavelli was the Vinge/Greenspan/George Stephanopolous of his time.