Re: BOOKS: Recommendations

Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Fri, 02 May 1997 21:40:11 -0700


I loved Diamond Age. It has quite a few fairytale references subtly strewn about, but it's still pretty close to hard SF.

I wish I'd written it.

MMB

At 11:21 PM 5/2/97 -0400, you wrote:

>Thanks to all of you for your SF suggestions.

>

>I've read "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

>It's really wild and funny; I didn't think to mention it, cuz, as you said,

>it's not totally sci-fi. I've also read "Prometheus Rising" by R.A.W., which

>is sorta nonfiction and might be of interest to extropians, being

>futuristic, forward-thinking, and optimistic.

>

>I had heard that "The Diamond Age" wasn't all that good, even tho' the topic

>sounds interesting: nanotech, right?

>

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