Re: examples of optimistic and extropic fiction.....

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 14:05:44 MST


>From: "Bryan Moss" <bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com>
>
>KPJ wrote:
>
> > The ``The First Immortal'' reminded me somewhat of various
> > Heinlein books due to the preacherous approach, which I
> > have an allergic reaction to. It set off my big, red
> > ``CONDITION RED:MEME INFECTION ATTEMPT'' warning signal so
> > it hardly made any impact in my meme pool.
>
>I just rely on my, "if he knew what he was talking about he
>wouldn't be writing fiction" meme. It seems to work.

I'd be kind of wary of that meme in light of such fiction novelists as Carl
Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke. You might want to substitute for the "if I was
looking for science fact I wouldn't be reading science fiction" meme?

-Zero

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