From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 12:57:22 MST
Prompted by Greg Burch's post a few weeks ago I bought and read John
C.Wright's "The Golden Age". As Greg said, this is a great book. A very
intricate look at the possible social and legal structures that could come
existence after advanced identity manipulation and SAI becomes possible, as
imagined from a very strongly libertarian perspective, although with an
unusual view of intellectual property. The book suffers to some extent from
a rather stuffy style, at times resembling the sci-fi from the early
sixties, but even so, it rates an 8 out of 10 on my scale (for illustration,
The Bible is 2, The Lord of the Rings is 6, Marooned in Realtime and John
Varley's Titan trilogy are 10). The delivery is a little rough at times but
the intellectual goods are absolutely first-class.
Rafal
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