From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 14:00:06 MST
--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
> Charlie Stross wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:57:34PM -0500, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> >>
> >> I finished reading the "Cryptonomicon" today. An excellent book.
> >> Stephenson claims it is not in the least a roman a clef but
> repeated
> >> references to a group called "Eutropians" make me think otherwise.
> >> Are there any prominent Extropians who wear black cowboy hats, and
> >> are deep into crypto?
> >
> > You're new around here, aren't you? ;-)
> >
> > (At least, you don't remember the good old days when Tim May was a
> > regular around here. Back before about 1994, IIRC.)
> >
> ### By these standards I am still a newbie, since my first contact
> with ExI was in 1999.
I was rather tickled at reading the references to Eutropians in his
novel. I am rather surprised, though, that Cryptonomicon is being sold
as a "new release" in the bookstores. I've been reading my copy over
and over again for a long while now.
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