RE: Take your Whuffie and shove it, WAS: So who's counting?

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 21:33:38 MST

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    --- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
    > Mike Lorrey wrote,
    > > As Meredith McMaster Bujold's character Aral Vorkosigan said,
    > "Guard
    > > your honor closely, and let your reputation fall where it may."
    >
    > For some reason, I found these books hard to get through from a
    > readability
    > standpoint, but I enjoyed the stories and ideas in them very much.

    I made a mistake. It is Lois McMaster Bujold, not Merideth (don't know
    where that came from).

    Lois seems to write in a way that demands you slow down and pay
    attention. I've read each of her novels several times. She is very
    heavy in characterization, which is unusual in much SF.

    I do find much of her universe completely implausible. For example,
    Jackson's Whole should either have devolved into a lump of grey goo or
    else sublimed, since it is the only place, apparently, where truly
    event horizon technologies are allowed to be developed.

    Secondly, she describes the Cetagandan Empire as the home of the
    posthumanists. An outright autarchy.

    Thirdly, that there would be so many human worlds full of absolutely
    normal human beings, and an absence of individuals at varying levels of
    advancement along a rather steep technological event horizon

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    Mike Lorrey
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