Re: Prey (was RE: Fiction Books)

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 23:33:51 MDT

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    >Seems like such a formula would be easy to spin in the other direction.
    >Luddites warning of technological risks but secretly involved in nasty plots
    >for their own greedy purposes. Technologies hero obviously smart but
    >not listened to. Just in time some disaster is averted by the technology
    >heroes using the feared technology.

    By a stroke of luck, Barbara Lamar and I have just mailed off to the
    publisher our novel POST MORTAL which attempts just this. (I say `our
    novel', but really it is almost entirely Barbara's.)

    The disasters in question are stupidity and universal inevitable death, the
    sort that gets us all these days.

    >Chrichton's style.

    FWIW, his name's Crichton. I agreed pretty much entirely with Emlyn's
    earlier post abusing this awful novel.

    Damien Broderick



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