[Fwd: Most 200{0,1} prescient SciFi author?]

From: Strata Rose Chalup (strata@virtual.net)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 17:35:18 PST


Not sure if fork@xent.com doesn't point to fork@xent.ics.uci.edu
anymore, or if there is just severe lag, so forwarding.

As I forgot to mention in the original posting, the McDonald story not
only relies upon several sorts of "snow crashes" (dubbed "fracters" by
the protagonist and his co-creator), but indicates how they were
created.

It would be fascinating to attempt the process, and I can think of a
number of ways a la SETI@home that it would be do-able.

_SRC

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I was disappointed when I checked the date of "Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone" by Ian McDonald-- 1994, 2 years after "Snow Crash". But I read the latter once or twice, and don't own a copy, whereas SCPWS is one of my "every couple of years" books.

Very short, very sharp, very good.

_SRC

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