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  4. From: doom@elaine6.Stanford.EDU (Joseph Brenner)
  5. Subject: Re: Diamond-hard SF
  6. In-Reply-To: szabo@techbook.com's message of 20 Nov 92 15:01:58 GMT
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  8. Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
  9. Organization: DSG, Stanford University
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  14. Date: 21 Nov 92 19:54:57
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  18. Just wanted to say that _Engines of Creation_ doesn't really
  19. deserve to be called fiction, because if that's what it is,
  20. then it's really a poor job, and actually I think it's a
  21. great piece of speculative non-fiction.  
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  23. On the other hand _Unbounding the Future_ is so littered
  24. with badly written, excessively detailed hypothetical
  25. scenarios that I think you could call it a bad piece of SF.
  26. I only managed to get about halfway through it. 
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