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- From: HENRYC93@IRLEARN.UCD.IE (Mark Henry)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: PUBS: Technological Sci-Fi responses
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.205812.342@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 05:02:03 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov22.205812.342
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu
- Originator: hlab@stein.u.washington.edu
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- Thanks to everyone who made suggestions for technological sci-fi
- Christmas presents!
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- Although not all of the suggestions were near-future based, all of
- them are certainly technological and there doesn't sound like a dud
- among them.
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- Here's what was suggested:
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- * Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
- * Some of the books by John Clancy
- * Earth, by David Brin
- * The Third Millenium (Author unknown)
- * The Two Faces of Tomorrow or other books by James P. Hogan
- * Shockwave Rider (Author unknown)
- * True Names and Other Dangers, by Vernor Vinge
- * The Eclipse triology, by John Shirley
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- (Thanks to all the following for suggesting the above: 'rAT',
- Randy Stiles, Brian Gordon French, Steve Hayden, Leslie Rosenblood,
- Russell Schulz, 'Thinman' & La Monte Yarroll.)
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- Jonathan Seah also provided quite a list of cyberpunk titles:
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- *William Gibson -Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning
- Chrome etc. *Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,
- etc, etc. *Michael Moorcock - The Cornelius Chronicles-not really
- 'SF', but close: great anyway *James Tiptree, Jr. - The Girl who was
- Plugged In *Greg Bear - Blood Music *Pat Cadigan - Mindplayers,
- Synners, etc. *Bruce Sterling - Islands in the Net, The Artificial
- Kid, etc - he also edited the definitive 'beginners' anthology' of
- cyberpunk fiction: *"Mirrorshades", which is brilliant fun. *Mark
- Leyner - My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist *Rudy Rucker - Wetware
- *Larry Niven's Known Space series of books - really enjoyable stuff.
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- Thanks for everyone's input,
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- Mark Henry.
- Can't wait for the holiday season...
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