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- From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: THE GRIPPING HAND by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 09:37:06 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- In article <WEX.93Jan6123412@media-lab.media.mit.edu> ecl@mtgzy.att.com (Evelyn C Leeper +1 908 957 2070) writes:
- [about THE GRIPPING HAND by Niven & Pournelle]
-
- >Niven and Pournelle seem to think it [the future] would be like the
- >1950s with spaceships. Except for the politics, which are from the
- >1980s--the Arab Liberation Organization (ALO) and bomb- throwings on New
- >Ireland.
-
- Except, I assume, for feudalism, which is a pet idea of Pournelle's
- which I find rather nonsensical.
-
- Oh well... guess I'll read it anyway, and try to tune out that stuff...
- --
- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
- The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
- diagram.
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