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- From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
- Subject: Re: Computational Science Fiction (CSF)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.151604.27243@bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
- References: <CMM.0.90.2.713099367.alsberg@delphi.uio.no> <1992Aug07.095342.29133@sco.COM> <bg4m+#r.tmaddox@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:16:04 GMT
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- In article <bg4m+#r.tmaddox@netcom.com> tmaddox@netcom.com (Tom Maddox) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug07.095342.29133@sco.COM> charless@sco.COM (charles stross) writes:
- >>However, to twist this topic around to misc.writing: one of the things
- >>that has been bugging me for a while is the interesting fact that
- >>in the `hard sf' field there have been very few new `hard s''s
- >>in the past few years. Despite a veritable explosion of new
- >>scientific fields -- dissipative systems, algorithmics, quantum
- >>chromodynamics, cellular automata, game theory, queueing theory,
- >>chaos theory, applied genetics, and a whole slew of other developments,
- >>most hard sf is still trawling the same areas in search of
- >>plot McGuffins as in the 1950's. I know Vernor Vinge's been
- >>hinting at algorithmic or information-theoretic stuff in some of
- >>his novels, but this seems very much like a completely `open'
- >>field in sf right now.
- [deleted]
- >
- > _The Difference Engine_ explores a number of these ideas, so does
- >my own _Halo_. And of course there's Rudy Rucker's work, and Pat Cadigan's.
- >
- _David's Sling_ by Mark Stigler (? spelling ?)
- This covers some hypothetical social consequences of information technologies.
- There's even an hypertext version (I'd like to get a copy just to see
- a full example of an hypertext novel).
-
- _In the Country of the Blind_ by Michael F. Flynn
- You could stop reading after 150 pages (the size of the original
- Analog two-part serial) and still have encountered a lot of nifty
- informatics stuff.
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