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Article #8686Re: Under-Appreciated Gems of Scientific Epistemology
From: Bruce Sinclair
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:41
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:41
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In article <2mo9l3Fo9to3U2@uni-berlin.de>, Dirk Bruere at Neopax <dirk@neopax.com> was seen to type: >Uncle Al wrote: (snip) >>>>Well, for me Neuromancer came close when it first came out. >>>>In general, SF. >>> >>>Yes ... much SF. It encourages the use of imagination. >>>For me, probably the JG ballard ones and the phillip dick book with >>>"ice 9" in it (been a long time since I read that so this is IIRC :) >>>). Apply the precautionary prionciple ... always :) >> >> "Ice-9" is Vonnegut. Vonnegut writes about wry social >> dysfunction, Dick writes about damning perceptual ambiguity. Ah. Quite right. My thanks. >Dick's more metaphysical stuff wears better over the years than almost all >'hard' SF. Yep. It's still a hard read :) Bruce ================================================ In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds. Lord Vetinari, �The Truth� Terry Pratchet Caution => followups may have been changed to relevant groups (if there were any)
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