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Re: suggestions, please...
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Don Smith wrote:
> Rhys wrote:
>
> > Cryptonomicon - William Gibson
>
> Neil Stephenson wrote this book. Gibson, along with Sterling, founded
> the Cyberpunk movement; _Neuromancer_ is the definitive text. He also
> wrote a
oops., yea - i meant Neuromancer and by william gibson and just that
cryptonomicon reminds me a lot of him (gibson)
> despairing man who calucaltes how to sink all the pool balls on the
> break, using the people in the hall as an abacus to figure out all the
> gravitational and quantum effects. Wild stuff.
(: sounds cool
> Have you read _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_ by Annie Dillard? Linford
> tipped me off to that book, and it's a real eye-opener. If you've
> ever stared in wonder at the teeming life in a tidal pool, you'll love
> this book. If you haven't, this book will show you why you should.
> Full of spiritual wonder at the natural world.
yea, i love it - i liked the wild thought-streams about quantum physics
and moonlight and ripples in the water... i just like her writings.
> Williams (anything by Williams, really), _Foucault's Pendulum_ by Eco,
> the
i absolutely loved Foucalt's penduluum... (: Ender's series - yea.
> _Otherland_ series, although I'm not sure it's as good as Stephenson.
> Certainly Stephenson packs his ideas in more densely. :-)
as in the Illearth series?
rhys
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