From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 08:56:18 MST
It appears as if <QueeneMUSE@aol.com> wrote:
|
|In a message dated 2/23/2000 12:00:07 AM Pacific Standard Time,
|starman125@hotmail.com writes:
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|<<
| I think of Jim Halperin's novel, "The First Immortal" when I think of a very
| optimistic and extropic future. >>
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|really??? I thought it was prickly and kind of preachy
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|Will check out Aristoi though
The ``The First Immortal'' reminded me somewhat of various Heinlein books
due to the preacherous approach, which I have an allergic reaction to.
It set off my big, red ``CONDITION RED:MEME INFECTION ATTEMPT'' warning signal
so it hardly made any impact in my meme pool.
The ``Aristoi'', OTOH, felt much more interesting, a traditional action story
with lots of interesting memes thrown in, but under the meme radar, as it were.
Almost all of the story people fall into the Übermensch cathegory, however, so
one can hardly call the social system of the story democratic. !-/ Be warned.
BTW, I have upgraded my meme infection defense system. !-)
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