From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 02:24:43 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0106/stories/asimovs.onbooks.shtml
>
> The Spike, by Damien Broderick; a curious, symptomatic, occasionally
> fascinating, sometimes boring and generally disturbing "non-fiction" book
> of science fictional speculation that seems to ignore or forget that "this
> sort of stuff" is a kind of science fiction.
>
> Broderick is a well-known writer of science fiction, and the central
> McGuffin of The Spike is taken, with generous acknowledgment, from another
> well-known writer of science fiction, Vernor Vinge, who coined the term and
> pioneered the concept of "the Spike," and, on the evidence of this book at
> least, would seem to have become the central prophet of a little cult that
> has formed around it.
Hmm. At one time all the major religions were "little cults".
Perhaps we should play this to the hilt and make it a really bit
"cult" heh?
- samantha
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