From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 23:19:09 MDT
At 05:46 PM 4/7/02 -0700, Hal wrote:
>This scenario is a bit reminiscent of the Ken MacLeod books where SIs
>on Jupiter were beaming toxic viral memes towards the earth. Only here
>they are less obviously malicious, perhaps meant to goose the Luddites
>on Earth into taking the Big Leap.
More like the nano critters in Wil McCarthy's BLOOM, which ditto (I suppose
that was a spoiler of sorts, sorry; but read the book, it's excellent;
Charlie's sounds pretty damned fine too).
Damien Broderick
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