From: Crosby_M (CrosbyM@po1.cpi.bls.gov)
Date: Mon Feb 24 1997 - 09:32:40 MST
Linda Nagata fans might like to check out her Web page at
http://www.maui.net/~nagata/index.html
Her novels explore the potential limits of cryonics and, especially,
nanotechnology. Her latest is called _Deception Well_, just
published this month, and deals with the far future for a change.
Here is a snip of what she says about it:
<Complexity theory distinguishes between order and disorder (chaos)
and places vital life precisely on the boundary. We thrive on the edge
of chaos. That's a remarkable philosophy. It's a dynamic tension that
serves as the core of my upcoming novel DECEPTION WELL, a "far-future
cult thriller" ;-) set in a story world in which Earth has been left
behind, three thousand years in the past, and war has become as subtle
as ecological succession.>
I find her themes and thoughts to be fairly Extropian and certainly
Transhumanist. She also has some nice reviews of other recent scifi
novels.
Mark
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