From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Wed Jan 21 1998 - 07:01:32 MST
On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 08:12:21AM -0500, Michael Lorrey wrote:
>
> Just read a great SF novel called Kaleidoscope Century, by either John or
> Stephen Barnes. He really went nuts with memetic warfare, even developing an
> era in the next century which he calls the Meme Wars, in which 7 or 8 memes
> are the controlling intelligences of the populace, and are engaged in warfare
> with each other, using people as their proxies.
>
John Barnes. (Very good indeed, IMO.)
BTW, if you can get locate it, read the SF short story BLIT (by Dave
Langford, first published in Interzone a few years ago and reprinted a
couple of times since then). Someone discovers a fractal image that
makes the human brain's wetware crash ...
-- Charlie
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