From: Robert Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 16:40:51 MDT
What about Snowcrash?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Burch" <gregburch@gregburch.net>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: Recommendations for Juvenile SF
> A family of relatively recent Indian immigrants who are merchants in our
> neighbrohood have a 10-year-old son who seems to be shaping up to be a
math
> and science prodigy. He came in 5th place last year in the state math
> competition and his development in these areas appears to be accelerating
> under the enthusiastic support of his proud parents and teachers. His
> father confided in me this afternoon, though, that the boy is lagging in
his
> reading skills: He's bored with what he's given to read at school and,
while
> his parents are very fine people, they have only a modest education and
are
> at a loss for what to suggest he read. When I proposed that we might try
to
> interest him in some science fiction, his father's eyes lit up and he
> responded that it was a "splendid" idea.
>
> Here's the only problem: I don't know what to suggest for a super-bright
> 10-year-old in 2001. I was cutting my teeth on RAH's and Bradbury's (the
> other one)juveniles at that time and fairly quickly graduated to His Most
> Blessed Insightfulness, the Serene Maestro of Serendip. What's good these
> days?
>
> Greg Burch
> Vice-Presdient, Extropy Institute
> http://www.gregburch.net
>
>
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