From: Steve Witham (sw@tiac.net)
Date: Wed Jan 29 1997 - 13:44:24 MST
>From: Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
>
>Anthropophagy has a long and honored history in sf: eating Mike in
>Heinlein's STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, the criminal invention of
>`bananameat' in Varley's OPHIUCCHI HOTLINE, the gene-sampling of heroic
>figures for the meat vat in Delany's STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND,
>the ritual cannibalism in THE DREAMING DRAGONS by
>
>Damien Broderick
And making milkshakes of the professor's brain in Neil Stephenson's
_The Big U_.
--Steve
-- sw@tiac.net Steve Witham http://www.tiac.net/users/sw "...the Vild, where the manifold was as dangerous and deranged as a Scutari shahzadix in heat." --David Zindell
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