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QuasimodoJones

08/21/01 11:56 AM

#3010 RE: Neuromancer #3009

Neuro/eris: Either of you ever read Eugene Zamyatin?

As in WE?

Damn you Dennis. Damn you to hell!

HAH~! AS EEF EYE COOT CAHR ABOUD THE OPINYONS OF A BLOATED SAC OF PROTOPLASM!!!!!!





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eris23

08/21/01 5:02 PM

#3018 RE: Neuromancer #3009

neuro: I had to cut and paste that header

> You are certainly right about the "classifications", but it's easier to keep track > > of the writers that way. Would anyone properly classify Lem's The >
> Futurological Congress as fantasy, SciFi, or as political commentary? Well, its > all three... but it's simply more convenient if we classify it as SciFi (although
> bookstores have taken to calling that section Fantasy/SciFi as if that fixes the > problem).

My favorite works by Lem are his shorts, heavily influenced by Borges. “A Perfect Vacuum” and “Imaginary Magnitude.” So many things are called ‘sci-fi’ because nobody knows what else to call them, and yet it’s misleading.

> Well... if you're female, single, and are not easily offended by moderately ugly > men, then perhaps we should get to know each other better.

I’m only easily offended by narrow minds and aggressive ignorance. I guess you aren’t in that category.

> After all, anyone who likes Lem...

:-D