Re: Under-Appreciated Gems of Scientific Epistemology

From: Bruce Sinclair (bruce.sinclair_at_NOSPAMagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:41:14 GMT

In article <2mo9l3Fo9to3U2@uni-berlin.de>, Dirk Bruere at Neopax <dirk@neopax.com> was seen to type:
>Uncle Al wrote:
(snip)
>>>>Well, for me Neuromancer came close when it first came out.
>>>>In general, SF.
>>>
>>>Yes ... much SF. It encourages the use of imagination.
>>>For me, probably the JG ballard ones and the phillip *** book with
>>>"ice 9" in it (been a long time since I read that so this is IIRC :)
>>>). Apply the precautionary prionciple ... always :)
>>
>> "Ice-9" is Vonnegut. Vonnegut writes about wry social
>> dysfunction, *** writes about damning perceptual ambiguity.

Ah. Quite right. My thanks.

>***'s more metaphysical stuff wears better over the years than almost all
>'hard' SF.

Yep. It's still a hard read :)

Bruce

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