Vorkosigan reread at Tor.com
Over at tor.com, they have started a complete Vorkosigan reread with Falling Free...
http://www.tor.com/series/rereading-t...
It doesn't look as if it's going to be fast-paced, but on the other hand, it should last a good long time.
Ta, L.
http://www.tor.com/series/rereading-t...
It doesn't look as if it's going to be fast-paced, but on the other hand, it should last a good long time.
Ta, L.
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As long as they reread faster than Lois writes they should eventually catch up. Three years might do it. LOL
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The Quaddies are classified in the project inventory as post-fetal experimental tissue cultures.ROFLMAO
If I read that way back when I don't remember it. Must have laughed then too.
Is the 1988 publishing date a coincidence?<<< The Human Genome Project (HGP) is an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint. It remains the world's largest collaborative biological project. After the idea was picked up in 1984 by the US government the planning started, with the project formally launched in 1990, and finally declared complete in 2003. >>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_G...
The changes in computing during that time accelerated the project. We may have Quaddies by 2100.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rc...
Karl wrote: "Is the 1988 publishing date a coincidence?>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_G...
The changes in computing during that time accelerated the project. We may have Quaddies by 2100.
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Coincidence with what?
It was the time it took me to write the book, finish it, run it through its Analog serialization, and have it be fitted into Baen's publishing schedule.
Ta, L.
Lois wrote: "Coincidence with what?"Since you were in the medical industry I was wondering if you had heard or read anything implying that the Human Genome Project was being proposed and that might have inspired the story.
Karl wrote: "Lois wrote: "Coincidence with what?"Since you were in the medical industry I was wondering if you had heard or read anything implying that the Human Genome Project was being proposed and that mig..."
Nope. I wrote the story in ~1986, quite independently of the genome project, which I did not hear about till many years later.
It was inherently obvious that genome project/s and everything that ensued (and much more) would have to have happened in the Vorkosiverse, for the VK world to have the biotech it does. Once people knew that genes were molecules, mapping them is the first step to all the next steps -- although not a turn of science that would have been practical before computers. Automated gene sequencing of course was developed for the genome project and related research, and from that, more accelerated development has spun out subsequently.
Back about then I recall some reviewer criticizing my VK biotech on the grounds that the sort of insta-science I was describing would take whole labs and thousands of man-hours. Now, I think I was too conservative in my projections.
Ta, L.
Lois wrote: "Back about then I recall some reviewer criticizing my VK biotech on the grounds that the sort of insta-science I was describing would take whole labs and thousands of man-hours. Now, I think I was too conservative in my projections.The microelectronics revolution has taken everyone by surprise and it has not stopped yet. The lack of pocket computers in the Vorkosiverse is one of the things that makes it seem dated but It can't be retrofit now.
