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I'll preface this review by mentioning that I've been in love with this book ever since I first read it when it came out. I loved it so much that it rode my top three books of all time for many, many years, and I even jumped at the chance to meet the author in a speech he made about the transparent society and I even cornered him afterward to let him know how much I appreciated him.
This was in the mid-'90s shortly after Glory Season had come out.
I just said, "Mr. Brin, I just wanted to let you k ...more
This was in the mid-'90s shortly after Glory Season had come out.
I just said, "Mr. Brin, I just wanted to let you k ...more
second read - 24 October 2011 - ***** I enjoyed this much more than I think I did when I first read it 16 years ago. While the purpose of science fiction is not typically to predict the future with accuracy, I was quite impressed with the accuracy of David Brin's predictions in this book, as well with his synthesis of multiple scientific disciplines. I found one of his fictional reference passages, to be very interesting -
"Nations are often likened to living bodies. And so, oldtime state sociali ...more
"Nations are often likened to living bodies. And so, oldtime state sociali ...more
Mar 16, 2011
Scott
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