Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 06:01:14 06/14/02
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The name of my program "Sunsetter" comes from a highly distributed program "battling" another program for important knowledge in C.Hinz "The Paratwa", a SciFi novel. Note that the novel itself is rather ordinary and not recommended. The only interesting concept is the notion of "connected minds". Two people interfacing and creating a third "super-personality" that controls two bodies. This idea is *a lot* better used in Vernor Vinge's novels. IMHO he is the master of idea-based "hard" sense-of-wonder SciFi. Good order to read his books is: - "A Deepness in the Sky" (a prequel but warning: only with a single character in common) - "A Fire upon the Deep" - the short story "The Blabber" (in "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge", soon to be out in paperback too) Regards, Georg
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