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FALLEN_FUTURES

                                                   March     6, 2004
                                          Revised: November 13, 2004


Of late, I occasionally sit
down and force myself to               Despite my complaints about
read some of the good new SF           the difficulty of tracking
that's out there.                      down and identifying this
                                       kind of thing, really I have
   It takes a lot of work.             no difficulty amassing a
                                       large pile of candidates
   For example, Ken MaCleod,           that sit unread on my stacks.
   "Dark Light"...  a book
   that certainly doesn't
   seem terrible, that's                        IN_DEEP
   written by an author I
   know and respect already.

   I read a few hundred
   pages, and then just                                   ((other linkage?))
   put it aside.  Why?


If science fiction is a way             ETERNAL_HUMAN
of thinking maybe it's better
to think science fiction than
to read it.




                                (The generally poor quality of
                                much of SF must be a boon to the
                                SF writer: you can just keep
                                working and not worry much about
                                "keeping up with the field",
                                since you know it's not going
                                anywhere.)


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