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androids, genetics
Posted: 27 Mar 2007, 19:48
by Grotocult
Just read this book
http://www.amazon.com/Wetware-Craig-Nova/dp/1400031176
And now have commenced William Gibson's Idoru.
Please recommend books about androids, cyborgs or genetically-modified human beings that I might enjoy. Thanks.
Garry.
Posted: 28 Mar 2007, 01:30
by Eviltoastman
Posted: 28 Mar 2007, 09:47
by judasmuppet
Read any Asimov?
Posted: 31 Mar 2007, 09:36
by Dress Barn
Gatica (sp)
Posted: 06 Apr 2007, 14:04
by Grotocult
Pfft, I thought you guys are meant to be geeks.
Just finished Idoru. So-so; Gibson is very overrated.
Posted: 08 Apr 2007, 03:32
by judasmuppet
Idoru isn't one of his "important" works. I read All Tomorrow's Parties, which is supposedly the third part in the "Bridge" trilogy, and that is much weaker than the early "Sprawl" stuff. I don't know if it'd be worth revisiting for you, but Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are better.
Asimov?
Posted: 08 Apr 2007, 10:38
by Grotocult
Yeah I'll try some Asimov, but unless Gibson talks about something other than 'virtual' reality, I'm not really interested. Virtual reality=emperor's new clothes. Nothing is 'virtual'...it's all physical matter in the end.