At 06:37 PM 1/26/2002 -0500, you wrote: >At 10:14 PM 1/17/02 -0500 John Garcia wrote: > >On a different note.......... > > > >How many of you have read any of John Brunner's works? To be specific, > >"Stand on Zanzibar" > >On an interesting note, Dave Brin once cited "Stand on Zanzibar" as one of >his favorite SF novels of all time. > >JDG >__________________________________________________________ >John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ #3527685 > "Our campaign against international terrorism does not represent some > sort of 'clash of civilizations.' Instead, it is a clash between > civilization and those who would destroy it." -Amb. Richard N. Haass
that is interesting; i hadn't known that. on a further interesting note (at least i hope it is), Brunner adopted John Dos Passos' technique (in his USA trilogy) of breaking up the narrative with (fictional) newspaper articles, book quotations, etc. that shed light on the "big picture" surrounding the story. this is very similar to what Brin does in Earth. john
