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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Jarmo Lundgren:
> >Ever read Neal Stephenson? He wrote Snowcrash, The Diamond Age [way cool
> >nano-techno, warped storyline, cyberpunk _exceptionelle_, and the last one:
> >Cryptonomicon, WW2 crypty and modern data-havens, not so cool as TDA, but
> >good anyway)
>
> Nope. Gotta check out...
yeah, Stephenson's stuff is excellent. he has an "eco-thriller"
called Zodiac that I can't really recommend. but his sci-fi rocks.
his latest one, I forget the name and Amazon doesn't list it, it's
set later in this century, the US gov't has nearly disintegrated,
there's a guy in Lousiana mucking with biotech, it's a very very
good book.
> >Asimovs robot-detectives are excellent...
>
> Yep!
he's from the "old school" of sci-fi, like Arthur C Clarke's stuff,
but that's the stuff I grew up on. then people like Ursula K LeGuin
came along and shook it all up.
I got lucky last fall. I went to an antikvaariat shop in helsinki and
found an entire drawer full of sci-fi paperbacks from the fifties and
sixties !! I bought a shitload ! some really wild stuff. one was
written in the late 50's and describers a world where everything is
run by advertising agencies, and they have wars with each other.
> >Anybody read Bill Joy's (part of the brains behind Sun Micro) article "Why
> >the future doesn't need us"?
> >If not:
> >http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
>
> I've read about this in a Finnish newspaper (Helsingin Sanomat)....
> Very interesting... And frightening...
I think he's spot on. nowadays any pissed-off grad bio student
can start mutating viruses and germs.
> >I once saw the old BW (or BY more like it) move, what's it called...
> >Metropolis, I guess, but for sound and emotion mixed with tekno-music from
> >a DJ... was weird!
>
> Some jazz composer - from Netherlands, if I remember this correctly -
> made a long composition called "Metropolis". I edited a version of
> Metropolis with that music as the soundtrack. Worked very well,
> actually, although the tune was way too short for the whole movie...
>
> Experimental jazz really spices up Metropolis! :)
hey but come ON, there was some group that always did this
in�Turku at Taiteiden Yo. they playes their own soundtrack
for the film. who was the group ? are they still doing it ?
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fred
