Going back to "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn was pretty interesting. On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:07 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dave - > > Interesting / recommended: > > Movie — Mortal Engines. "We have to destroy London" London traveling > around the globe destroying all other mobile cities. > > Thanks... I have read the book and seen the movie. I've been a fan of > Steam Punk since Gibson/Sterling coined the genre with "The Difference > Engine", even though *most of it* is pretty weak, more like fan-fiction > than anything else. I suppose that Mortal Engines is closer to Diesel > Punk which I also (can) enjoy. The image of city-scale vehicles (with > city styling, presumably pulled up by the roots and made mobile by giant > traction engines) with what felt like collective personalities (from their > residents, weighted by the powerful of course) with their own agency (at > least a hunger to consume other cities for their fuel? and materials and > citizenry?). > > I'm a sucker for a good Post Apocalyptic and they have become wildly more > clever over the decades. Though going back to Canticle for Leibowitz and > Wells' work is good too. > > > Book — SEVENEVES by Neal Stephenson. Black hole destroys moon, three > arcologies (one a space station, one undersea, and one in Alaskan mine, > survive but ethnic strife among the seven "races" (each the descendants of > one of the Eves) survives as well. > > I'm a big fan of Stephenson, starting with Zodiac and peaking with > Snowcrash and Diamond Age. Diamond Age was an epic in it's own right and > virtually everything he has written since has been an Epic squared. I did > read Seveneves and enjoyed it as much as I have most/all of his other > Epic^2 works. I'm stuck halfway through "Fall; Dodge in Hell" which as > you must know is somewhat focused on a dystopian (utopian for some) > post-upload/AI future. > > - Steve > > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . > ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA [email protected] <[email protected]> mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merle.lelfkoff2 twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff
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