[John to Marsha] Did you ever read M. Scott Card, Ender's Game? I thought that the Locke and Demosthenes dialogues were finer examples of Platonic Avatarism than W. Gibson's cyberpunk world.
[Krimel] Orson Scott Card use of Locke and Demosthenes is rather like what we do here and what Vernor Vinge did in "True Names". Which is fine. I also notice that in the Ender Saga artificial intelligence, Ender's companion Jane emerges as intelligent from the growth of connections made possible by a galactic network of computers. Gibson's AI was developed as a tool for the fabulously wealthy. Gibson's AI goes crazy and fragments into multiple personalities. Card's Jane seem perfectly sane but has to hide her very existence from everyone but Ender. [John] Not that I didn't love William Gibson. What an exquisite taste in words that man has! [Krimel] I have found some of his work disappointing. I didn't care much for Spook Country and some of the Bridge stories but you are dead on when it comes to his writing. He really pisses me off though because he only put out a book every few years. I have ended up with most of his works in hardback because I can't wait for the paperback. As far as Card is concerned I have not really cared for his non-Ender stories. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
