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[M Holmes]

Dave Berry writes:

> At 12:13 22/01/99 -0000, Andy Gilham wrote:
> >And my car won't run on unleaded petrol :)
>
> And you have "tested on animals" stickers on your bathroom goods?
>
> Dave.
>
> (Idea taken from "The Stone Canal", by Ken MacLeod.  Anarchist SF; it
> contains the best joke in SF, IMO.  His first book, "The Star Fraction", is
> even better, and lists a certain Mike Holmes among the credits).

Even apart from the possibility I might be biased, I wholeheartedly
recommend Ken's book (and it's two followups) to all readers of futurist
SF.

The book outlines a future wherein Britain is a balkanised state where
each special interest group has it's own political ministate and is
ruled by the New Hanoverian Government backed by a dictatorial UN.
Research on bio-enhancement, smart drugs, and artificial intelligence is
outlawed. Meanwhile a neo-socialist Scottish AI is planning revolution
and may need the help of a streetwise gun for hire in the libertarian
ministate of Northy London Town to settle some scores.

Smart drugs, smart women and smart guns: the future is in a state. Or is it?

FoFP