OFF: work and love of space...

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On mån 25 jan 1999 11.00 +0000 "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
> 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.

     Damnit, it's arrestingly similar to the the setting I planned
for a novel I hope to develop from one fo my old short stories
about a near-future rock band (perhaps somewhat inspired by certain
bands known to this list ;)  It was going to be set in a
Britain dominated by yer standard industrial cartels and dictatorial
governments who wanted you all loyal to them, stupid and complacent,
or dead.  Our heroes would fight to save the world, etc. (and
rescue it from canned pop music, of course ;)

     Not very deep, but I can't stand deep stuff as
entertainment :)

     Sounds like I should read MacLeod's book though!

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/