<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Going back to "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn was pretty interesting.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:07 PM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-family:Arial">Interesting / recommended:<br>
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<div style="font-family:Arial">Movie — Mortal Engines. "We have
to destroy London" London traveling around the globe destroying
all other mobile cities.<br>
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<p>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?).</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<div style="font-family:Arial">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.<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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