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<p>On the topic of recent books and local authors:</p>
<p>I just finished Steven Kotler's latest work of Fiction - "<a
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href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250202093/thedevilsdictionary">The
Devil's Dictionary</a>". Kotler, who some of you may know lived
here (near Chimayo on their Rancho de Chihuahua dog-rescue
property) for about 10 years before moving on to build a house in
the Tahoe area after finally hitting the big time working with the
likes of Peter Diamandis. He and Joy probably have 1000 rescued
Chihuahuas on-property there.<br>
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<p>Kotler is a "Friend of FriAM" (or at least SFx) though I don't
know if he ever attended any coffee's or weigh in on the list.
He's been a hyper-manic wildman since I met him at a neuroscience
conference in 2008, moving roughly twice as fast as anyone else I
know. I helped him build a BMX dirt-track in his back yard
overlooked by a writers-shack he built at Rancho de Chihuahua
(chronicled in his book <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.stevenkotler.com/book-pages/small-furry-prayer">A
Small Furry Prayer</a>). He did a reading for this one at SFx
when it came out, some of you may have attended. SteveG (and
others here?) used to bomb moguls with Kotler. I can't find he
videos offhand but there are some from Furry Prayer era of him
running arroyos with a whole pack of rescued chihuahua mixes.<br>
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<p>Devil's Dictionary is a sequel to his "Last Tango in Cyberspace"
of a few years ago. Kotler weaves a LOT of contemporary topics
from Climate Change to Gene Editing to Synthetic Drugs to Crypto
into this Day-after-tomorrow CyberPunkEsque story with lots of
thinly disguised references to his own life and work as well as to
classic SciFi tropes. <br>
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<p>I'm not sure I would recommend this book to most of the crue
here, but definitely DaveW and maybe Marcus and Glen and Jon. It
focuses heavily on intuitive/empathic/flow experiences with
drug-enhancement and cutting (bleeding?) edge tech with the kind
of cacophonic wild ride that Cyberpunk usually carries with it. I
definitely enjoyed it myself.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/25/22 9:43 AM, Barry MacKichan
wrote:<br>
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<p dir="auto">Preston and a friend rode horses from the Mexican
border at Rio Pedro to Albuquerque and on to Santa Fe
eventually. This is approximately the route that Coronado took
in 1540. Some parts of it were in scary-rough mountains. He
wrote a book about it:<br>
“Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in
Pursuit of Coronado”</p>
<p dir="auto">Abraham Lincoln’s name became well known in 1858
when he and the incumbent senator for Illinois, Senator
Douglas, had a series of debates called the “Lincoln - Douglas
debates” that most of us in the US read about in school. This
comes to mind whenever I think of Douglas Preston and Lincoln
Child debate plot points in their collaboration.😏</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 22 Apr 2022, at 14:53, Jochen Fromm wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I've recently read "Diablo Mesa" from Douglas
Preston and Lincoln Child. It is surprisingly good and
combines Roswell, Aliens, FBI and even the SFI :-) As you
know Douglas Preston moved to Santa Fe in 1986.<br>
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