[FRIAM] Homo Hiveus or Bio Slime?

[Merle Lefkoff]

Going back to "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn was pretty interesting.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:07 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> Dave -
>
> Interesting / recommended:
>
> Movie — Mortal Engines.  "We have to destroy London"  London traveling
> around the globe destroying all other mobile cities.
>
> 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?).
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> - Steve
>
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