robertsl@stolaf.UUCP (Laurence C. Roberts) (01/25/86)
I tried to mail a letter to the person who posted the preveous article on Cyberpunks/Neuromantics, but it got bounced twice. Anyway, the upshot is that I went out and bought _Three_Ring_Psychus_ by John Shirley. It was seemingly a typical end-of-the-world book, kinda poorly written, perhaps a little more anti-authoritarian than most. What appealed to me about it was its total disregard for "science". Perhaps this is what Shirley meant by "With the movement, SF is unbound." Generally what this ammounted to was when something was explained, the supposed causes would have actually led to the opposite effects. For instance, the fact that the sun still "rises" and "sets" is used as evidence that the lack of gravity is not caused by a cessasion of rotation on the part of the Earth. If my physics is screwed up as much as Shirley's, I don't want to hear about it, ok? What the book reminded me of was Disch's _The_Genocides_ without the depression. In fact, everything ends up on a more-or-less positive note, although there is a hint that things may still not be utterly utopian, at least if you're a human who likes autonomy. Anyway, I have been so far unable to find any books by Rudy Rucker, although St. Olaf's science library supposedly has a could of books by a Rudy Rucker on the subject of the fourth dimension. If anybody actually read the articles in Locus which prompted this whole discussion, could he/she please post something about said articles' contents? And if the person who posted the preveous article reads this, try to contact me. -- Laurence Roberts ...ihnp4!stolaf!robertsl