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Message #12065



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Thomas Pilgaard" ascii@hum.auc.dk
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:54:23 +0100
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Interesting, ain't it?


Make it five now, I've only just read the thread, but I've read the story
couple of years ago.

:) Thomas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-beam@sgiblab.sgi.com [mailto:owner-beam@sgiblab.sgi.com]On
> Behalf Of Dave Hrynkiw
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 6:45 AM
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: Interesting, ain't it?
>
>
> At 08:35 PM 3/13/00 , Ben Hitchcock wrote:
> > > Here we are meeting people across the void of cyberspace and
> out of the
> >40 or so million people using the net, I end up on a small list of robot
> >enthusiasts (considered outcasts and fools by the establishment) and two
> >others have read that story! Gives one pause to think about coincidence
> >and it's function in the universe...
> >
> >
> >Make that three!
>
> Try four, but I didn't recognize the title until you described the
> plot-line. Guess Sci-Fi is what tech-heads are drawn to in the
> off-robot-hours, hmmm? "Day of the Triffids" is one of my faves tho. And
> nothing has topped "Ender's Game" yet, although the new "Ender's
> Shadow" is
> a very good read. THOROUGHLY GOOD READS, all of them.
>
> -Dave
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> "Um, no - that's H,R,Y,N,K,I,W. No, not K,I,U,U, K,I,_W_. Yes,
> that's right. Yes, I know it looks like "HOCKYRINK." Yup, only
> 2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
> http://www.solarbotics.com
>

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