[Writingworkshop] Nature submission

[Neale Morison]

Not too fussed about some of the stories they've published so far.
(stuff that was published in Futures in nature: 
http://www.concatenation.org/futuresindex.html )
Why are computers and nanotechnology equally boring? One we know too 
well, the other we know not at all. Maybe it's because they both break 
the Aristotelian rules of drama. They both permit anything to happen, so 
everything is a Deus ex Machina that robs us of tragic inevitability. Or 
maybe they're just boring.

Scores out of 10
Brin: 3
Chiang: 3
Eggleman: 6
Gee: 7
Gunn: 7
Klages: 7
Metzger: 7
Sterling: 8 sort of obvious, but seriously funny
Stross: 7 Nigerian scam update, not deep but cute

Any other takes?