[Writingworkshop] Nature submission

[Antony Nigel Donovan]

BTW, Charles Stross will be doing a signing at Pandemonium in Central
Square on February 19th.

Antony

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 22:05 -0500, Neale Morison wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
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