As a distinguished plastic surgeon in the Hollywood area I have perforemed thousands of breast augmentation procedures, (You should see my bank account. It would make you cry.) and in my professional opinion, I like dem big 'ol titties!
This is the bleeding edge of humanoid robot tech and I can't help thinking, THIS IS IT! Sure, it's impressive, compared to what came before it, but compared to humans it just ain't much to crow about. When is a independent humanoid robot going to be built that can actually replace a human at an industrial task like assembly or repair?
I too loved those four (really two) books and definatley wish he would write some more in that universe, perhaps a prequal thing about how the Hegemon was formed or the introduction of the farcasters, or maybe something about the lions, and tigers and bears. The first and last books are the best, IMCO. I loved it when we found out how JESUSgirl (I really don't remember names well at all, but I can remember plot really well. Weird.) had spent that missing time in the future having a kid with The Hero. It brought tears to my eyes. And DAMN did I want a Farcaster house!
It was almost physically painful reading the end of "The Fall of Hyperion" when The Great Bitch has the Farcaster network destroyed. I almost got the feeling while reading that Simmons was enjoying destroying the magnificant economy/society (hell are they really different things any longer?) he had so carefully made.
What was your favorite story from the first book? Mine was the poets. It was just so funny and well-written. Simmons really conveyed the poets personality in the writing, and taht is why he is such a damn good author.
Actually, Dan DID use his AIs to invent something impossible: those really nifty farcasters ("no people or group of people have ever been able to understand how they operate" or something to that effect). Also, and rather ironicly, the AIs themselves created a sort of religion surrounding the ULTIMATE INTELLIGENCE that they were trying to build, an AI that was by definition supposed to be able to answer those questions in your first post.
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As a distinguished plastic surgeon in the Hollywood area I have perforemed thousands of breast augmentation procedures, (You should see my bank account. It would make you cry.) and in my professional opinion, I like dem big 'ol titties!
This is the bleeding edge of humanoid robot tech and I can't help thinking, THIS IS IT! Sure, it's impressive, compared to what came before it, but compared to humans it just ain't much to crow about. When is a independent humanoid robot going to be built that can actually replace a human at an industrial task like assembly or repair?
Are you racist or is this just your lame-ass attempt at extremely bad-taste humor? This should be -3,NOT FUNNY
I too loved those four (really two) books and definatley wish he would write some more in that universe, perhaps a prequal thing about how the Hegemon was formed or the introduction of the farcasters, or maybe something about the lions, and tigers and bears. The first and last books are the best, IMCO. I loved it when we found out how JESUSgirl (I really don't remember names well at all, but I can remember plot really well. Weird.) had spent that missing time in the future having a kid with The Hero. It brought tears to my eyes. And DAMN did I want a Farcaster house! It was almost physically painful reading the end of "The Fall of Hyperion" when The Great Bitch has the Farcaster network destroyed. I almost got the feeling while reading that Simmons was enjoying destroying the magnificant economy/society (hell are they really different things any longer?) he had so carefully made. What was your favorite story from the first book? Mine was the poets. It was just so funny and well-written. Simmons really conveyed the poets personality in the writing, and taht is why he is such a damn good author.
Actually, Dan DID use his AIs to invent something impossible: those really nifty farcasters ("no people or group of people have ever been able to understand how they operate" or something to that effect). Also, and rather ironicly, the AIs themselves created a sort of religion surrounding the ULTIMATE INTELLIGENCE that they were trying to build, an AI that was by definition supposed to be able to answer those questions in your first post.