> Today though we've created the strange idea that an musician should be able to record their music once, and get paid for it repeatedly over the course of the next century.
Much worse: in most cases the money doesn't even reach the artist or if only a small part of it does. content industry has managed to lobby "a right to print money" for themselves.
many good others have been named - from this I would recommend Tad Williams "Otherland", Ive never reached 400 pages in english read on one day as a german native speaker before.
If you dont know the brothers Strugatsky
- though they are the same not new as Lem and Asimov -, their "Roadside Picnic" is one of the best ever written.
http://www-win.rusf.ru/abs/english/e-index2.htm
is a good site about them.
Thanks to all taking part on this thread, I ve found some interesting books to get a read on, important here in austria as on german bookmarket some publishers dont reprint good sf e.g. Asimov, some produce only expensive hardcovers (Tad Williams and to the pity of all parents Harry Potter)
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And what has this in any sense to do with hardware you buy, or don't you own your car either? You know, comparing apples and oranges.
> Today though we've created the strange idea that an musician should be able to record their music once, and get paid for it repeatedly over the course of the next century. Much worse: in most cases the money doesn't even reach the artist or if only a small part of it does. content industry has managed to lobby "a right to print money" for themselves.
many good others have been named - from this I would recommend Tad Williams "Otherland", Ive never reached 400 pages in english read on one day as a german native speaker before. If you dont know the brothers Strugatsky - though they are the same not new as Lem and Asimov -, their "Roadside Picnic" is one of the best ever written. http://www-win.rusf.ru/abs/english/e-index2.htm is a good site about them. Thanks to all taking part on this thread, I ve found some interesting books to get a read on, important here in austria as on german bookmarket some publishers dont reprint good sf e.g. Asimov, some produce only expensive hardcovers (Tad Williams and to the pity of all parents Harry Potter)