Oh yeah,I saw the documentary on that down in Anaheim. Some guy named walt and his friends? Animated? Pictures of vertical freeways and flying cars? Yes, we definitely need research on this, but you're gonna be able to crowd-surf to work before we'll get a viable mass-transportation solution out of it.
I also enjoyed Macroscope... read it as a kid, and enjoyed the issues raised by sort of ender's game kids now working as adults.
Rings of Ice and Triple Detente are interesting themes, but done in semi-shallow form.
Anthonology is a good answer for those looking for heavy themes from Piers... In The Barn, and On the Uses of Torture being the easy picks. Before the Xanth stuff, he did some seriously edgy work... I agreed with him that it should have been included in Dangerous Visions.
Anyone read Battle Circle? I thought that was some of his best early work especially given IIRC that he wrote it as his thesis while in college.
I, too fell down the adult well and got stuck around Xanth 12 or 13, but went through adept, incarnations, tyrant, Uncollected Stars (which he edited), as well as the books listed above. The authors notes, I think, were a highlight for me that I've not found since... just general human life stuff, along with the monumental ugly battles of an author trying to get published.
I'll often remember calling up 1800hipiers (before it became a sex line), to see about getting on the fan list. A real person answered. Just said "hello?". Knocked me back no end. Took down my information over the phone and said "Ok, you're in". That never happens.
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Wouldn't it be easier to replace a Boss with this program? Receptionists are expected to Think and Interact Productively.
Oh yeah,I saw the documentary on that down in Anaheim. Some guy named walt and his friends? Animated? Pictures of vertical freeways and flying cars? Yes, we definitely need research on this, but you're gonna be able to crowd-surf to work before we'll get a viable mass-transportation solution out of it.
I also enjoyed Macroscope... read it as a kid, and enjoyed the issues raised by sort of ender's game kids now working as adults.
Rings of Ice and Triple Detente are interesting themes, but done in semi-shallow form.
Anthonology is a good answer for those looking for heavy themes from Piers... In The Barn, and On the Uses of Torture being the easy picks. Before the Xanth stuff, he did some seriously edgy work... I agreed with him that it should have been included in Dangerous Visions.
Anyone read Battle Circle? I thought that was some of his best early work especially given IIRC that he wrote it as his thesis while in college.
I, too fell down the adult well and got stuck around Xanth 12 or 13, but went through adept, incarnations, tyrant, Uncollected Stars (which he edited), as well as the books listed above. The authors notes, I think, were a highlight for me that I've not found since... just general human life stuff, along with the monumental ugly battles of an author trying to get published.
I'll often remember calling up 1800hipiers (before it became a sex line), to see about getting on the fan list. A real person answered. Just said "hello?". Knocked me back no end. Took down my information over the phone and said "Ok, you're in". That never happens.