[Writingworkshop] Nature submission

[Adam Holland]

Wow, I haven't read all of them, but I really like that Chiang story.
Try to find Doctorow's "Printcrime" I am sure it is on his website.


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Neale Morison <nmorison at mit.edu> 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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