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From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Ref. Computers in SF
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 19:09:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 19:09:25 1985
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> From: Richard.G.Turner, PERI-ET, USARI  <rturner@usadhq2>
>
> The recent query about stories with computers reminded me of one I really
> enjoyed several years ago. I don't remember title or author, but it seems
> that it was on the line of short-story, novelette, length.
>
> The story was a series of vignettes taking part at various points in man's
> history, starting with the computer era and ending (or re-beginning) after
> the universe had run down from entropy. All that was left at that time was a
> computer which had evolved to the point that it existed as pure energy.
>
> Anyone else remember this one?
>
> rick

Great story!  I can't remember the title, but it was written by Spider
Robinson and had to do with a planet made out of mushrooms.  Or something
like that :-).

    Scott R. Turner
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