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From: davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar)
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Subject: Re: Amber Waves etc (computers in SF)
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 14:11:06 EDT
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> 
>         One thing  I  have  noticed  recently  is  a  rash  of  fairly
> reputable  SF  writers including their computers in a novel.  There is
> some of this in TOD but the last Gateway story is  probably  a  better
> example.  I  have  an  image  of these guys being given a Trash-80 for
> their birthday and after a month or so the illness strikes.  Getting a
> little  tired  of  every  protaganist being a computer whiz especially
> when the writer has only a superficial background to go on.

  Zelazny wrote "Coils" with Saberhagen (sp?) many moons ago, before
it was a craze. He also wrote "The Changling" and another one in the
same world. All three of these did a goo job of dealing with technology,
and "Coils" with computers specifically. I hope that you were not
grouping Zelazny in the "... writer has only a superficial background...".
Though, I must admit, I was not too wild about the Ghostwheel. But it was
a bit more than your average computer ... :-)

 
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