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This thread is for comments about Make It New!, by Matthew Cheney
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johngilbert
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This is a great column! Matthew, if you could keep the cyberhumanism thing going for 1000 pages, it would be a best seller for sure.
I like the Mesop revelation too. And yes, it does seem to be a year with very little going on...
John Gilbert
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Anonymous
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Funny piece! "The New Blurb" is perhaps intended as satire, but the real "Blurbisms" are very, very close to the satire -- in fact, they go further.
Here's a blurb for an actual novel (I swear I'm not making this up) which appeared on the ASIMOV's message board recently -- someone posted a press release there:
"What makes this book unique from other metaphysical stories, however, is that fact that it answers through pure logic alone many of the most fundamental riddles known to man – the nature of infinity, the certainties of the universe, and the conceptual Theory of Everything, just to name a few. The author even claims that the very meaning of life is buried somewhere in the text.
"Readers at various ages (starting at 12 years old reading level) will enjoy this work, which is destined to be one of the bestseller books of 2005. It is not very often to find a book, which treats philosophy through the prism of Dragons’ lives and knowledge in such a powerful way."
Now THAT's a mouthful. Of brown stuff.
-A.R.Yngve
http://yngve.bravehost.com
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Anonymous
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Each movement comes from the bowels of SF & F. If this year's constipation worries you, find your local book suppository -- and use it.
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Jed Hartman
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Reged: Oct 15 2003
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Belatedly: just got a chance to read this; good stuff. I was particularly amused by the title Tom Swift and the Dilating Door. And the nigh-Spinradian use of the term "neuromantics."
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