Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

[Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

> "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is now a 'short story'? Or your
> "sci-fi" expertise is equivalent to your technical "expertise"?

You're right. It's a novel--a "long story." I haven't read it. Which is why
I didn't recommend it. I named and recommended what I had read.

--On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:54 PM +0100 Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Eris Discordia
> <eris.discordia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At last, something I can claim expertise in--you actually see the
>> "sci-fi" expertise showing on my feeble attempts at technicality ;-)
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Then there's Philip K. Dick. One of his short stories was recommended (by
>> which the film Blade Runner was inspired).
>
> "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" is now a 'short story'? Or your
> "sci-fi" expertise is equivalent to your technical "expertise"?
>
> Peace
>
> uriel
>
> PS.: And I agree with yy, it is a very recommendable book, as is most
> work by P.K. Dick. Also is very recommendable almost everything by
> Jack Vance, although it is less 'sci-fi' and more high quality
> literature.
>