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

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

> I've read that it talks about what would have
> happened if Allende had succeded implementing Cybersyn...
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn] I am looking for reading
> this book.

That is the most interesting thing I've come by in months. Shame on Augusto
Pinochet, unaugust scoundrel, forever.

--On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:09 PM -0600 Lorenzo Fernando Bivens
<lorenzobivens@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:45:20 -0600, Joel C. Salomon
> <joelcsalomon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
>> <lorenzobivens@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think Dune is a must read for any scifi fan...
>>
>> Dune is one of the few books I put down partly-read. Came a point
>> where I just didn't care what happened to the characters on the other
>> side of the page, and I never turned the page to look.
>>
>
> The story is interesting... But it takes too long to get into
> something... I have found that people love the book or hate it... I read
> that book while living in the middle of the Atacama Desert... Ambience
> helps...
>
> There are a couple of  "mainstream" scifi books that I've read while
> travelling and I have enjoyed: "The Andromeda strain" (Crichton) (Both
> the book and the old movie... Avoid, really, the recent remake)... I also
> liked a book called "The terminal Experiment" (Sawyer)...
>
> For those speaking spanish... There is a book called "Synco" written by a
> chilean writer called Jorge Baradit... I've not read it yet... But it
> sounds very interesting... I've read that it talks about what would have
> happened if Allende had succeded implementing Cybersyn...
> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn] I am looking for reading
> this book.
>
>