From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 20:40:17 +0000 From: Eris Discordia To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <67C8EC96D602631C61F06AB7@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: References: <596CF3F8D968D3268870A0B8@192.168.1.2> <5d375e920812030354q6ecca570oa02e1e7a2ae493b@mail.gmail.com> <536DBDE4CC9C2AF607C9CC21@192.168.1.2> <7871fcf50812031145l3f1de12dk26d4579c9442bf62@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 57ceae26-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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 wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:45:20 -0600, Joel C. Salomon > wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente >> 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. > >