From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:09:19 -0600 To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> From: "Lorenzo Fernando Bivens" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <596CF3F8D968D3268870A0B8@192.168.1.2> <5d375e920812030354q6ecca570oa02e1e7a2ae493b@mail.gmail.com> <536DBDE4CC9C2AF607C9CC21@192.168.1.2> <7871fcf50812031145l3f1de12dk26d4579c9442bf62@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50812031145l3f1de12dk26d4579c9442bf62@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.62 (Win32) Subject: Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5780b31a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.