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[FWD] Crawford Kilian (crawford_killian () mindlink bc ca): Re: Implausible
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 08:02:16 -0400
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 1994 00:20:46 -0400 From: Christopher Davis <ckd () loiosh kei com> We are all time travelers. We travel at the rate of 1 year per year. ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Path: news.kei.com!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!deep.rsoft.b c.ca!mindlink.bc.ca!a710 Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <50111 () mindlink bc ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: mindlink.bc.ca From: crawford_killian () mindlink bc ca (Crawford Kilian) Subject: Re: Implausible Near-Futures (was: Virtual Light) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 21:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Imagine it's 1980 and I'm going to pitch my editor at Del Rey Books about a novel set in the mid-1990s. I tell him my SF world has no Soviet Union; it fell apart without a major war. China is a communist state with a capitalist economy. The US is the world's biggest debtor nation. Washington DC is the murder capital of America. Germany has become a united nation while Yugoslavia has broken into little bits. Lech Valesa has become the widely ridiculed president of a free Poland. The US has recently fought a high-tech war in Iraq that left its dictator in place and restored a feudal aristocracy to power in Kuwait. Guess what kind of reaction my editor would have given me. - -- Crawford Kilian Communications Department Capilano College North Vancouver BC Canada V7J 3H5 Usenet: Crawford_Kilian () mindlink bc ca Internet: ckilian () cln etc bc ca ------- end -------
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