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[bigredclifford]

A year or so ago I posted a short story, The Last Question by Isaac Asimov. It seemed to get a positive reaction so I'm going to post another short story that I enjoyed reading. It's called 'Jipi and the Paranoid Chip' and it's by Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash. I cut a small part of the story off at the beginning in order to skip right to

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[i_am_fuse]

Sort of a disclaimer first, and I only really realised it last year, but I really don't find myself enjoying sci-fi much. I could try and explain but I don't think I'd do a good job. Plus I'm no literary critic either. Anyway.

I was reading the first part of this and was really not getting on with it, and I don't think things like Batman / Pac-Man similies were really helping me get into the swing of things. I guess with the boss character too, I found a lot of the development to be contradictory. Still, it got on to the action part and from then on I seemed to enjoy it more.

The concept in general was pretty interesting, but the fluff surrounding it and the characters didn't really get me.

Also lol 46 and 2.

[8bit_wintermute]

It's a bit like someone watched "Dark star" and decided to work backwards from that plot in order to shoehorn it into a different story.