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Originally Posted by tompe
I really liked her first book Ghost Sisters. It is one of the few science fiction books that I have read that have used philosopy in a good way. You notice that she know he subject (she has a Phd in philosophy).
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I believe her PhD is actually in Artificial Intelligence. But yes, she has the formal philosophy training.
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[I asked her about the philosophy at a BSFA meeting in London and the things I had noticed as especially interesting was according to her intentionally put there.
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I'm not surprised.
And she spent time in international education, living in places like Kazakhstan, so a good bit of her backgrounds in the books is drawn from observation.
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A paper copy of Snake Agent is currently half a meter from my computer and will be read aftet i have read Ian McDonalds Brasyl.
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You are in for a treat, but I suspect you know that.
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Dennis