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Old 02-09-2012, 03:58 PM   #157
bill_mchale
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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph View Post
Have either of you read the Brainship series by Anne McCaffery? Only the first 3-4 are decent but the technology seems to be holding up pretty well. There are some things that we are on the cusp of...but most of it (from what I remember) was still pretty far away. The series started in the late '70s IIRC.

First book in series: The Ship Who Sang
No I can't say that I have read them. I read a few Anne McCaffery books, they were ok, but they never really inspired me to seek out everything she wrote like Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke did.

Now, I will say, that Dune holds up remarkably well. Inventing a Universe where computer technology is constrained by history makes it feel less dated.

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