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Re: What's Permanence about?
by Jerry Wright on Saturday March 15, @11:35PM
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| Karl, I loved this book, and I will be discussing it on the Asimov forum ( http://asimovs.com/discus )
as well as in my e-zine "Bewildering Stories".
It was a great, and fast, read, and thought provoking. Initially I was reminded of Heinlein, so go ahead, get a swelled head. I really liked Meadow-Rue and Michael. Well drawn characters. But...
The part of the story that really makes me think is your creation of the "Rights Economy". I see it coming, with the concern over intellectual property and copyrights.
Of course, if they could, Microsoft, et al, would lease their software to us for monthly micropayments, and anyone who, for example, wrote software using a Microsoft program would pay them monthly and collect monthly payments from their users. And on, and on... The final result is scary, and well delineated in your story.
I haven't read Ventus yet, but now I'm going to have to.
See what you've done?
--Jerry |
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