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To: SamAdams76
If you have any interest in Science Fiction, I recommend "The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson. It's set in a future with abundant nanotechnology and with demographic groups arranged in tribes or "phyles". One of the dominant (technologically, culturally) phyles is New Atlantis which follows a Victorian cultural sensibility. They are disciplined, self-controlled moralists and they are able to use these character traits to maintain a top position in global society.

The book is a combination of Charles Dickens and Cyberpunk. Somewhat Steampunk, but not quite.

79 posted on 09/08/2007 5:15:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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I’ll be at the library today so I’ll see if I can check it out. Sounds interesting but I hope they at least get to dress down for the beach.


80 posted on 09/08/2007 5:22:18 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 79 days away from outliving Freddie Mercury)
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