Zodiac by Neal Stephenson • g*****o@k****.****t.net 24/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC Zodiac is a strange Eco-thriller which I found to be a lot better then Stephenson's last book, Diamond Age. It's amazing how different each books is from each other. The one element that I did find exactly similar in each book was the criminal mastermind always uses a giant ship as a base of operation. The good guys always have to find their way onto the ship in order to confront their foe. --Glen • p*******x@p***.****i.com 25/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC Glen (g*****o@k****.****t.net) somehow managed to write: : Zodiac is a strange Eco-thriller which I found to be a lot better then : Stephenson's last book, Diamond Age. It's amazing how different each : books is from each other. The one element that I did find exactly similar : in each book was the criminal mastermind always uses a giant ship as a : base of operation. The good guys always have to find their way onto the : ship in order to confront their foe. intersting...don't recall that in diamond age, but then, i didn't LIKE diamond age all that much...all the same flaws of Snow Crash, only more so! -- 73 de Dave Weingart KB2CWF "Can you find the Valium? mailto:p*******x@****.com Can you bring it soon? mailto:p*******x@e******.*********n.edu Lost Johnny's out there http://www.liii.com/~phydeaux Baying at the Moon" -- Hawkwind BY SENDING UNSOLICTED, COMMERCIAL SPAM EMAIL TO THIS ADDRESS, YOU HEREBY AGREE TO RECEIVE UP TO 20 MEGABYTES OF RANDOM CORE DUMP INFORMATION. • g*****o@k****.****t.net 27/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC : intersting...don't recall that in diamond age, but then, i didn't LIKE : diamond age all that much...all the same flaws of Snow Crash, only : more so! In fact they had two different boat scenes where the two good guys had to board in Diamond Age. The first giant boat was the Passenger boat filled with all the girl orphans from the war. I beleive the Judge [Judge Fang?] was invited onboard by that Technological Criminal Genius from the Celestial Kingdom. The other boat that was used was the Great Acting Boat where those two Vickies went to learn more information about the Alchemist. The father was forced to play a part in the boat-performance. In fact, the people in charge of the boat KNOW before you get there if you are there to see a play or for other reason. If you are not there to see a play, you get sucked into the performance. One other minor boat scene, a boat filled with Hydrogen gas tanks was launched in the direction of an important bridge or building. It was an attack from the Celestial Kingdom. It just seems that this author has a thing about boats. Oh no, Toner war today! ........ --Glen • s******r@s**.***.*****n.edu 27/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC In article <52ghai$***@r****.****t.net>, g*****o@k****.****t.net (Glen) writes: > It just seems that this author has a thing about boats. Oh no, Toner war > today! ........ Here's one thing that bothered me about the Toner wars. Those little microbots were all made out of diamond. Thousands of tons of the things come down in the rain. Why is the abrasion caused by these things not a *huge* problem for everybody? Stephenson could have addressed this without much effort. -- K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin L. Sterner | U. Penn. High Energy Physics | Smash the welfare state! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • g*****o@k****.****t.net 27/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC : In fact they had two different boat scenes where the two good guys had to : board in Diamond Age. The first giant boat was the Passenger boat filled : with all the girl orphans from the war. I beleive the Judge [Judge Fang?] : was invited onboard by that Technological Criminal Genius from the : Celestial Kingdom. I almost forgot about the ending of Diamond Age. The Little girls "Mice Army" all linked their arms together to create a human boat and they floated away across the sea to get away from the Celestial Kingdom Army. --Glen • s******j@**.com 29/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC In article <52l2j2$***@u*******.****.*******y.com>, Jill Rappaport wrote: >s******j@**.com (Stefan E. Jones) wrote:   >>   >>Neal Stephenson's first novel, _The Big U_, had no boats in it.   >>   >>On the other hand, it did have giant radioactive mutant rats, and jock-   >>headed morons, and a giant macaroni and cheese cassarole. >How can you beat throwing a flaming couch out the window... >especially when you know that the person who did that in >the first place has their doctorate and is influencing young >minds... Good lord! You mean the flaming couch that killed the Nobel Laureate incident was based on a real life thing from Boston U (I remember you had a prof from there or something)? SEJ -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ ***@***.com ~ s*****s@a*****.***u.edu ~ s******j@**.com http://www.ini.cmu.edu/~sjones/ CHARGES APPLIED FOR UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL! • s******j@**.com 27/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC Neal Stephenson's first novel, _The Big U_, had no boats in it. On the other hand, it did have giant radioactive mutant rats, and jock- headed morons, and a giant macaroni and cheese cassarole. --SEJ -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ ***@***.com ~ s*****s@a*****.***u.edu ~ s******j@**.com http://www.ini.cmu.edu/~sjones/ CHARGES APPLIED FOR UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL! • y******d@p******y.com 29/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC s******j@**.com (Stefan E. Jones) wrote: >Neal Stephenson's first novel, _The Big U_, had no boats in it. >On the other hand, it did have giant radioactive mutant rats, and jock- >headed morons, and a giant macaroni and cheese cassarole. How can you beat throwing a flaming couch out the window... especially when you know that the person who did that in the first place has their doctorate and is influencing young minds... Jill