From: eugene@maya.wintermarket.com   
      
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   >>vagans@circuit-riders.net wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Mine's Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong.   
   >>   
   >>There aren't many of those to choose from, although I suppose   
   >>it depends in some way on your view of what the perfect society   
   >>is. The Raft is probably pretty nice if you're well armed and   
   >>have a big boat.   
   >>   
   >>I'd say the island of Stateless, but that's stepping into more   
   >>run-of-the-mill Sci-Fi. Maybe the Gernsback Continuum. Does it   
   >>count if it doesn't even exist in-story?   
   >   
   >   
   >.mpa waves, "Howdy" across the table at Gene.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >Okay.  I've been thinking about this now for far too long but the   
   >answer is now obvious:   
   >   
   >The final (engineer-inspired) world of PKD's "Eye in the Sky."   
   >   
   >   
   >.mpa   
   >   
      
   It's great to see ya, .mpa!  Let's ride around eating pizza again   
   one day, and reflect upon why "Pablo Picasso never got called an   
   a-$#!*&()!!"   
      
      
   My favorite cyberpunk Utopia is the one you take with you inside   
   your head, irrespective of meatspace coordinates.  I especially   
   enjoyed Abelard Lindsay's trajectory through the chapters of   
   "Schismatrix", as he experiments with exile, confidence schemes,   
   piracy, true love, family ties, alien RealPolitik, revenge, loss,   
   and transformation.   
      
   He's sorta who I want to be when I grow up.   
      
   Gene   
   /*   
      "It was a pornography of death.  A perversion of the human   
       genius in abject whoredom to racial suicide."   
                  -- Schismatrix   
   */   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)