From: alias.remove@netserver.org   
      
   On 2003-12-08, ded-T  wrote:   
      
   >> Can anybody come up with any influential   
   >>books/short stories to the genre either before 1980 or after '92?   
      
      
   > Most of Phillip Dick's odd stuff... but I'm not really into dick (as   
   > others are)[i will keep a straight face... i will keep a straight   
   > face... i will keep a straight face...].   
   >   
      
   I hear the Monkey *loves* Dick.  I'm not a big fan myself.. but i'll try   
   anything once.   
      
   innuendo aside: A Scanner Darkly, one of my favorites.   
      
   >   
   > Perdido Street Station -- 2000   
   > China Mieville   
   > More MagePunk this time strongly influenced by Chaos Magick and the   
   > Diabolical side of Aleister Crowley's Thelema   
      
   i keep thinking there must be something wrong with me for not having   
   read this one.. i've tried.. i have a copy in my briefcase.. its sitting   
   right here.. i have no pressing "work" to do here at "work" so theres no   
   reason i couldn't crack it open.. yet i don't .. and haven't for like 2   
   months now.   
      
   dunno.. i just can't get into it.  i manage 2 pages and put it away.   
      
   ..   
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   "dis-topian, dat-topian, long as it ain't neutopian"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)