From: Omixochitl2002@yahoo.com   
      
   3ngine <3ngine> wrote in   
   news:ah7qtvcoqah6oqreve8i4d0jjr1rshtjqv@4ax.com:   
      
   > It's sold as one edition here in Canada, too.  Thx for the info - I   
   > was going to skip it, but your desc. makes it look good :)   
      
   You're welcome.  :)  It is good, whether you stretch the definition of CP   
   enough to count it (like I do) or don't and consider it non-CP (_Ash_ is   
   also alternate history, if you dig that stuff too).   
      
   > On 15 Dec 2003 02:34:26 GMT, Omixochitl    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>3ngine <3ngine> wrote in   
   >>news:g76qtvk020525h8k6p50j2pmuqdfq0m5p8@4ax.com:   
   >>   
   >>> Without spoilers, can anybody tell me why this quadrology is   
   >>> considered to be CP?   
   >>   
   >>This is gonna be a spoiler for the first volume of the 4-volume US   
   >>edition but it happens so early that it's not a spoiler for the novel   
   >>as a whole (it's really 1 novel instead of a quadrology, and sold as a   
   >>1000+ page 1-volume edition in the UK)...   
   >>   
   >>OK, you know how legend has it that Joan of Arc had voices in her head   
   >>which were saints telling her how to do stuff?  Well, Ash has voices   
   >>in her head too but they're computers uploading battle tactics and so   
   >>on (and her head isn't even the only place direct brain-computer   
   >>hookups take place).  If you think CP is high-tech/low-life, the   
   >>low-life side is definitely here too.  If you think CP pays more   
   >>attention to money than SF and fantasy do, cash gets its proper credit   
   >>in the novel.  And so on.   
      
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