XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: larry@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2026-01-28 22:11, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   > On 29/01/26 13:51, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:33:50 +1100, Peter Moylan    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On a darker note, Greg Egan once wrote a story where a company   
   >>> found a way to encode the entire Koran in your junk DNA. Once   
   >>> enough people had taken that option, it turmed out to be the means   
   >>> to propagate a deadly epidemic.   
   >>>   
   >>> I should track down his more recent books. He is, in my opinion,   
   >>> the most original SF writer of our time.   
   >>   
   >> Any titles you particularly recommend?   
   >   
   > Two short story collections: Axiomatic and Luninous. If you like what   
   > you see, move on to the novel Luminous. Those, in any case, were the   
   > books I particularly liked.   
      
   I like Greg Egan. I hadn't read Axiomatic. Thanks for reminding me. I   
   found it and so far it looks like I'll apprciate it. Thanks!   
      
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   I sneezed a sneeze into the air.   
   It fell to earth, I know not where,   
   But hard and cold were the looks of those.   
   In whose vicinity I snoze.   
      
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