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  • The Die, Ring of Fire and Bellwhether

    From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 15 13:47:15 2024
    Hi Readers and Typers
    All three of these books were obtained at the SFPL-Main.

    "The Die" by Jude Berman is a story about a group of rather

    naive IP workers who live communally. They are forced out of HSys,

    the IT company where they work by a group of rivals. They do

    not understand why the Ks group has done this and investigate

    to find that in the future in which they live a Russian group is

    using Smart Light in an app to put images of the Dictator of the

    USA which is split up into West Coast and North-Eastern republics

    while the Mid-West is under the thumb of the epynomous dictator

    referred to as the "Dick". Some of them escaped from the USA

    because the Dick threatened their lives and murdered their relatives.

    There is a relentless shift in viewpoints between members of the

    but we have a better happy ending than many other stories.

    Berman holds a recent copyright but the book is

    published by Spark Press (www.gosparkpress.com)

    at $17.95 in the USA.

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    "Ring of Fire"is an anthology of stories set mostly in

    the town of Grantville which was dumped into 1632, edited by

    the inventor of the concept, the late Eric Flint. It

    is full of great stories by great authors who provided

    these shorter stories to link to forthcoming books.

    It includes stories by Weber, Lackey and a host of

    other authors who seem to be competent in the genre.

    This is a BAEN Book from 2004 and I felt an appreciation

    of it was worth writing as I enjoyed re-reading it.

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    "Bellwhether" by Connie Willis published by Bantam Spectra

    in 1996 at $7.99 is the story of young scientist researching

    fads. "Whatever caused the bob cuts of the 1920s?" is her

    current line of research. She works in a company perhaps

    over-managed and provided with chaos-inflicting personnel.

    A side event is meeting a man studing information diffusion

    among mammals. He wants macques to study but settles for

    sheep and they finally figure out that the bellwhether is

    key to answer some questions. In the mean time they

    wrestle with getting around Flip, the chaotic mail person

    for the company.

    This was fun.

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