On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:09:16PM -0700, Christopher Allen wrote: > A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge > > for the catagory: Novel 2000 Hugo Award > > http://wsfs.org/hy.html#00 > > This was just posted on the Hugo site today. This is the best > wearables-centric sci-fi book I have found and every person I have > recommended it to has told me it is the best sci-fi book he has read. I'll add that I had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Vinge (that's pronounced vin-gee) at Worldcon the day before the Hugos were announced. He says that he'll be writing shorter works in future - short stories and novels of 100K words, rather than the 260K that Deepness rolled in at. He was impressed at the touch-typing ability of the woman next to me - she was using a fold-up keyboard and a Palm Vx - and noted that a wearable could be about the same volume and have an even faster speed of focus acquisition. -dsr- -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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