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} 'A Canticle for Liebowitz' rules, but avoid the second part "Saint
} Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman" like the plague, it is so awful
} your love of the first text will be tainted even though poor old dead
} Walter Miller isn't to blame...
}
} But now to answer your question. And so that others may benefit the
} Oracle now Presents:
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} (1) Did you already read both A Canticle for Liebowitz
} and Shockwave Rider?
}
} a. Yes -- Then read Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar"
} and "The Sheep Look Up".
}
} b. No --- Then read "A Canticle for Liebowitz" and "Stand on Zanzibar"
} which is far better than "Shockwave Rider", "The Sheep Look Up" is
} almost too topical with the way it reflects today's news so unless
} you like being scared avoid it, too close to the bone it is...
}
} c. You know, I read them, but they didn't really work for me --
} Go to step (2)
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} (2) How do your friends describe you behind your back?
}
} a. Paranoid, all those drugs -- Read all of Philip K. Dick. If you're
} in a hurry start with "Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said" and then
} read "Radio Free Albemuth". If you've got more time still start with
} "Tears", but save "Radio Free" for last as it sums everything up.
}
} b. A know it all -- Read Issac Asimov, alternating his non-fiction
} with fiction. Such as "I, Robot" then his bible commentaries, then
} "Caves of Steel, then "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated
} Thiotimoline" and so on for all 500 plus texts the mega-brain wrote.
}
} c. How in the world would I know what they say about me behind my back?
} -- Go to step (3)
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} (3) Is technology our friend or is it trying to kill us?
}
} a. Our friend -- Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" then "Snow Crash",
} or the other way around, it doesn't matter because by the time you're
} done your computer will have captured your brain. Then we'll really
} know who is who's friend.
}
} b. It's trying to kill us -- William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition"
} then his "Spook Country". You can read his "Neuromancer" any old
} time, the other two in that order will help keep you alive by showing
} you technology doesn't kill people, it's people with technology that
} do that. Though those subliminal messages may have something to do
} with it... hard to say.
}
} c. Wait, technology isn't 'trying' to do anything, it's not alive dude,
} well, not yet at least -- Go to (4)
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} (4) Where are you right now?
}
} a. I...I'm not sure, now that you mention it -- read "Ghostwritten"
} by David Mitchell
}
} b. Me? Is that who I am? -- Read "The Box Man" by Kobo Abe
}
} c. I'm more worried about why any of us are here, in the existence
} sense of the word, but I suspect it really doesn't matter -- Read
} "Rama" by Arthur Clarke
}
} d. Hey, why isn't everything all kind of purplish? And hey, where's
} my hydrogen car?! And what? Nixon isn't president? Something's wrong
} here -- "Watchmen" by Alan Moore, read it twice.
}
} e. I'm at work -- read "1984" by George Orwell double plus good,
} keeping working citizen
}
} f. Duh, I'm sitting in front of my computer -- read "Dune" by Frank
} Herbert, it's dreadfully boring too.
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} You owe the Oracle nothing supplicant, go on now, you got some reading
} to do. Enjoy.
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