On 30 Mar 2016, at 00:02, Kelly St. Clair wrote:
> On 3/29/2016 3:52 PM, Craig Berry wrote:
>> The value of hand-crafting (and other forms of direct human labor
>> involvement) in an (unevenly) post-scarcity economy is well portrayed in
>> Stephenson's _The Diamond Age_. The book annoys me because its plot
>> hinges on one stupendously implausible detail of the setting, but other
>> than that it's an amazing read. (And many of his books have that
>> property. He's basically the patron saint of fridge logic.)
>
> Tell me about it.  (No, really, I have a few candidates but I'm curious what your big one is.)
>
> He also likes to "stop" his novels, rather than ending them, in much the same way that a car is stopped by running into a concrete abutment at highway speeds.
>
> And despite all that, I'm still a fan.  Go fig.

That's approximately the feeling I had when I got to the last pages of Hamilton's "Naked God" *and* "Nano flower"!

Good story ideas that got painted into a corner.

Regards, Andy

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