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Perhaps their programming set up a metaprogram in our computer that interfaced their data wave fronts directly with our memory banks.
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Songs From The Stars, by Norman Spinrad
You just don’t hear “memory banks” enough anymore these days.
I guess I have to admit that when I said before in that other post that I haven’t been reading anything, that was kind of a fib. This book has been in my bag for a while now, so I have something to do while Justin is in karate. There is not an inside waiting area, so the parents just have to hang out in their cars in the parking lot. Despite having seventeen gadgets specifically designed to entertain me while sitting and waiting in the car, reading is still my favorite. I enjoyed dragging this book out over the space of months, I always looked forward to getting to spend an hour with Clear Blue Lou and Sunshine Sue, I’m kind of sad it’s over really. But I will be looking out for more Norman Spinrad. Aparently according to the internet, The Demolished Man is some kind of classic, so I’m sure that’ll be fun. I’d rather be hanging out in La Mirage though probably.
2 Responses to “Perhaps their programming set up a metaprogram in our computer that interfaced their data wave fronts directly with our memory banks.”
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The Demolished Man is by Alfred Bester, but if you like Spinrad I think you’d like it too, along with Bester’s other major novel The Stars My Destination.
Spinrad does have lots of other good novels, notably A World Between, and in a different mood the satires The Iron Dream and Bug Jack Barron.
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charity April 27th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Hi John! Thanks for the comment and author confusion clarification, it’s always nice to hear from humans out here in the land of spam bots!
I’m reading A World Between right now, it’s pretty great. Spinrad sure can make a world I want to go to! Thanks for the recommendations, I am for sure going to read all those books.
