Babylon Sisters

Dave Monroe monrovius at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 2 15:09:24 CST 2003


Just reading, by former P-Lister ...

di Filippo, Paul.  Babylon Sisters and Other
   Posthumans.  Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2002.

http://www.primebooks.net/books/book_detail.asp?isbn=1-894815-81-5

"Any Major Dude" (first appeared in New Worlds, 1991)
features a character named Narciso and a
nanotechnologically enhanced, negentropic Africa
rechristened Maxwell's Land (pp. 117-39); "The Scab's
Progress," co-written with Bruce Sterling (first
appeared on Sci Fiction, 2001 ...

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/sterling/

... see hyperlink above) makes reference to "the taut
plastic wrapper of a Pynchonian British toffee" (p.
296 in BS&OP).  Also: "any sufficiently advanced
garbage is indistinguihable from magic" (p. 307) ...

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