Re: Censorship: Linus Torvalds Comes Out Blatant Censor's Advocate, Anti Privacy/Anonymity

On April 8, 2019 7:19:12 PM UTC, Steve Kinney wrote:

On 4/7/19 4:36 PM, Punk wrote:

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On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 00:04:22 -0400 Steve Kinney wrote:

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A cursory search did not turn up a link to the text; my copy arrived in hard cover via the Science Fiction Book Club. Interlibrary loan if all else fails...

try

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/7780471/Brunner__John

Heh. Should have checked there first.

:o)

I still have a (very) badly worn paperwork that I picked up as a kid in the 90s at a used book store ;) Nick Haflinger was (to my mind) never quite as "cool" as Case or Bobby Quine, but it's a damn good book, way ahead of it's time... it predates the Gibson stuff by nearly a decade. I've been re-reading Borges recently. His ruminations on infinity are an interesting prelude to cyberpunk and modern sci-fi in general. Gibson rather shamelessly stole "the aleph" (name and all!) from Borges' short story written in the 30s (or 40s?) for Mona Lisa Overdrive :)