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<A title=jerry_friedman@yahoo.com href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com">Jerry
Friedman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=urth@lists.urth.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 04, 2011 9:54
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: (urth) Round 2 of NPR top
100 sci-fi books of all time</DIV>
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liked<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> </SPAN></B>/Hyperion/, but was
disappointed by the sequel. I seem to recall that the mysteries were
better than the explanations, which I seem to recall contained a lot of
quantum double-talk.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I liked the sequel - I thought it explained things
quite well. The story was quite Wolfean, in fact, and I found
the ideas reasonably plausible by SF standards. The idea is
that multiple universes exist, but at the end of time there is contention
for a preferred final state of the universal wave function, and the Techno
Core is arrayed against the humans in vying to achieve their preferred
state. The Shrike is an avatar sent into the past by the Techno Core in
pursuit of Jesus Christ, the human avatar of Empathy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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