Betty said -
Minor nitpick: that's Vernor Vinge.
Just a typo. The strange thing is I never noticed it at all, and I must have re-read that email half a dozen times before I sent it, looking for them (I know what I'm like).
Good book, though I liked _A Fire Upon the Deep_ better.
Yes. I was talking to Calle about it at 'Redemption'. If anyone has got this book to hand, I'd be interested in reading the description of the little lonely world on the edge of the galaxy where the human scientists have a base - right at the start - because it reminds me of star one.
The only problem I can see is that, for someone coming from a background where that's how things are done, programming something totally alien, like Zen, would seem next to impossible.
Yeah, I can't think of a solution to that
Alison
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