| Title: | Arcana Caelestia |
| Notice: | Directory listings are in topic 2 |
| Moderator: | NETRIX::thomas |
| Created: | Thu Dec 08 1983 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1300 |
| Total number of notes: | 18728 |
Anyone read "Listening to Brahms" in the September OMNI?
It's GREAT! Kinda long, but with a wonderful ending.
Quick summary, (no spoilers)
Group of humans are awaken from their hibernation in an orbiting
space station by Kondrains (sp?) who are surprisingly benevolent
reptile like creatures. Humans are told their world is destroyed
and even shown movies and tv transmissions picked up over the years
by these people.
The Kondrains have and obsession with Earth culture and ways and
have been picking up TV and radio transmissions for years.
[I love this idea! It could be hapening right now!]
The humans are brought back to the Kondra's planet and are treated
extremely well, and are studied, questioned, etc. The expected lonliness,
desolation and sorrow confronts the last survivors of Earth, some
commit suicide, others take up playing music.
The ending is wonderful!
Bob
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| 388.1 | me too | CACHE::MARSHALL | beware the fractal dragon | Wed Sep 24 1986 18:40 | 8 |
I liked it too, especially the effect of Earth culture on the Kondrans.
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| 388.2 | SYNTAX ERROR, SYNTAX ERROR! | EDEN::KLAES | I enjoy working with people. | Mon Sep 29 1986 18:42 | 19 |
There was a good SF story in OMNI a few months ago (July?) that
I feel we at DEC can relate to:
It involved an astronaut/soldier stationed on an asteroid being
attacked by a warship. His only protection (besides a laser pistol
and some large boulders) was his asteroid's base's main computer,
which only responded to commands worded in the proper context.
So when he was being attacked and asked the computer to fire the
base's laser cannons, he had to guess his way through a dozen replies
of "SYNTAX ERROR."
With the possible exception of an attacking warship, doesn't
that sound familiar? :^)
BTW, he was the only survivor of the base, and the main computer's
command words were known only to the base commanders - which he
wasn't one.
Larry
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