January '10 Reading Poll

[Virgil]

So did Androids win? Should I start looking for it?

[Jozanny]

I have only only just started reading, and sort of skimmed over Delaney's introduction because I am already familiar, to a degree, with Dick's voice, and I know already that *fans* are confused that Blade Runner is rather romantically sympathetic to artificial intelligence.

If I can gas a bit about BR, I like the movie. Tis a flawed thing but this is the only film that ever made me sympathetic to Harrison Ford, and it has a touch of prosaic power.

I don't think the argument between naturally created species and manufactured species can necessarily win one side against the other, because at the micro-biotic level life is seemingly just as manufactured as plastic, but I will suspend judgment and see what Dick pulls out of the hat--keeping in mind that he did not have the knowledge of the genome project.

Any library should have it Virgil, but I purchased the file...

When I am dirt poor again things will get worse for me, as I have gotten used to doing as I wish, within the parameters of disability paradigms, which suggests I should get working . I did sift last night, but haven't pitched since mid-December (sigh).

[Virgil]

I found it at the library today! As soon as I finish with The Turn of the Screw, I'll start Androids.