:: Sean Cleary <seanearlyaug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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:: Multiple transcendences, not all pervading. Example: the genome
:: people building supermen while the cyperpunks build their own
:: supermen while the rapture or similar removes some of the populace to
:: a Clarkian Childhood's end. Non of these touch everyone and the poor
:: of the world are missed by most, except that they may be touched by
:: the mercy of what ever god they can find.
: Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: Parts of that were the basis for Bruce Sterling's Mechanist/Shaper
: stories, though he didn't use quite the entire package you describe.
Xref DKM's near-future segment of continuing time, where there's
the PKF cyborgs, vs gengineered superhumans.
And several other instances of competing routes to superhumanity spring
to mind, but sadly, most are yasids. Ah well.
Xref also the running gag of Dr Venture vs Dr Orpheus, the sort of
"anything you can do I can do better". Orpheus is always trying
to get Venture to admit that the supernatural is something special;
"I can levitate!" "Rocket boots over there in the closet." "I can
raise people from the dead!" "Cloning chamber. Memory engram writer."
In one episode, they eventually decide to have a shrink-off, magic
vs shrink ray "smallest man is the biggest man", "you're on!", but
eventually have to call it a draw when neither one of them can get it
to work right...
Wayne Throop throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sheol.org/throopw
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