Re: story idea

"Sean Cleary" <seanearlyaug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Story idea given away as:
> 1) not practiced enough as a writer to do it well
> 2) different writers will generate different stories from same idea.
>
> Idea:
>
> 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.
>
> Sean

Elements of these are found in Charles Stross' "Glasshouse" but far more 
entertaining use is made of them.

-- 
Mike Dworetsky

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