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What shall we read in July for August 2nd's chat?

The Girl Who Was Plugged In/Screwtop

7 votes, 100.0%

Accelerando

0 votes, 0.0%

Goodbye for Now

0 votes, 0.0%

Fahrenheit 451

0 votes, 0.0%

Cloud Atlas

0 votes, 0.0%

White Noise

0 votes, 0.0%

7 total votes

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message 1: by Ping (last edited Jun 07, 2014 05:30PM) (new)

Jun 07, 2014 05:30PM

The Girl Who Was Plugged In/Screwtop - intriguing: back-to-back/front double novel publication.

Wondering: if this is voted final, do we read/discuss just one or both novels together?

If just one, which?
ie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl... (which won the 1974 Hugo Award for Best Novella) / https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
less info on Screwtop.

A more recent book, so gotta find/get it offline.

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message 2: by Stephane (last edited Jun 07, 2014 11:04PM) (new)

Jun 07, 2014 10:57PM

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I was particularly interested in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (www.f.waseda.jp/sidoli/Tiptree_Girl_P...). I let some infos on the bookshelf : This story was used to be experimented as a "sensory fiction" via a wearable device http://bit.ly/1drchAU. I'm curious to know why. The story comes with some themes like feminist science fiction, role of celebrities & media

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