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From: goun%15518.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
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Subject: Re: THE CODE OF THE LIFEMAKER by James P. Hogan
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 20:42:07 EDT
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From: goun%15518.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Ask me about my personal_name)

>      Hogan's set-up for creating a new race at the medieval stage is
> to describe how the robotics equivalent of genetics and evolution
> could come about unintentionally.  It's not the easiest way to
> create an alien race in a story, but it is the novel's finest hour.
> It is really intriguing reading and, frankly, the kind of idea I
> read science fiction for and all too rarely actually find.

Here, here!  This magnificent set-up is mostly in the book's short
prologue. It's one of the best bits of hard SF I've ever read.

My advice is to read the prologue while standing by the SF shelves at
your favorite bookseller.  Then buy something else.

					-- Roger Goun