[ExI] Elusive word...

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri Dec 12 08:17:59 UTC 2008


At 08:23 AM 12/12/2008 +0100, Serafino pointed to

><http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell?printable=true>

A typically fascinating Gladwellian mishmash of ideas about ideas. 
His synthesist smarties were beaten to it by Fred Pohl's story "In 
the Problem Pit" (1973) and my Pohl-derivative Grope Pit, in THE 
DREAMING [DRAGONS] (1980), thereby proving the point Gladders is making...

Damien Broderick 




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