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"I share a conviction with Steven Shaviro [...] that we live in a science fictional world. Not the one everyone expected, of course — no jetpacks. But ... challenging science fiction, is never ab

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"...a virtual world that will collapse onto the real world and subtly change our perception of it. Similar to a much more primitive version of the stuff Karl Schroeder was writing about in Lady o

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