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To: Rambi who wrote (11230)	6/26/1998 12:41:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I reread Brin's book last year when the movie trailers were a'flyin. In the book, the Holnists were not very well organized. They were an evolution of the extreme wing of the sort of white supremacist survivalist sorts who make people in Berkeley think Texas and Idaho are like that all over. (Nathan Holn was a fictitious sort of skinhead Hitler who wrote a tract combining Nietzsche with a good dose of Brian de Palma.) Anyway - if I remember right, it was a triple assault on civilization. Technology played a role, but it was neither good nor evil. 'Xept the nukes of course. 1) There was a nuclear war which bent but did not break America. 2) In the hardship that followed, there was a very bad epidemic which brought things to the breaking point. 3) The Holnists were the straw that broke the camel's back. They exploited an opportunity to defeat the last tatters of the National Guard, who of course were opposed to the Holnists' tribal/feudal "rule of the strong". Lots of neat details in the book (I loved the stockbroker) which got trampled by Costner's "vision". So I'm sure that Dave Brin was locked out of the creative process that brought us Desertworld.

To: Rambi who wrote (11230)	6/26/1998 2:12:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Someone sent me this in a long list of "facts". If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? >>One thousand I take issue with this, as the author must be from Chicago or something. "Awl raht ev'bawdeh, lit's cah'yawnt! Wuhhhnn... Teeewww... Thray... (there it is. But let's give the benefit of the doubt. Could be "threigh".) Fough... Faaahhv. Thurr 'd izz. Faaahv." Yawl kin gowawn 'nuther naahn hunnert 'n suhm, but Ah'll payss, thaink y.