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gopher_spacetoday at 4:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

Delphi markets feature prominently in Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. It's an important book, and Brunner is amazing if you've never read him before.

He's actually one of my metrics for judging used book stores. Sci-fi has Brunner, politics has Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, nonfiction has someone's old annotated copy of G.E.B.


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nvadertoday at 9:46 PM

Look everyone, this person believes talking Tortoises are real!

In all seriousness, I love G.E.B. how do you use it to judge a given used book store?

throw4847285today at 5:35 PM

I'll admit, I bought Stand on Zanzibar based on a recommendation from my Dad, but I only got a few pages in before getting distracted by something else. I should give Brunner another shot.

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