[MD] President Palin?

[Krimel]

[John to Marsha]
Did you ever read M. Scott Card, Ender's Game?  I thought that the Locke and
Demosthenes dialogues were finer examples of Platonic Avatarism than W.
Gibson's cyberpunk world.

[Krimel]
Orson Scott Card use of Locke and Demosthenes is rather like what we do here
and what Vernor Vinge did in "True Names". Which is fine. I also notice that
in the Ender Saga artificial intelligence, Ender's companion Jane emerges as
intelligent from the growth of connections made possible by a galactic
network of computers. Gibson's AI was developed as a tool for the fabulously
wealthy. Gibson's AI goes crazy and fragments into multiple personalities.
Card's Jane seem perfectly sane but has to hide her very existence from
everyone but Ender.

[John]
Not that I didn't love William Gibson.  What an exquisite taste in words
that man has!

[Krimel]
I have found some of his work disappointing. I didn't care much for Spook
Country and some of the Bridge stories but you are dead on when it comes to
his writing. He really pisses me off though because he only put out a book
every few years. I have ended up with most of his works in hardback because
I can't wait for the paperback.

As far as Card is concerned I have not really cared for his non-Ender
stories.