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" The crazy years / "
Spider Robinson.
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1047412
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b801782
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Robinson, Spider.
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The crazy years /\ Spider Robinson.
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Dallas, Tex. :: BenBella Books ;[Chicago] :: Distributed by Independent Publishers Group,, ©2004.
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1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
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1932100350
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: 1935251546
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: 9781932100358
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1932100350
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Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents -- Introduction -- A Mission Statement -- Section 1: Information Overload -- Braindrain Wave -- Says Who? -- The Mahooha Filter -- A Tale of Two Charlies -- And Now the News -- Section 2: Substance Abuse -- Bean Counting -- Reflections of a Recovering Nicotinic -- Mugging the Poor for Their Own Good -- Big Nanny's New Clothes -- Terminal Improvement -- Where There's No Smoke -- Imagination Has its Downside -- Science in Fishnet Stockings -- Buzzed High Zonked Stoned Wasted -- Flinging Phlegm at the Flim Flam in Flin Flon -- Section 3: O Canada -- Citizen Keen -- Thanks for All the Fish -- Phone-y Manners -- Night of the Impolite Canadian -- Section 4: Pull Up a Soapbox -- Hail on the Chief -- There are no good bushwhackers -- The Opposite of a Great Lie -- Dun Deal -- Free Speech is Worth Paying For -- I want a really interactive newspaper -- Lead Us Not Into Temptation -- The Process -- Qui Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? -- Declarative Sentients -- Section 5: Present Imperative: Social Mahooha -- Burning the Sambuca -- The Fall-Guy Shortage -- Seduction of the Innocent -- You Never Forget the First Time -- What is it With Bankers? -- "More than enough is-a too much " -- Please Don't Talk About Him 'Til He's Gone -- A God Too Old to Change or, Pope Sinks Hope -- You Just Can't Kill for Jesus/Allah/Jaweh/Rama/Elvis -- Biting The Hand That Leads Us -- Whatever -- Section 6: [Environment] -- Biting the Hand That Feeds and Clothes and Houses and Heals and Educates and -- Entertains and -- Some Cats Know -- Voluntary Poverty Threatens Real Poor People -- Ain't That a Shame -- Section 7: [Terrorism/War] -- Mass Destruction Isn't Rocket Science -- What Does it Mean to be Human? -- The Only Thing We Have to Fear -- Strapped for Take-Off -- The Beam up Mine Own -- Section 8: Technology, Good and Bad -- "His bow-tie is really a camera " or, The Future is not Listening -- Sting of the Cyber Trifles or, How I Spent my Winter Worktime -- Compared To What? (retitle? Repeat title, diff. subject) -- Untitled (needs a title) -- Off the Road -- Got to Admit it's Gotten Better -- Section 9: [Computers/Software] -- Be Less Than You Can Be or, The Most Important Component is the Off Switch -- Give it Another Kick, David- -- Cyberspace Cadets -- About As Reliable As a Computer -- Nuking Themselves in the Foot or, Lookout, Tech's Press! -- Devil's Advocate, or Lay off the Rich Kid! -- "Fool, fool, back to the beginning in the rule-" -- Character Defects -- Section 10: Space -- Headline -- The Day it Hailed Columbia -- The Virgin Next Door is Wet -- Starsong on my Desktop -- If You Can Fry an Egg in Space, Hilton Wants to Talk to You -- Senator Socksdryer and the Two Million Dollar Boondoggle -- Section 11: [Future] -- 2001, by God! or, Looking Back at the Future -- The Future Ain't What it Used to Be -- Futures We Never Dreamed -- Evil's Rootkiller or, Brother Can You Spare a Paradigm? -- Plus ca Change -- Section 12: Intellectual Property -- St. George, We Need You Now! -- They Don't Make Unreality Like They Used To -- Recutting the Crown Jewels -- The Anarchists Who Couldn't Shoot Straight or, Please Don't Shoot the Guitar -- Player -- If You Take It We Can't Leave It -- Section 13: Silver Lining -- Valmiki's Third Reality -- Precious are the Eggs of the Sturgeon -- Thanks for the Music -- Whatever -- Why Pamela Wallin is Dangerous -- Appendix [Bells and Whistles] -- Bye-Bye, Sci-fi -- Robot-Killer -- What's All This Brouhaha, Ha ha -- The Yoomins of Sol III -- Yoomins Revisited.
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A collection of witty, irreverent essays on subjects running the gamut from the space program to airport bans on smoking are included in this anthology. Written by Spider Robinson, The Crazy Years takes its name from Robert A. Heinlein's designation of the last years of the 20th century and contains essays from Robinson's tenure as op-ed columnist for The Globe and Mail and from Galaxy Online. Environmentalists that place the survival of earth before the survival of humanity, the idiocy of computer designs, and the downsides of the Internet are among the subjects.
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Robinson, Spider.
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Civilization.
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Essays.
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Civilization.
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Essays.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS-- Essays.
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814/.54
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PS3568.O3156C73 2004eb
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