1/ Read three books during my flights to and from the recent business trip to Cheyenne, WY. - Termination Shock by N Stephenson - Westside by W.M. Akers - Kiteworld by Keith Roberts
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I have always considered Douglas Adams to be an absolute master of digression.
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Hmm, true, but for a distinctly different intent. What different purposes can a digression serve? Humour. Worldbuilding (I presume; I've yet to summon the fortitude to crack open a Stephenson). Are there more?
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excellent answer, thank you. i think he is effing around and setting up a series. not saying this is exculpatory but it felt like he left a lot of stuff hanging deliberately to hook ppl into reading the next book. which, you know, i probably will…
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Betcha it's not a series ; this is the same thing he did in Seveneves
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