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Title:Arcana Caelestia
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Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
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1073.0. "Query about Rodger McBride" by TNPUBS::WIX () Mon Jun 15 1992 19:35

A friend asked me whether Rodger McBride had written a sequel to 
_Ring of Charon_. I had no answer but thought I might ask here. So did he and
if so what was the title?

Thanks in advance,

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1073.1TECRUS::REDFORDIf this's the future I want vanillaTue Jun 16 1992 02:1513
    I haven't seen one, although "The Ring of Charon" leaves it wide
    open.  That's no spoiler; the subtitle of the novel is "First
    Book of the Hunted Earth".  RoC came out in 1990, and I've seen
    at least one other book by him since, "The Modular Man".  
    RoC was pretty good, once you got past the cheesecake Boris cover.
    It had an interesting alternate form of intelligence -
    pattern-matching on images.  Campbell once asked his writers to
    give him aliens who thought differently than people, and better
    than people.  Allen came up with one approach here.
    
    /jlr
    
    PS His name is Roger MacBride Allen, not Roger McBride.
1073.2Mc/MacTRCOA::KGORDONwhat's your reality?Tue Jun 16 1992 20:097
    Thanks for the PS in the last note - he constantly gets his name
    misspelled which doesn't impress him at all!  At the last Ad Astra
    they listed him under M and used the Mc instead of Mac...he laughed but
    wasn't really amused
    
    Kristy   8>)
    
1073.3PATE::MACNEALruck `n' rollWed Jun 17 1992 15:255