Peer Pressure

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Comments

[mejoff]

Touch of Accelerando at the start there as well?

Very nicely done, by the way.

[pozorvlak]

Yes, I loved Accelerando's Matrioshka brain civilisations.

And thank you!

[pozorvlak]

The very beginning also owes a lot to Carl Sagan's Contact, H. Beam Piper's Omnilingual, Sam Hughes' On Digital Extremities, and RFC 2821.

[andrewducker]

I was also reminded of the Galactic Usenet in Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep".

[pozorvlak]

Of Vinge's work, I've only read Rainbows End, but I definitely want to read A Fire Upon The Deep.

[andrewducker]

Rainbows End is on my list. I must get around to it.

[pozorvlak]

It flags a bit in the middle, but the setup's great and the ending is strong.