Re: sci-fi

In a message dated 2000:09:01 7:18:27 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes:

>Jonathan Chang wrote:
>>
>> very bizarre sci-fi novel from the 1970's: (1975 to be exact)
>>  _Growing Up in Tier 3000_ by Felix C. Gotschalk ( t's out of print.)
>>  he uses futuristic slang that seems quite playful ...
>>  almost as impressive as Anthony Burgess' Nadsat in _Clockwork Orange_
>
>Examples?  And what's Tier 3000 mean?
    Tier 3000 is where the young Jonas lives.
    examples:
        "My guardians have me saddled with a goddam clod of a surmat - can
you imagine such grovel? I can't override her force-fields. Worse still,
she's shot full of punitive motive-tropisms. Shit, I say Good Morning Mam,
and she draws back her stunbolt latch -"
        "You shouldn't swear so much, Jonas."
        "Why the hell not?"
        "It's not adaptive." <p.7>

        "You've been digging the restricted pornies, haven't you?" <p.14>

        "What's the format at the gladpits?" <p.53>

        "I suggest you go on non-verbal, and hope for increments in your
linguistic engrams." <p.56>


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