[geeks] Really big bathtub toy

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Sun Feb 1 12:22:13 CST 2004


On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:41:23PM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:06:45AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > In one of William Gibson's books, there was a floating nation
> > surrounding an old carrier I believe.
> 
> Are you sure you don't mean Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash), or perhaps
> something from Bruce Sterling?

Right, doesn't Islands in the Net also feature a carrier-homed nation?


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