Short Story 21: Of Relays and Roses

Marc Aramini · 23 Apr 2012, 01:45 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:45:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Short Story 21: Of Relays and Roses
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--- On Sun, 4/22/12, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:


From: Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 21: Of Relays and Roses
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Reading your summary, I was half expecting a riff on Asimov?s ?The Machine That Won The War?.? Could work as a story, too, IMO!

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- Gerry Quinn

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The old coin toss for the brunette or the blonde?? As long as you believe the computer selected her...?it?very well could be a riff on some of Asimov's or some other SF author's?computer stories?on some level, but I haven't read widely enough in 50's and 60's? SF computer stories to id any real influence.? 

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This story is so ... optimistic (I guess that's the word) it really feels like an outlier in Wolfe's fiction.? Nothing really goes wrong except the sales of the dating service ... and even then, it's positive PR.? The implication is that all the economic setbacks are very temporary.? Pretty outright mechanistically utopian from Gene.? The next story, Remembrance to Come, is a return to a more tense and somber tone.
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