One of the many fascinating aspects of Bruce Sterling's "Schismatrix (plus)" world is the depiction of entities that live for hundreds of years.
Some of them start out as people and remain essentially people, other people morph over time in to other kinds of things. They maintain an identity over periods of years or decades, but over the course of centuries evolve into things that have barely any resemblance to what they started out as. I don't remember the book well enough to give anything by way of concrete example; I just remember the weird sensations reading the book evoked. It all seemed so plausible, in some ways alluring, in many ways disturbing. I seem to recall one plot thread of a young couple madly in love who risk all to be with each other. Yay, happy ending! But wait. 250 years in to their marriage they don't even speak the same language. Or something like that. I should go read that book again. I've forgotten most of it, and it's only been a decade or two since I read it, not centuries! jrs On Mar 12, 2014, at 5:55 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > I, personally, can't imagine wanting to. I'd rather try a "may be could be" > scenario where I could have a quick, easy, painless death.
