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POSTED BY: Redag
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 5, 2002 22:42
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After I read the script pages, which I loved, I was thinking about that 'book' thing they were reading from. It seemed familiar somehow and then it hit me. Wasn't there something similar in the book Dune? Anyone?
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I can't remember Dune too clearly - seems like it had snippets from all kinds of fictional sources, such as the Orange Bible or whatever, but the Firefly script calls it the Universal Encyclopedia and Isaac Asimov's Foundation stories, from the 40s on, had an Encyclopedia Galactica. There are lots of similar things, I'm sure, but that's the "reference work of the future" that sticks out in my mind. Or do you mean the mechanical device seems familiar? Various sorts of "eBook readers" have been all over SF forever - and now they're real. 
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Thanks for the quick reply. Yeah, I meant the reader. Interesting, I don't remember seeing anything like that before. Cool.
On the other note, the Encyclopedia thing reminded me of the Time Machine movie that just came out. I don't know if its in the book though, cause I still haven't been able to bring myself to read it. That book is just so...
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