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  • Simulacron-3 By Daniel F. Galouye

    From Scott Dorsey@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 18 21:51:14 2025
    Somebody mentioned this book here about a world in which advertising
    companies controlled the country, and I thought it sounded like the
    same basic society as that of Fred Pohl's _Tunnel Under the World_.

    It's not exactly but it has a lot of things in common and I recommend
    reading both of them for comparison purposes. In both cases, the
    reality turns out not to be what the reader expected but you don't find
    out until the end.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@3:633/10 to All on Wed Nov 19 19:45:05 2025
    On 2025-11-19, Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

    It's not exactly but it has a lot of things in common and I recommend
    reading both of them for comparison purposes. In both cases, the
    reality turns out not to be what the reader expected but you don't find
    out until the end.

    _Simulacron-3_ was adapted as the German TV miniseries _Welt am Draht_
    (World on a Wire, 1973) and the movie _The Thirteenth Floor_ (1999).

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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