Celestial Weasel (celestialweasel) wrote,
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Paging Simon Tation, you are needed - that's Si Tation needed

From the latest Wikipedia edit to the entry on Cryptonomicon ' The sole detail keeping it in the science viction (sic) genre are the life-restoring cigars used to restore [[Enoch Root]] back to life.'
Is this one of those plausible but dull lies as per the Verity Stob fable 'the boy that told plausible but dull lies', or is there anything to it?
I mean obviously we can do without the genre wars, that this would surely be fantasy not SF, that there are other related fantastic elements and that you don't spell fiction with a v :-)
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