Word: tor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tor Norretranders...
...define the value conferred by a bit of information such as a single letter? Are we aware that we constantly discard gargantuan volumes of information without recognizing their worth? In The User Illusion, a didactic tome employing examples from physics to poker, Danish author Tor Norretranders addresses these questions and explores their relationship to human consciousness within the context of a booming Information...
...Tendol, the transla- tor of the group--and, at 27, one of the oldernuns--she said she takes the changes at hernunnery in stride...
...idea that sci-fi is not so much a window to the stars as a mirror of our dark selves is supported by David Hartwell, an editor at Tor Books. "The alien represents metaphorically what's in the real world. The aliens in '50s films often represented communists--faceless invaders who were going to take over our country. The mysterious beings of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 represent our transcendent future. Independence Day sounds like the old form of sci-fi: the foreign invaders intend to wipe out our cultural heritage--ethnic cleansing. They don't want to come...
...Star Trek. "Movie tie-ins outsell regular science fiction by quite a bit," Brown says with a sniff. "We don't consider them real science fiction." A bit more acceptable, though still off the point, are traditional sword-and-sorcery fantasies like Robert Jordan's A Crown of Swords (Tor), which debuted at No. 2 on last week's New York Times list...