Re: Fame
- From: Daniel Silevitch <dmsilev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:09:33 GMT
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:52:39 GMT, Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A characteristic of society today is that famous people can't go out
to dinner without having other diners demanding that they sign
autographs now.
I'm not thinking of SF that examines this aspect of fame in a future
where fame and recognition is easy.
One of the characters in Bank's _Excession_ has that sort of fame on her
home planetoid. But she leaves home fairly early on in the book, so it's
more a bit of background then anything else.
-dms
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