Re: When World's Collide

Damn! I'm digging it. Now how the hell are we gonna pick just one? And, still more to go?

Okay--anyway--I have to say this thing right now. #3? Yeah. Like, if somebody told me "Oh, I casually want to write a sentence or two that will both evoke Borges, the most brilliant writer that ever existed, and Rush, the most rockin' Canadian power trio that ever existed." I would have told them to get lost, but you, my friend, have done it. I applaud you.

I applaud all of these ideas, and I want to take a whack at your bonus idea, because it reminds me that I really want to read the new Ray Kurzweil book.

In a World where nanobots cleanse the blood of disease, and people live indefinite lives, a man waiting for the subway in New York explodes, contaminating a large crowd with an aggressive virus--a mechanical virus of microscopic robots. We might stand a chance to fight them, if only they weren't completely sentient, smarter than us, and designed by the only man in the world who we might have trusted to stop them.

Now--everybody sing along with me from the book of Rush, chapter 2112:
We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx.
And our great computers fill the hallowed halls...