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 [Cs.sfu.ca] Special Circumstances: Science Fiction Archives: However,rather than a dense collection of disparate ideas that is the usualstaple of hard-sf, here Greg Egan concentrates on the nub of an idea,one that he has explored in previous stories like "Luminous" and evenin a previous novel: "Diaspora". The existence of alternate realitiesthat are, by his construction, far more interesting than our own.

 [Ambidexterity.blogspot.com] Ambidextrous: The Belgians in the Congo, the French in Algeria, practiced torture and sexual humiliation on despised recalcitrant natives. Add to this generic corruption the mystifying, near-total unpreparedness of the American rulers of Iraq to deal with the complex realities of the country after its ''liberation.'' And add to that the overarching, distinctive doctrines of the Bush administration, namely that the United States has embarked on an endless war and that those detained in this war are, if the president so decides, ''unlawful combatants'' -- a policy enunciated by Donald Rumsfeld for Taliban and Qaeda prisoners as early as January 2002 -- and thus, as Rumsfeld said, ''technically'' they ''do not have any rights under the Geneva Convention,'' and you have a perfect recipe for the cruelties and crimes committed against the thousands incarcerated without charges or access to lawyers in American-run prisons that have been set up since the attacks of Sept.

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