[HN Gopher] Michael Frayn at 90: a miscellany of the satirical c...
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       Michael Frayn at 90: a miscellany of the satirical columnist's
       finest moments
        
       Author : beardyw
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2023-09-08 07:55 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | robjwells wrote:
       | Sadly Frayn will always be tarred in my eyes having been
       | subjected to Spies in GCSE(? A-level? It all blurs together)
       | English.
        
         | okeuro49 wrote:
         | I was thinking about making the same comment.
         | 
         | It's such an awful book.
        
         | gilleain wrote:
         | Oh, well he wrote a lot of other stuff! My favorite would be
         | 'The Tin Men' set in a research institute.
         | 
         | It has ethical robots, and universal headline language (UHL)
         | among other ideas.
        
       | nickcw wrote:
       | I only read one of his books, a SciFi novella called "A Very
       | Private Life" which I picked up in a second hand book sale on a
       | whim.
       | 
       | I really enjoyed it. SciFi come with the thinking of the time it
       | was written (1968) and some of that is evident, but the idea of a
       | society ("the insiders") which never meet each other in the flesh
       | and only interact via screens seems quite prophetic.
       | 
       | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25958761-a-very-private-...
        
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