Eclipse Corona

DRAFT

Shirley, John. Eclipse Corona. Book Three of The Eclipse Trilogy, vt A SONG CALLED YOUTH trilogy.[1]; New York: Warner, 1990. Revised and updated edition, Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2000.[2] Erlich listened to the 2014 unabridged audiobook from Audible.[3]

Note description of fascist "SA" police/troopers in opaque or reflective helmets offering insectoid anonymity, suggesting the frequent conflation of the robotic and insectoid, in what Thom Dunn and Rich Erlich have called "The Ovion/Cylon Alliance" (from the pilot of the original Battlestar Galactica series). More significantly, note the "Plateau" as version of cyberspace far more realistic — if less central and exciting — than, say Neuromancer, seen not within the virtual space but only as a means of communication and cybernetically-performed action at a distance, mediated by removable "implants" into the brain.[4], which allow a limited-mind meld and a kind of telepathy; cf. and contrast, e.g., Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace. The limited mind-meld is reported in some detail in sexual contexts. (CAUTION: There's nothing that would get your thrown off of, say, the S/M portions of X-Tube for violating community standards, but if you don't recognize the initialism "S/M," or can't imagine what would be on a website called X-Tube — note that you've been cautioned.)