Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:37:44 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Talking SF, oh my; was: time travel Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Lee Strong fired off this: > Ah, that explains these strange markings...! > Actually, I am generally familiar with the Shaver Mystery and the >deros, which I first encountered in H. Beam Piper's _The Cosmic >Computer_/_Junkyard Planet_, a book that changed my life. The deroes = also >show up in Dungeons & Dragons, which closes the loop on another thread in >this chat. One of my hobbies is reading "borderline" stuff such as = Shaver, >von Daniken, Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle, the Philadelphia Experiment, >time travel, Spear's New Motor, and similar stuff. This, in turn, bleeds >into theosophy, Urantia, Black Muslim theology and the like. Interesting >stuff provided you drink lots of milk first. Think I'd go with the Guinness myself, rather than the milk . . . mjw