From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Talking SF, oh my;  was:  time travel
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:04:58 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Depends on what you're trying to do.  Milk has a sedative effect (on
most people) so you can read this stuff without throwing an innocent book
across the room.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:38 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Talking SF, oh my; was: time travel

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