Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 00:59:10 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: With apologies to Monty Python
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Samuel Lubell wrote:

> At 12:32 AM 5/7/02 -0400, Keith wrote:
> >   'Ello, WSFA List!  Heinlein's _I Robot_ is my favorite novel!
> >   Spam isn't all that bad!  The South should have won the Civil War!
> >   Capclave has been can...(owner hits the terminal)
>
> Hmmm, an interesting idea.  What if Heinlein wrote _I Robot_?  Well first,
> it would have turned out to be Lazarus Long and have sex with its creator.
>
> And what Heinlein novel would have been written by Asimov in cosmic
> repayment?  Any of Heinlein's juvies could have been Paul French novels.
> Lucky Star and the Rolling Stones?  _Lucky Star meets Podakayne of Mars_?

I can't agree.  Asimov could least of all have ever written one of Heinlein's
juveniles.  He lacked the style.

--Ted White