From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fwd: Writer with a question . . . Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:53:50 -0500 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at keithlynch.net> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:22 AM Subject: [WSFA] Fwd: Writer with a question . . . > Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 23:17:27 -0500 > Subject: [WSFA] Writer with a question . . . > From: Ronald Jones <rejones at fcc.net> > To: <wsfa at keithlynch.net> > > I am planning to write a sci-fi story involving cloning. I've been > collecting material to read and I was wondering if members at WSFA have any > suggestions on what articles or books to use in this project -- preferably > ones written for a layman. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Go with the simplist and least technical material. There is no point in loading your story with techno-facts, the broad details of which are already common public knowledge. SF (not "sci-fi") stories use present science only as a jumping-off point. --Ted White