From: "Ted White" <twhite8@cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Constructing Realsitic Solar Systems
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:09:38 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist@KeithLynch.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:14 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Constructing Realsitic Solar Systems

[...]
>
> Who needs fantasy?  I prefer science fiction -- the literature of
> things which could actually happen.  There's enormous potential in the
> known laws of physics, and in plausible extensions to them.  We don't
> need to go beyond them for good stories any more than we need more
> than 88 notes on a piano, more than 26 letters in our alphabet, or
> more than 52 cards in a deck.

Ah, but there's two jokers in most "52-card" decks, making them *54*-card
decks.   You gotta look out for those jokers!

--Ted White