Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:45:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The World Turned Upside Down - and changes
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I just accept the fact that some of the assumptions
about technology and science made in older SF have
turned out to have been wrong.  As long as it's
well-written I don't care.   for instance, Arthur C.
Clarke's Islands in the Sky is a fun adventure story
that makes completely wrong assumptions about the
effects of prolonged weightlessness, our ability to
colonize Venus, and advances in space travel and
exploration.  So what.  It's still a good read.

--Cathy

--- Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org> wrote:

> Sunday, September 12, 2004, 10:51:25 PM, you wrote:
>
> >> I read these stories as alternate history.
>
> > Even that might not be enough to avoid a choking
> fit when the Galactic
> > Patrol's chief librarian finds all the brilliant
> scientists in
> > Civilization by running their Hollerith cards
> through a sorter to provide
> > Kimball Kinnison with the list of people qualified
> to work on the
> > negasphere.
>
> Hmm... fantasy, then?
>
> --
> Jim Kling
> science writer
> Rockville, MD
> http://nasw.org/users/jkling
>

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