From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Knock Knock. Who's there? Hugo....
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 12:40:19 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Mike,

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Hugo.
Hugo who?
Hugo write that bit up for me, OK? Feel free to add comments about sites
with Hugo info, like Emerald City, NESFA, and Locus Online.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 4:50 PM
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Maltese Falcon, was Who said: SF is fantasy with nuts andbolts painted on?

> twhite8 at cox.net 4/1/2005 6:49:32 PM >>>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <MarkLFischer at aol.com>
>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 3:48 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Who said: SF is fantasy with nuts and bolts
>painted on?
>
>> In a message dated 4/1/2005 2:44:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> omni at omniphile.com writes:
>>
>> >Small quibble...teleportation does exist.  It's been done in the
>lab.
>Only
>> >useful so far if you want to ship quantum particles  though.
>>
>> That's a reach.  One cannot step into a booth and be whisked  off
>to
>another
>> place, and it's highly unlikely that we will be able to do so
anytime
>soon.
>> Teleportation is a McGuffin, just like the Fairy Godmother's  magic

>wand.
>
>No, no.  Not a McGuffin.  The actual Maltese Falcon was a McGuffin.
>Elements of magic are not...unless they are the object of a quest.

Got your Maltese Falcon right here:
http://www.btco.net/ghosts/Buildings/Falcon/falcon.html

>
>--Ted White
>