Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 18:58:34 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Take that Darth Vader, thwack! , was  Sith andbefore

> omni at omniphile.com 6/16/2005 6:35:58 PM >>>
>At 04:30 PM 6/16/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>> omni at omniphile.com 6/16/2005 4:15:06 PM >>>
>
>>>Unless the "refit" involved adding a seriously large "stores
module",
>>>there's no way an Apollo capsule would make a months long trip with

>>>a crew,
>>>even if they didn't kill each other...recycling only takes you just
so
>>far
>>>and then you have to make up the losses from somewhere, and the
>>>capsule
>>>wasn't designed for storage, just re-entry.  Even a full command
>>>module
>>>wouldn't have enough storage for the air, water and food needed.
>>>
>>>Talk about unbelievable "science" in your fiction...  ;-)
>>
>>My recollection is that White did the appropriate science.  He was a
>>clever writer.
>
>I haven't read it,

Hey it's short.  Not part of a series... in the words of Howard Waldrop
"a stand alone novel".  Give it a try.

mjw