Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:52:29 -0400 From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: _Puppet Masters_ is set today To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> At 7/12/2007 09:14 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote: >The opening scene of Robert Heinlein's 1951 novel _Puppet Masters_ >is set today, July 12, 2007. > >It starts with a phone call, received by a phone in a jacket, >concerning observations made from the space station. That's just SF though...no way you could have a phone in a jacket, and what would hold a space station up there? -- Mike B. -- "Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." -- Mark Twain