To: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>, bsfsgeneral <bsfsgeneral at bsfs.org>, "gt-pfrc at ml.gt.org" <gt-pfrc at ml.gt.org> From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> Subject: [WSFA] Well, this is different Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 19:41:54 -0400 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> I've been deluged with sex spam lately. However, I've not seen *this* before: one who's first para is t fifty-eight Earth-years of age, her hundred and seventy-five centimeters remained slim, verging on gaunt, her skin clear and pale and only lightly lined. The unaided computer could have done as well, had it been worth the trouble of readjusting several circuits. All hands to flight posts. I've received an answer to my communications about this affair from an extremely high quarter. I'm small potatoes next to the rich on Earth, he replied blandly. Yes, yes, Langendijk sighed. However, at present there was only a straight-forward boost toward the first of the beacons. And the other Like most men on Demeter, he went clean-shaven and cropped his hair above the ears; it was straight, coarse, black with some white streaks, a last inheritance from his great-grandmother. Which is a logical non sequitur, actually. Brodersen's robot performed the same kind of task. But the efficiency was superb, a triumph as great as the cathedral at Chartres; nothing appeared but the dimmest glow streaming aft for a few kilometers, and the onward motion of the hull. And belle was born in Pennsylvania, he remembered. The room and furniture were to his taste, little of synth about them, mostly handmade of what materials were handy some seventy years ago, when the settlement on Demeter was about a generation old Now, had they not been spam, I'd be interested in talking to someone who's sending SF.... mark