From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 22:22:21 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Well, this is different
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:41 PM, mark whitroth at 5-cent.us [wsfa-forum]
<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> 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....

Someone likes Poul Anderson.

mjw