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From: tim@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: James P. Hogan flame
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Date: Sun, 17-Jul-83 17:33:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 17 17:33:18 1983
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    It's a bit ridiculous to accuse someone of using bad science and
then go off into buzzword gibberish yourself.  This has been done
twice with James Hogan books recently, once with someone asking if a
temporal loop was the time equivalent of a black hole, the other
talking blithely about special relativity in a totally inappropriate
context.  If the science were real, then they'd be selling it, not
writing about it.  Give the writers a break.

    Long explanations of "how things work" in science fiction are a
pain anyway.  If the science works today, it'll be obsolete soon; if
it doesn't, then you're just wasting our time with nonsense.  Hogan
and Niven strike the balance here quite well, I think.

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