Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!mcnc!unc!tim From: tim@unc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: James P. Hogan flame Message-ID: <5573@unc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Jul-83 17:33:18 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.5573 Posted: Sun Jul 17 17:33:18 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 21:42:53 EDT References: sri-arpa.3120 Lines: 20 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. ______________________________________ The overworked keyboard of Tim Maroney duke!unc!tim (USENET) tim.unc@udel-relay (ARPA) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill