Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site denelcor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!qumix!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!denelcor!lmc From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: SF Writers in Footfall Message-ID: <105@denelcor.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 01:32:57 EDT Article-I.D.: denelcor.105 Posted: Sun Jul 14 01:32:57 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:05:50 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, Colorado Lines: 26 The SF writers who make up the "threat team" in Niven & Pournelle's new book _Footfall_ are: Robert & Virginia Anson Sherry Atkinson Nat Reynolds Joe Ransom Wade and Jane Curtis Bob Burnham Carol North (added later) Most obviously, The first are Robert (Anson) and Virginia Heinlein. Nat Reynolds and Wade Curtis write together, and both live in Los Angeles (if that's not enough of a clue, check out Curtis' response to the aliens' conditional surrender: "Nuke them till they glow, and then shoot then in the dark"). The remainder are not clear to me. The only other real clues are that Atkinson is pacififistic (non-paranoid, as Anson puts it). Bob Burnham has white hair and wears a gaudy vest, Ransom has a thick black mustache. Carol North could be Andre Norton, except that she is depicted as rather young. Ah, well, its fun guessing. Lyle McElhaney ...denelcor!lmc