Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!KFL From: KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Non carbon based life Message-ID: <3308@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 22:42:02 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3308 Posted: Fri Aug 16 22:42:02 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 04:49:35 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 9 From: Keith F. LynchForward's "Dragon's Egg" concerns beings made of neutronium and/or degenerate matter. Stapledon's "Star Maker" includes (among other things) beings that are stars, and beings that are galaxies. I believe that this is the first mention of such things (1937). This is also the book in which 'Dyson' spheres are first mentioned. ...Keith