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From: David_G._Opstad.osbunorth@Xerox.ARPA
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Subject: Re: was Einstein right?
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 11:40:25 EDT
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From: Opstad.osbunorth@Xerox.ARPA


  In reply to Mike Sellers' query about stories where humanity never
makes it out of the Solar System, I seem to recall that John W.
Campbell, Jr.'s short story _Twilight_ deals with humanity in the far
future having evolved into mental giants who have no hope because no FTL
methodology was ever discovered. Also, the method used in Forward's
_The_Flight_Of_The_Dragonfly_ to reach Barnard's Star is definitely
slower-than-light, more-or-less current technology. (This latter book
gets my vote for best SF novel of the last decade, by the way--it's been
a long time since I've so voraciously read a novel all the way through
with such an inane grin on my face...)
  
  Dave Opstad (Opstad.PA@Xerox.ARPA)