Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!REM@MIT-MC From: REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: whom to send to space, SFiction and SFact Message-ID: <2338@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 09:32:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2338 Posted: Mon Jun 20 09:32:00 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jun-83 04:41:14 EDT Lines: 14 From: Robert Elton MaasI propose we submit the question "what science-fiction writer most derserves to get a ride on the shuttle" to SF-Lovers and let them decide. Meanwhile we can concentrate on non-fiction science people like Sagan. That way the debate over which sf writers have produced the best work lately won't intrude on our non-fiction discussins of space. Ok with others? Then we'll have two candidates, one fiction and one non-fiction, and we can either pick between them or suggest both be sent (I prefer the latter, after all the STS has a lot of extra unused crew space, only 5 now, room for how many I don't remember, and the balance of viewpoint should be good, the charm and wild fantasies and ideas of a fiction author combined with the realism of a non-fiction person).