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From: tom@rlgvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Let's make a place for Robert Heinlein on the Space Shuttle
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Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 16:33:19 EDT
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WHAT!  Put Lucas in the same category (much less the same shuttle) as
Heinlein and Clarke!  No way!

The Star Wars saga may be entertaining, exciting, and cute, but they
are no justification for honoring the man in such a way.  I thought
the original proposals for Heinlein and Clarke were based on their
attempts at serious scientific fiction and their abilities to postulate
reasonable scientific achievments of the future and their consequences.
I thoroughly enjoyed Star Wars, but Ewoks, ineffective blasters (and
armor), crash-happy vehicles, magical Forces, some nice asteroid shots,
and good-guys versus bad-guys plots just don't make the grade.

If we must round out a trilogy, I say we exhume the body of Jules Verne,
and give him the ride.  Perhaps a burial in space ...

- Tom Beres
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